Now he hopes to recapture the mid-90s energy he remembers well for this latest project, which will debut on January 27. Veteran theater, film, and television producer Marc Platt has overseen a pair of TV-musical hits in recent years: Grease: Live and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Larson himself died before he could see his little musical become a global phenomenon, but his work will live on in an all-new filmed production of Rent on Fox. The smash-hit show taught an earlier generation lessons of compassion for and affinity to people of different sexualities, races, and genders while putting a humanizing face on the AIDS epidemic. But back in the 1990s, there was another musical rocking the theater world: Rent, Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of broke artists, drug addiction, and people living with (living with), not dying from disease. Thanks to Hamilton-the defining theater phenomenon of this decade-young fans will go through life with a sharper understanding of the politics that founded this country, as well as a potentially more relaxed attitude about which actors are “allowed” to play which roles.
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