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''five-hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear,''<br />

''five-hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes,''<br />

A modern-day [[Rock Opera]] adaptation of Puccini's ''[[La Boheme]]'', written by Johnathan Larson (who [[Author Existence Failure|died]] before the show was staged), RENT centers around a group of New York bohemians in the early nineties, including:

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* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Angel. An unusual case, as it isn't because of androgyny, but because Angel is male-bodied, dating a gay man, dresses like a drag queen, acts femininely, and is hinted to prefer the pronoun "she". Her actual gender is never explicitly stated, so interpretations of her range from [[Cross Dresser]] to [[Transgender|transfeminine]] to everything in between.

* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: Mimi is said to be Latina, but since her first actress was half-black, other portrayals have ranged from fully-black to even white.

** Also, many characters' names are modernizations of their counterparts from La Boheme.

* [[The Messiah]]: Both Angel and Mark.

* [[Mister Muffykins]]: Evita, Benny's wife's dog (at least the yappy part).

* [[The Movie]]: <small>FEATURING</small>: Most of the original Broadway cast members!

* [[The Musical]]: Rent is [[Your Mileage May Vary|arguably]] the late parts of [[The Eighties]] and the early parts of [[The Nineties]] condensed and put to an [[Awesome Music (Sugar Wiki)|awesome soundtrack]].

* [[No Bisexuals]]: Maureen falls prey to this, being constantly referred to as [[Ho Yay|a lesbian]], when she is actually bisexual. It seems she just mostly prefers women.

* [[Original Cast Precedent]]: Mark and Mimi are stated to be respectively Jewish and Hispanic, but the races of the other characters are pretty much determined by those of the original cast members despite race being mostly incidental. Thus, Joanne, Collins and Benny are always black; Angel always Hispanic; and Maureen and Roger always white.

** International professional productions may differ, and so may amateur productions. All-white (with the occasional [[Token Minority]]) amateur productions of 'RENT' are not rare occurrences.

** Subverted in the Hollywood Bowl production in Maureen's case, as she was played by the Hawaiian/Filipina Nicole Scherzinger.

* [[The Power of Rock]]: How they {{spoiler|save Mimi}}.

** Along with [[The Power of Love]].

* [[Precision F-Strike]]:

{{quote|'''Joanne:''' This is weird.