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525,600. What is this number? No, it’s not a statistic. 525,600 Minutes… How do you measure a year? How about love? That is the question addressed repeatedly in Jonathan Larson’s musical RENT. RENT is based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, and has acquired almost a cult audience of Rentrats, Rentheads, Rentaholics, and other fanatics. As a member of this crowd, there is more I’d like to say than I do have time for, …showed first 75 words of 708 total…

…showed last 75 words of 708 total…he is with Collins, that Mimi is a dancer, or that a majority of the characters have AIDS. Everyone is treated as a human being. The only untolerated taboo is drug abuse, and even Mimi cleans up her act by the end of the show. RENT is about being young in New York, being brave and being scared. Being in love and being in trouble, viewing hopes for today and faith for tomorrow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**