San Jose Strip Clubs: Review: ‘Rent’ rocks
Larson deftly captured the ephemeral nature of life in his music and lyrics and this Broadway hit is made all the moving because of his own tragic back story. His own life echoes his characters fears because he himself died young and poor and unknown on the eve of “Rent’s” premiere. He never lived to bask in the glory of his creativity, just like the bohemian hipsters he created.
That piquancy animates this lively revival, which traces the journey of Mark (Spencer Williams) the filmmaker, his best pal Roger (Brian Palac), the musician desperately trying to write one last song before
he succumbs to AIDS, and the waifish stripper Mimi (Megan Woodruff), who also suffers from the disease but is determined to have no regrets about life. They all look up to Angel (the magnetic Adam Barry), the drag queen diva with a heart of gold, and few of them can resist the thrall of the ego monster performance artist Maureen (the formidable Jacqui Elliott).