Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tune Up #1
2. Voice Mail #1
3. Tune Up #2
4. Rent - Various Artists
5. You Okay Honey?
6. Tune Up #3
7. One Song Glory
8. Light My Candle - Various Artists
9. Voice Mail #2
10. Today 4 U
11. You'll See
12. Tango: Maureen
13. Life Support
14. Out Tonight - Various Artists
15. Another Day - Various Artists
16. Will I?
17. On The Street
18. Santa Fe
19. I'll Cover You - Various Artists
20. We're Okay
21. Christmas Bells
22. Over The Moon
23. La Vie Boheme
24. I Should Tell You
25. La Vie Boheme B - Various Artists

Disc 2:

1. Seasons Of Love - Various Artists
2. Happy New Year
3. Voice Mail #3
4. Happy New Year B
5. Take Me Or Leave Me - Various Artists
6. Seasons Of Love B
7. Without You
8. Voice Mail #4
9. Contact
10. I'll Cover You (Reprise)
11. Halloween
12. Goodbye Love
13. What You Own
14. Voice Mail #5
15. Finale
16. Your Eyes
17. Finale B - Various Artists
18. Seasons Of Love - Original Broadway Cast "Rent", Stevie Wonder

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3816 in Music
• Released on: 1999-03-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Soundtrack
• Running time: 126 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Into Broadway's creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon's helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way.

Transposing Puccini's 100-year-old opera La Bohème into modern day Bohemia (19th century Paris's Left Bank becomes late 20th century New York's East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt vivid characters and scenes that bring Avenue A as close as it will ever come to 42nd Street. And by telling a socially relevant story of living without the guarantee of a future (renting, that is), Larson does his own little bit to define an X'ed generation. At worst, Rent is the Hair of the 90s.

For the majority of us who won't be seeing Rent any time soon, the Original Cast Recording is more than just an after-show souvenir. Well-packaged with a complete libretto, the two-CD set is a worthwhile album separate of live performance. Full of songs that are funny and catchy, inspiring and touching, smart and hip and not overly sentimental, Rent mixes show-tune pop with elements of rock, R&B, dance, gospel, and tango to make one of the best albums of the year--certainly the best rock opera in decades. La vie bohème, indeed. --Roni Sarig

Customer Reviews

RENT RENT RENT REEEEEENT RENT
This is probably THE best musical I have ever seen on stage ever (mind you, I haven't seen IDINA in Wicked yet, but I have seen Wicked, so this is saying something...) Loads of my friends didn't get why me and my friend were so in love with it until they saw it on stage. Now they listen to it all the time like we do. If you are open minded, and willing to listen to it all the way through to get the story, you'll get RENT fever too. Its phenomenal. Moo.

Fantastic
Having only ever read about Rent and hearing how great it is from friends, i decide to buy the original cast recording.

I got it Thursday of last week and have listened to it about five times and each time i hear something different.
This has got to be one of the greatest things ive ever listened to.
And when the film opens in the Uk ill be the first in line to watch, maybe its the only way I'l ever get to see it.

different!
i had to listen to this a few times for it to sink in. now i listen to it nearly all the time!its one of these musicals that you can sing along to watever mood you're in. theres a song for everyone. i cant describe it, you either love it or you hate it. its just so different. it needs to be heard!i would recommend it definately!