Rent’s diverse and unconventional community is made up of impassioned and defiant individuals. Roger (ADAM PASCAL) is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend’s suicide. Despite his attraction, he is reluctant to start a new romance with his downstairs...
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Rent’s diverse and unconventional community is made up of impassioned and defiant individuals. Roger (ADAM PASCAL) is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend’s suicide. Despite his attraction, he is reluctant to start a new romance with his downstairs neighbor Mimi Marquez (ROSARIO DAWSON), an exotic dancer struggling with “baggage of her own.” Roger’s roommate Mark (ANTHONY RAPP) is a filmmaker trying to balance art and commerce. His girlfriend Maureen (IDINA MENZEL), a self-indulgent performance artist, recently left him for a lawyer named Joanne (TRACIE THOMS).
Also part of this close-knit circle is Tom Collins (JESSE L. MARTIN), a professor of philosophy who, after being mugged, is rescued by his soul mate, a high-spirited, street drummer, Angel Shunard (WILSON JERMAINE HEREDIA). Benny, (TAYE DIGGS), who alienated his friends after he married their landlord’s daughter, has reneged on his promise to provide rent-free artist space to his bohemian friends. Once a close friend, he is now viewed as the enemy, threatening them with eviction.
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