Fox has unveiled plans to make Rent into its next live musical.
Producer Marc Platt has announced that Rent, one of the 90’s most enduring LGBT musicals is to get the Live TV experience. The show was written by Jonathan Larson who died in 1996 the morning of the first preview performance of Rentย Off Broadway. His estate and the Mr Platt will produce the show together.
Rent is a modern take on the Puccini opera La Bohรจme and is a story of young impoverished artists overcoming adversity and gentrification to save their creative space. In Rent, the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 80s and 90s replacesย tuberculosis fromย La Bohรจme’s era.ย The musical has won numerous awards including Tonys, a Pulitzer Prize and a Drama Desk Award.
The show is planned for broadcast in 2018.
Marc Platt has also produced Wicked, Into The Woods, andย La La Land.
