Broadway prepared to say goodbye Sunday to "Rent," 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ages. "There's mixed emotions, but it's time," said Allan S. Gordon, one of its producers. The ...

They cheered, they cried and gave the show a standing ovation even before the first note was sung. Broadway said goodbye Sunday to "Rent," 12 years and 5,124 performances after it first became a rock musical with a message for theatergoers of all ...

Rent is set in late 1980s New York, from Christmas 1989 to New Year's Eve 1990. It's a rock opera that transposes Puccini's La Bohème from the Latin Quarter in Paris to the East Village, where bohemian friends live in an old factory threatened with demolition. Aids is now the big threat ...