The Broadway production closed on Septemafter a 12-year run of 5,123 performances. On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, the night before the Off-Broadway premiere. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official 1996 opening. The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème.
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