Tony Award winner Idina Menzel, back on Broadway in the new musical Redwood, and Tony-winning producer Jeffrey Seller will be featured on Playbill's Instagram Live April 29 beginning at 4:45 PM ET. Make sure you're following @playbill so you can follow along.
Menzel and Seller will join Playbill Social Media Director Jeffrey Vizcaíno to celebrate the 29th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, which opened on Broadway April 29, 1996, at the Nederlander Theatre.
Vizcaíno will broadcast live from the Playbill offices in Manhattan, while Menzel and Seller will join the discussion from the former's dressing room at the Nederlander, where Redwood currently plays (it's also the same dressing room the Wicked star had when she created the role of Maureen in Jonathan Larson's Rent).
In addition to Rent, the trio will discuss Redwood's Broadway journey as well as Seller's new memoir, Theater Kid.
Menzel's Broadway credits include Rent, Aida, Wicked, If/Then, and Redwood. Seller is the Tony-winning producer of Rent, Private Lives, Avenue Q, In the Heights, Hamilton, and more. His new book, Theater Kid, is available from Simon & Schuster.
Directed by Michael Greif, Rent opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre April 29, 1996, following previews that began April 16. The musical received 10 1996 Tony nominations, subsequently winning four, including Best Musical. Larson's work also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After 16 previews and 5,123 regular performances, the production played its final show September 7, 2008.
Set in Manhattan in the 1990s and inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème,
the hit musical follows a group of young East Village artists,
performers, and philosophers as they struggle through the hardships of
poverty, societal discord, and the AIDS epidemic in the search for life,
love, and art.
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