The Sessions features videos of the Rentcast recording songs at Sony Studios, as well as video interviews with cast members. Pictures are also available on the website.The film version of Rent, which opened nationwide on November 23rd, received a mixed critical reception but won the #5 spot in that weekend's box office.
Sources in a Reuters report noted that the opening fell below a
hoped-for opening of $20-$25 million, but that positive exit poll
numbers were a good sign for the film.Rent, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), is a Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production; it was released by Sony Pictures. The original cast--Idina Menzel,
Taye Diggs, Wilson
Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and
Anthony Rapp--is intact but for Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker;
their respective roles of Mimi and Joanne are played by Rosario
Dawson and Tracie Thoms.
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rentis
set in New York's East Village, where a group of artists
love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure,
illness and death. The La Boheme-based
show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its
opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for
Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months
before the show opened. It has since run for almost 4,000 performances.
To watch AOL's Sessions feature on Rent, visit this link.