With the production, Rent becomes the latest, and, with its poignant depiction of a community decimated by the then-untreatable AIDS, perhaps most unexpected stage musical to air as a special TV event, following a recent raft of such musicals that have tended more toward late Golden Age Broadway or light family fare ( The Sound of Music, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Wiz, Peter Pan, Hairspray). This Sunday, Greif’s involvement with Rent continues: He’s the stage director of Fox’s live TV event (Alex Rudzinski serves as the TV director).
Left to fulfill Larson’s dream, and help build his legacy, his collaborators never failed him.Ĭhief among them was, and is, Greif, the director of the original workshop, the Off Broadway production and the lines-down-the-block Broadway staging. In one of the theater’s most heart-rending true-life stories, the playwright-composer died after suffering an aortic dissection on the morning of Rent‘s first Off Broadway preview, a horror that has draped the Rent legend in both tragedy and, in a very real way, triumph ever since. Larson himself lived to see little of it. 2023 Premiere Dates For New & Returning Series On Broadcast, Cable & Streaming
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