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“Rent,” a Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical, with lyrics and music by Jonathan Larson, debuted in New York City on Feb. 13, 1996, at the New York Theatre Workshop before moving to Broadway, where it became the seventh-longest-running musical in Broadway history. Now it’s arrived in the western suburbs.

Based loosely on Puccini’s opera “La Boheme,” “Rent” is a modernized story that follows the lives of a group of Bohemians living in New York City’s East Village over the course of a year as they struggle with relationships, drugs, loss, love, creativity, AIDS and paying their “rent.”