Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway poster
Director Michael John Warren

Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway

Tagline: Rent's final performance on Broadway.

Release Date: 2008-11-21

Duration: 165 minutes

Synopsis

Sex Drugs and Aids... This controversial musical follows the lives of recovering addicts and people dying of aids in 80s new York in-between two Christmases after Collins is Involved in a race attack and left on the street to die he is saved by angel a trans woman and drag queen as their relationship builds the scary reality creeps in. In the lot Mark and Roger struggling artists can't afford to make RENT as relentless landlord and former friend Benny makes life hell for them all the while Marks ex girlfriend Maureen is protesting the eviction of the homeless on that same lot and her new girlfriend Joanne handles the law side of things. Finally Mimi is a 19 year old in love with Roger but she is addicted to cocaine and the former heroine addict wants nothing to do with her after his last girlfriend committed suicide.

Casting

  • Tracie Thoms
    Joanne Jefferson
  • Jesse L. Martin
    Himself (uncredited)
  • Anthony Rapp
    Himself (uncredited)
  • Renée Elise Goldsberry
    Mimi Marquez
  • Daphne Rubin-Vega
    Herself (uncredited)
  • Jay Wilkison
    Gordon / The Man / Mr. Grey / Ensemble
  • Wilson Jermaine Heredia
    Himself (uncredited)
  • Will Chase
    Roger Davis
  • Eden Espinosa
    Maureen Johnson
  • Gwen Stewart
    Mrs. Jefferson / Woman with Bags / Ensemble