Tomorrow evening I will be taking a bus with my fellow Discover New York classmates to see the Broadway play, RENT. This will be the second time I am seeing this show. As a requirement of the Discover New York class, every student was to pick a play, one out of four choices, and go see it. They are making us do this so we can first hand become apart of NY culture and travel to the city.
RENT is about a group of Bohemian artists struggling with love, success, and AIDS in the East Village of New York City in the late 80s. The play follows the lives of eight characters who all meet on Christmas and change each other's lives within the next year. The characters are Roger, Mimi, Mark, Maureen, Joanne, Tom Collins, Angel, and Benny. Roger is a songwriter who has shut out the world ever since his girlfriend committed suicide upon learning she was HIV positive. Roger is also HIV positive because of his girlfriend. Rogers's new love Mimi who is also HIV positive and a drug addict. Roger's roommate Mark who is a struggling filmmaker, his ex-girlfriend Maureen who left him to be with a woman. Joanne, a lawyer, Maureen's new girlfriend. Tom Collins, an HIV-positive college professor, Collins's lover, Angel, a transvestite with AIDS, and Benny, who is the former roommate to Roger, Mark, Collins, and Maureen and now owner of the building.
Although the plot sounds crazy and hard to keep track of, this is one of the most amazing shows I have seen on Broadway. I guess you just have to see it to love and understand it.
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