Rent opened on Broadway 26 years ago today

The best art has a timeless quality. Aspects of the piece may wither with time, but if the soil from which art blossoms is truthful, great work can last centuries. Take, for example, Giacomo Puccini's La bohme. When composing his tale of the Parisian bohemian scene of the 1800s, I doubt that Puccini realized that his work would perfectly parallel the AIDs crisis in the 80s.  — Read the rest