Revolution Rent

Matt Roush says...

A quarter-century after it first rocked the theater world, the late Jonathan Larsen’s groundbreaking musical Rent continues to make waves. That was especially true in 2014-15, when the show hit Havana, Cuba, as the first Broadway show staged there by a U.S. company in more than 50 years. A poignant documentary follows the show’s director, Andy Señor Jr., a son of Cuban exiles who returns to his family’s ancestral home to assemble a local cast to embody the musical’s message of love, unity and acceptance. (See the full review.)

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