RENT performance with original and current cast - 62nd Tony Awards (2008)

I love the musical RENT.

I first saw the UK touring production starring Adam Rickett in Manchester, with very little idea what the show was about, but was enthralled from the first note until the last, spending much of the show fighting back tears.

For some reason the show still provokes the same reaction. I even like the film version. RENT Remixed we don't talk about...

I bought the Broadway cast recording and I probably listening to something or other of RENT pretty much every day. If there is one musical I know well, it is RENT.

So it was good to see the original cast - Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Wilson Jermaine Heredia et al - join the current Broadway cast for a tribute to Jonathan Larson's masterpiece at this year's Tony Awards.