Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History

by Jonathan Larson · 1996

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The heart may freeze, or it can burn. The pain will ease and I can learn. There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as, my last.

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Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss

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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

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There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way. NO DAY but TODAY

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I'm more of a man then you'll ever be, I'm more of a woman then you'll ever get.

I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

When you’re dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you’re not alone

but i know blue only blue lonely blue without you

Just don't let go or you may drown.

She always said how lucky were to be friends... but it was us baby who were the lucky ones

What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away?

There is no future, there is no past, I live this moment as my last

Give in to love, or live in fear

And when you're living in America At the end of the millennium You're what you own So I own not a notion I escape and ape content I don't own an emotion - I rent

Trusting desire, starting to learn Walking through fire without a burn Clinging a shoulder, a leap begins Stinging and older, asleep on pins

I've gotta get out of here

Why are entire years strewn on the cutting room floor of memory? When single frames of one magic night forever flicker in close up on the 3D Imax of my mind

December 24, 9pm Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my usual shit.

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In these pages, Rent offers what most theater books can' a chance to step behind the curtain and feel the electricity of a stage phenomenon as it unfolds. Rent has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway and taken America by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for drama, as well as four 1996 Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book, and Best Score for a Musical, Rent captures the heart and spirit of a generation, refleting it onstage through the emotion of its stirring words and music, and the energy of its young cast. Now, for the first time, Rent comes to life on the page -- through vivid color photographs, the full libretto, and an utterly compelling behind-the-scenes oral history of the show's creation. Here is the exclusive and absolutely complete companion to Rent, told in the voices of the extraordinary talent behind its the actors, the