[ SECRET POST #4544 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4544 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think the best thing to sum this up is by watching Lindsay Ellis' video on the topic: "RENT - Look Pretty and Do As Little as Possible: A Video Essay". Another good one is the book that is mentioned on the video entitled, "Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America".

No one had ever seen a musical like this. The only musical I can think of that broke new ground by having LGBT characters in it was 1983's "La Cage aux Folles". However, the characters in "La Cage" didn't have AIDS, but instead it's more about self-identification iirc, hence the 11 o'Clock Number, "I Am What I Am". That musical won the Tony, beating Stephen Sondheim's overlooked-but-studied-in-theatre-appreciation-courses masterpiece, "Sunday in the Park with George" (it at least won a Pulitzer. That's better than a Tony in my book). Jerry Herman threw the biggest shade on Stephen Sondheim after accepting the win though by saying "a simple, hummable tune is still alive on Broadway".