27 Actors You Want to See in Rent Live

Fox has another live musical on the horizon: Rent. We asked our social media followers to sound off on their ideal casting for Rent.

Flip through the gallery below to see who our viewers want to see in the live remake:

27 Actors You Want to See in Rent Live

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We asked, you answered: Our followers shared their dream cast for the upcoming live TV musical.
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Jeremy_Jordan_HR — Jeremy Jordan

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Nicole_Scherzinger_HR — Nicole Scherzinger

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Monica Simoes

Lea_Michele_HR — Lea Michele

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Amber Riley HR — Amber Riley

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Dear_Evan_Hansen_Opening_Night_Party_29_HR — Kristolyn Lloyd

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Monica Simoes

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Monica Simoes

Wayne_Brady_Portrait_HR — Wayne Brady

Layne Dixon

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Monica Simoes

Christopher Jackson HR — Christopher Jackson

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The project joins Fox's live adaptation of A Christmas Story, which will premiere this December. NBC also recently announced plans for a live presentation of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Read: 20 YEARS LATER, ORIGINAL RENT CAST REMEMBER AUDITIONS, BACKSTAGE MEMORIES AND MAKING HISTORY

The musical, inspired by Puccini's opera La Bohème, follows a group of struggling artists in New York City's East Village in the mid 1990s. Throughout the course of a year, the group experiences love and loss against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis.

Rent launched the careers of such performers as Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, and Daphne Rubin-Vega.

27 Actors You Want to See in Rent Live

27 Actors You Want to See in Rent Live

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