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The musical "Rent" is (c) Jonathan Larson / Dreamworks. Please feel free to correct me if something is wrong or missing.

My third little parody on RENT (sadly not much more than an insider tipp in my homecountry). The inspiration and urge to draw this was just too strong.


From left to right you are supposed to see Mimi, Maureen, Mark, Joanne, Roger, Benny, then Angel and Collins. I oriented myself on the look of the first stage show cast, at least I tried it with the photos I could find. Perhaps there are some smaller faults in the details.

CAUTION SMALL SPOILERS ABOUT THE STORY
I love RENT, it really deserves its success. But I wonder ... did it succeed especially because of its many layers and its darker sides, or rather *despite* this things? Imho you can discuss and analyse RENT far more than many other musicals. (But if a "starter" is reading this - don't get afraid now, RENT is also no high-class-arts-niveau bomb!)

*The* message of the play is probably "No day but today". You can interpret that already in more than one way. But then there are also more than a few "smaller" messages from almost every character, and every of those gets its important spotlight moment.
Angel sings the energetic and optimistic "Today for you, tomorrow for me" about her potential and future. I think many of us found at least details in the song identify-worthy ... - if not with the whole song. Buuut ... somehow this look into the future "clashes" with the big message for me! On the one side we have "Live today as it were your last day", on the other "Live for your future".

But perhaps I am interpreting something wrong, and / or there is a theory which can connect both messages in a very harmonious way.

EDIT: If you want to, you can check out this discussion about the topic: [link]