Production of Rent

By all4spite

  • Start of Collaboration with Bill Aronson

  • End of Collaboration with Bill Aronson

  • New York Theatre Workshop

    • draft script

  • (Spring) $45, 000 Richard Rogers Development Grant + Michael Grief on director

  • (September) Casting for the first workshop begins

  • (Fall) Tim Weil hired as artistic director

  • (Fall) First NYTW Workshop

  • Larson writes eight new songs, revises others

  • (May) Lynn Thompson hired as Daramaturg

  • (October) Script Finalised

    Script finalised, now structured so the show is flashbacks from Angel’s funeral

  • (December) Reschedule

    Rent was scheduled to open but had to be pushed back to January 1996

  • (August) Casting for the production begins

    Casting for the production begins lasting four months and with almost a thousand actors auditioning