Rent Film Cast Featured on Live with Regis and Kelly, Oct. 13

By: Oct. 10, 2005
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The cast of the film version of Rent, which will open in wide release on November 23rd, will sit down for a chat with Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa on "Live with Regis and Kelly" on October 13th.  The popular morning talk show airs from 9 to 10 AM EST on WABC-TV Channel 7 (check local listings).

In addition to discussing the highly-anticipated film, they will perform a Rent song.  Charlize Theron, soon to be seen in North Country, and Rev Run of MTV's "Run's House" will also be featured on the show.

Rent, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), will be released by Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios. The original cast--Menzel, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp--is intact but for Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker; their respective roles of Mimi and Joanne will be played by Rosario Dawson and Thoms.
 
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is set in late-90's New York (updated in the film) in the East Village, where a group of artists love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure, illness and death. The La Boheme-based show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months before the show opened. It has since run over 3,900 performances.

To learn more about the Rent film (and to access the blog), visit Rent">www.sonypictures.com/movies/Rent.


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