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Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal on ‘Rent’ and Reuniting on Stage
Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal talk about the upcoming 30th anniversary of "Rent" and what a revival of Jonathan Larson's rock opera should look like.
Their status as one of musical theater’s most recognizable duos was part of the inspiration for their latest collaboration, “Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: Celebrating Friendship & History,” a 10-night residency that’s running at midtown Manhattan’s 54 Below through Aug. 17. In addition to several songs from “Rent” — “Light My Candle,” “What You Own” and “Seasons of Love” among them — they perform music that inspired them while they were 20somethings in the late Jonathan Larson’s rock opera about young, broke artists struggling to survive in Manhattan’s East Village under the shadow of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Rapp and Pascal spoke to Variety after a recent show about reuniting on stage, the ill-fated 2005 “Rent” movie (which starred most of the original cast), as well as their optimism and disillusionment with the state of Broadway.
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