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Rent Is Back
The groundbreaking musical will return to NYC in 2011
The cast of Rent (Photo: broadway.tv)
According to the New York Post‘s Michael Riedel, Rent, which closed in 2008 after 5,124 performances, is coming back to New York in 2011. Says Riedel, “The show, which will be staged by the original director, Michael Greif, will open at off-Broadway’s New World Stages in June, after the Tony Awards. It will be given a new production, with a different set and cast of fresh-faced unknowns.”
The new “unknowns” will hope to have the same success as the original “unknowns,” including Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, who are now all big stars in the theater world. But outside of that, not much else is known, other than how odd it’ll be seeing (the pun-less) Alphabet City and the Lower East Side as an undesirable location.