![]() Five bucks says that there were no fewer than four girls - or at least three girls and a gay - in your high school who could've done all eight minutes of "La Vie Boheme A" from start to finish with different voices for every character with very little prompting.ĭoes she have any evidence? Schulman makes her case in 1998's Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, a nonfiction work of theatrical criticism that examines which stories New York's theater world was telling at the time, how those stories were being told, and who stood to profit off of all of the above. It ran for 12 years and won a bunch of awards, including the Tony for Best Musical. ![]() It's about artists, love, and shitty landlords all set in New York City's East Village amidst the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s. ![]() What's RENT? RENT is a 1996 Broadway musical by the late Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's La boheme. ![]() Buried towards the bottom of Brooklyn drag legend Charlene Incarnate's recent piece for Out about how "Angel's Gender Identity Is RENT's Most Enduring Mystery" is a short little aside that reads: "queer author Sarah Schulman has suggested with compelling evidence that the characters are plagiarized from her 1990 novel, People in Trouble." Did that line leave you confused? Don't worry. ![]()
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