They are back:
the original Broadway cast of Rent for one
performance only--April 24--to celebrate
the 10th anniversary of the long-running Jonathan Larson
musical. A limited number of $20 same-day lottery tickets
will be available for the performance, but most
tickets will be priced at $1,000-$2,500 and
will include a postperformance party at Cipriani 42nd
Street.
The performance
will be a benefit for three nonprofit groups--Friends
in Deed, the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts
Foundation, and New York Theatre Workshop, which is
where Rent originated before moving to Broadway
in April 1996.
Among the cast
members scheduled to appear are Taye Diggs, Wilson
Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam
Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Larson
died of a heart condition in January 1996, just as
Rent was to open off-Broadway at New York
Theatre Workshop. He was 35. (AP)