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Fox has finally announced that its next live TV musical will be the 1996 Broadway hit, Rent.
It is follow-up to Grease Live based on the 1978 cult classic, which starred John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning rock musical was written by Jonathan Larson, who died suddenly before 'Rent' opened Off- Broadway in 1996.
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The play centres around the story of a group of impoverished young artistes struggling to survive in New York's East Village in the days of the Bohemian Alphabet City under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
The original cast included Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Adam Pascal, Daphne-Rubin-Vega, Idina Menzel Anthony Rapp, Jesse L. Martin and Taye Diggs.
The story was adapted for the big-screen in 2005, which was directed by Chris Columbus.
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