{"id":68,"date":"2008-01-17T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/rent-is-ready-to-close-on-broadway\/"},"modified":"2008-01-17T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:21:36","slug":"rent-is-ready-to-close-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/17\/rent-is-ready-to-close-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Rent&#8217; is ready to close on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p _extended=\"true\"><strong _extended=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/shows_rent07.jpg\" alt=\"Rent\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) <\/strong>&#8212; &#8220;No show runs forever&#8221; was one of the more astute observations of Broadway director-choreographer Michael Bennett, the man behind &#8220;A Chorus Line,&#8221; itself a model of longevity.<\/p>\n<p><!--startclickprintexclude--><!-- PURGE: \/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/01\/17\/theater.rentclosing.ap\/art.rent.ap.jpg --><!-- KEEP --><\/p>\n<p _extended=\"true\" id=\"cnnImgChngr\" class=\"cnnImgChngr\"><!----><!--===========IMAGE============--><!--===========\/IMAGE===========--><\/p>\n<p _extended=\"true\"><!--===========CAPTION==========-->&#8220;Rent,&#8221; which opened in 1996, will close its Broadway run in June.<!--===========\/CAPTION=========--><\/p>\n<p _extended=\"true\" class=\"cnnWireBoxFooter\">Bennett&#8217;s theater truism was re-enforced this week with the announcement that the pop-rock musical &#8220;Rent&#8221; will close June 1 after a 12-year run, 5,012 performances and an assortment of prizes and awards, including the Tony and Pulitzer &#8212; not to mentions grosses of over $280 million.<\/p>\n<p _extended=\"true\" class=\"cnnWireBoxFooter\">More at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/01\/17\/theater.rentclosing.ap\/index.html\">CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p _extended=\"true\" class=\"cnnWireBoxFooter\"><strong><font color=\"#3366ff\"><em>Note: Rent will be in Chicago from February 12th &#8211; 17th at the Cadillac Palace Theater. More info on the <\/em><\/font><\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.broadwayinchicago.com\/shows_dyn.php?cmd=display_current&amp;display_showtag=RENT_08\"><strong><em><font color=\"#ff0000\">Broadway in Chicago website<\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; &#8220;No show runs forever&#8221; was one of the more astute observations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afchicago.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}