"Rent," an East Village rock version of Puccini’s opera “La Bohème,” opened Off Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop in 1996.
The show transferred to Broadway on April 16, 1996, at the Nederlander Theater. It went on to win four Tony Awards, including best musical, and the Pulitzer Prize."Rent," which cost $240,000 to put up downtown, has gone on to gross more than $280 million on Broadway and another $330 million on the road. Productions have been mounted on six continents.
The musical "Rent" will close after its evening performance on June 1, 2008, making it the seventh-longest-running Broadway show in history.
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