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Rent is a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical. It opened in New York City on April 29, 1996 at the Nederlander Theatre, and is currently playing on Broadway as the seventh-longest-running Broadway musical (as of March 1, 2006). Based on Puccini's opera La boh?, the musical centers on a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Alphabet City in the early 1990s, under the shadow of AIDS.

Rent was one of the first Broadway musicals to clearly feature gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender characters. It is also noted for its ethnically diverse cast, which includes many racial minorities in its ensemble and leading roles. Rent is considered revolutionary for bringing controversial topics and counterculture to a traditionally conservative medium, and is credited with increasing the popularity of musical theater in the younger generation.[2] Many critics have also mentioned how the show speaks to Generation X the same way that HAIR spoke to the flower generation, calling it "a rock opera for our time, a 'Hair' for the 90's