No Day but Today: Look Back at the Original Broadway Cast of Rent

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Photo Features No Day but Today: Look Back at the Original Broadway Cast of Rent The Jonathan Larson rock musical played its final performance on the Great White Way 10 years today on September 7, 2008.

By Hannah Vine

September 07, 2018

Rent opened on Broadway in April 1996 and ran for over 5,000 performances.

The cast included Gilles Chiasson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Rodney Hicks, Kristen Lee Kelly, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Aiko Nakasone, Timothy Britten Parker, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gwen Stewart, Byron Utley, and Fredi Walker.

The musical garnered 10 Tony Award nominations, winning four. It also took home the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Read: 27 Actors You Want to See in Rent Live

After 5,123 performances, the show took its final bow September 7, 2008.

Flip through photos of the original cast below:

Rent on Broadway

Anthony Rapp and the company — Rent on Broadway

*Rent* opened at The Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.
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Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp

Joan Marcus/Carol Rosegg

Daphne Rubin-Vega

Joan Marcus/Carol Rosegg

Adam Pascal and Daphne Rubin-Vega

Joan Marcus/Carol Rosegg

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