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My favorite Broadway show is gonna play in Taiwan next Feb.

Both the story and the music are spellbinding.

The following information clearly decribed the show:

"It was Jonathan Larson's rock musical retelling of the "La Bohème" story, but relocated to AIDS-era East Village, New York. A penniless songwriter's love for a young woman grows even as illness begins to consume her. The poet Rodolfo is now punk rocker Roger. Tubercular Mimi is now an AIDS-infected dancer at an S&M nightclub. Painter Marcello is now aspiring filmmaker Mark Cohen, and so forth. The ending is transformed from the opera, but the theme of love striving to endure beyond all obstacles remains.

Inspired by Puccini's La Boheme, Rent is a musical that explores the
lives of a community of young New Yorkers as they struggle with the
soaring hopes and tough realities of today. The contemporary music of
Rent spans generational boundaries with influences of rock, blues,
gospel, soul and tango.

Rent was rare among Broadway musicals in that it featured
some of the first clearly gay and lesbian characters on stage. While a
commonly-held stereotype is of a higher proportion of gay people in
theater, almost every previous production which dealt with such issues
had generally been relegated to off-Broadway venues (an exception is
La Cage aux Folles).

The musical Rent has been mentioned elsewhere in pop culture,
including (but not limited to) the cartoons The Simpsons, Family Guy,
the 2004 movie Team America: World Police, the puppet musical Avenue
Q, the off-Broadway satiric review Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back and
the television show "Friends".















In 1996, Rent won Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score. Actor Wilson Jermaine Heredia won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Angel.

Additionally, actors Adam Pascal, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Idina Menzel were nominated (but did not win) in the Leading Actor, Leading Actress, and Featured Actress in a Musical categories (for their portrayals of Roger, Mimi, and Maureen, respectively). The show itself was nominated for, but did not win, Tonys for its lighting design (Blake Burba), choreography (Marlies Yearby), and direction (Michael Greif)."

You can get more information from Wikipedia:Rent(musical)
You can also learn more from its official webstie listed on the upper right column of my blog.

The ticket information:年代售票

It's somehow not the fully original performance since Karen Mo is gonna play Mimi this time, but other casts remain the the same, anyway I'll have my third time Rent to enjoy singing with players as well as to reminisce my memory of NYC.