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Musical Analysis Of The Play 'Rent' By Jonathon Larson

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Rent. Also can be used to describe something torn. No better description for this musical. Written by Jonathon Larson, Rent is a musical, based on Giacomo Puccini’s italian opera, La Boheme, which centers on a group of friends in New York’s East Village in 1989 when an epidemic of HIV/AIDS was spreading around the US, affecting the whole friend group, whether it be from having it or from having a loved one who has it. In this paper, I will be examining how the themes and genre of this play turned movie shows the belief system of both the time and the belief system held by the creator, Jonathon Larson. Larson had finished writing Rent around 1993, and had originally debut in a workshop he was attending. Rents first debut was
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