Video: 'Seasons of Love/La Vie Boheme'

(Tuesday, February 13, 1996) — The rock musical Rent, by Jonathan Larson and loosely based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, opened tonight off-Broadway at the New York Theater Workshop.

Rent would to Broadway’s then-under-renovation Nederlander Theatre on 41st Street and open on Apr. 29, 1996.