Things better left unsaid

Rent Filming for Nationwide, Cinematic Broadcast to Begin Aug. 20

By Andrew Gans
August 19, 2008

The Aug. 20 performance of the landmark, Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, which is currently playing its final weeks of a 12-year-run at the Nederlander Theatre, will be filmed.

A Columbia Pictures spokesperson confirmed to Playbill.com that nine cameras will capture the 8 PM performance of the Tony Award-winning Jonathan Larson musical. Those same cameras will also record the show's final performance on Sept. 7.

A composite of the best performances from those two evenings — including what will likely be emotional moments from the final Broadway show — will subsequently be broadcast in movie theatres nationwide. Audiences around the country will have the chance to view the Broadway production of Rent Sept. 24 and 25 (evening screenings) and Sept. 27 and 28 (afternoon screenings).

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"Rent" Film Star Thoms to Join Broadway Production of Larson Musical

By Andrew Gans
July 22, 2008

Tracie Thoms, who played Joanne in the 2005 "Rent" film, will join the Broadway production of that Pulitzer Prize-winning Jonathan Larson musical.

Thoms, Variety reports, will step into the role she played on film — Joanne Jefferson — beginning July 26 at the Nederlander Theatre. The singing actress will stay with the production through its final performance on Sept. 7.

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