#TBT: Playbill: RENT: May 1996
Sometimes when you see a brand new show you can tell it is going to be a success. Other times - rarely - you can just tell a brand new show will be a game-changing phenomenon. When I saw RENT the first time, it was only a few performances old. It wasn't sold out; there was no stand-by line; there was no lottery line. But I still knew that what I was seeing was going to change musical theater as we knew it.How co…