The demo for “Light My Candle,” the sexually charged first meeting between the heroin-addicted exotic dancer Mimi (Daphne Rubin-Vega) and the grieving musician Roger (Adam Pascal), is what convinced NYTW artistic director Jim Nicola to embark on the project in 1992. In advance of the gala, Rolling Stone is exclusively publishing four never-before released demo tracks for Rent dating from 19, including “Light My Candle” and Larson’s vocals on “La Vie Boheme,” “Seasons of Love,” and “Finale.” Harris, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Annaleigh Ashford, and Neil Patrick Harris. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Rent, the New York Theater Workshop (NYTW) - which staged the original workshop version of Rent - is staging a virtual fundraiser gala on March 2nd, featuring many of the original NYTW cast members as well as such musical theater luminaries as Jeremy O. Written by Jonathan Larson, who tragically died before Rentopened to widespread acclaim off- Broadway, the musical was revolutionary for not only depicting, but celebrating, the lives of marginalized youth who had never before had their stories told on Broadway, winning multiple Tonys and a Pulitzer, catapulting songs like “Seasons of Love” and “La Vie Boheme” into the zeitgeist and kickstarting the careers of Anthony Rapp, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, and Jesse L. Before there was Be More Chill, before there was Spring Awakening, before teens were swiping on purple eyeliner and lipsynching to Beetlejuice’s “Dead Mom” on TikTok, there was Rent.The iconic rock musical was a multicultural paean to the lives of impoverished musicians, filmmakers, philosopher-poets, kinksters, runaways, and junkies struggling to survive in the then-squalid Alphabet City area of Manhattan’s East Village, against the backdrop of the HIV/ AIDS crisis.
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