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RENT is a Broadway Musical, and the winner of the 4 1996 Tony awards, including Best Musical, Score, book, and Actor.  It also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Best American Drama.
 
RENT is a Broadway Musical, and the winner of the 4 1996 Tony awards, including Best Musical, Score, book, and Actor.  It also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Best American Drama.
 
The Musical has become very popular among fans of Musicals, but is also very controversial among many people.
 
The Musical has become very popular among fans of Musicals, but is also very controversial among many people.
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The plot and much of the detail is borrowed directly from Giacomo Puccini's famous 1896 opera ''La Boheme'', set in Paris, which focused on the disease consumption ([[tuberculosis]]).  In Larson's version, AIDS takes the place of consumption.
    
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
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==sources==
 
==sources==
 
http://www.musicalsonline.com/rent/awards.htm
 
http://www.musicalsonline.com/rent/awards.htm
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