For those of you who have helped so far thanks. I've gotton so many Ideas this paper is starting to turn out. If you have time also I am puting my plot synopsis below this. Tell me if I have left anything major out that would make it a totaly different show if it were not in it. For instance, I don't have every phone message in this, also I don't have We're Okay synopsis in it. I don't think I will be talking about We're Okay, but if I do I will add that in.
My Synopsis of the Rent Plot
The story of Rent goes like this. Mark and Roger are in there apartment on Christmas Eve. Mark is writing screen plays and Roger is trying to write a song. Neither of them have succeeded. We learn about Maureen, Marks girlfriend, left him for a Harvard Law graduate named Joanne. We also find out that Rogers girlfriend killed herself recently when she found out that she had A.I.D.S and now Roger does to. We are also introduced to there friend Collins who is getting mugged. Then Benny, there landlord, calls and tell them that there rent is due. Then the electricity in the apartment is turned off. Next we meet Joanne who has called Maureen to tell her that the equipment that she is going to use for her protest has broke down. Instantly Maureen calls mark and ask him to come fix her equipment and he agrees and leaves the apartment.
We then meet Angel, a man that has Aids. Angel and Collins fall in love with each other. Collins is also a man with aids.
Now Roger is in the apartment alone. He tries again to write his song and fails. Mimi then comes and knocks on the door because she like them has no power and ask Roger to light her candle and there relationship lights there. Roger refuses to admit it. Mark, Collins and Angel arrive at the apartment. We find out that Angel has killed a dog to get a good sum of money. Angel lets Collins give some of the money to Mark and Roger. Benny shows up and tells Roger and Mark that if they can get Maureen to stop her protest against him. They don’t agree. Benny leaves as does Mark, Collins and Angel.
Mark goes to the lot where the protest will take place and meets Joanne and fixes the equipment and tells Joanne of his former relationship with Maureen. Collins and Angel goes to a life support meeting and Mark joins them there even though he doesn’t have A.I.D.S.
We see Mimi in her apartment getting ready to go see Roger. She goes down to ask him to take her out on the town for the night. He refuses and tells her to leave. Next Mark, Collins, and Angel head out on the street where people are vending there different items. They dream about opening a restaurant in Santa Fe. Mark leaves then Collins and Angel admit there love for each other. Next on the street we see Angel buying Collins a new coat since his was stolen when he was mugged. Mark meets Roger who tells him about a girl he met named Mimi. Mimi is getting some drugs and Roger goes to apologize for the way he treated her and ask her out for supper.
Then Maureen shows up and does her protest titled “Over the Moon”. After that they go out for supper to party. During the party both find out that the other has A.I.D.S. They leave the party. Joanne comes back to tell everyone that the building Roger and Mark live in has been locked down, and due to Maureen’s protest a riot has broken out. End Act 1
Act two opens with the cast singing the famous “Seasons of Love”. We find out that Mark filmed the riot and it got on TV. All the characters previously talked about, except Benny, are trying to break into the apartment. It is also now New Years Eve. A lady named Alexi Darling calls Mark to get him to film for her sleazy TV show called Buzzline. They end up getting into the apartment. Joanne and Maureen get into an argument.
Mimi goes to confront Roger about there relationship. We see them get closer. Then Alexi calls Mark to convince him to film for her. She has to leave a message. All the couples then spend an evening with each other in bed. Angel then dies. Then Maureen and Joanne split, also Roger and Mimi break up.
Next we see Angel’s funeral. Mark starts feeling bad about him self. He decides to accept the contract. He looks back on what has happened all year so far. Roger decides to leave for Santa Fe. Everyone is now fighting with one another. Mimi continues to get sicker. Roger leaves for Santa Fe. Mark finally realizes that taking the easy way out and accepting the contract from Alexi is not what he wants. He quits the contract. Roger realizes that he can not run from all his problems by getting out of town. Roger goes back to New York.
Finally Roger is back and Mark are back in the apartment. Mark has almost finished his film. Roger has figured out his one great song. Collins comes over with money he has withdrawn from an ATM he has rewired with a special password, ANGEL. Again Collins reminisce about opening up a restaurant in Santa Fe but Roger tells him that he would miss New York to much. Maureen and Joanne show up with Mimi who has a fever and is on her death bed. Mimi admits to Roger that she can only love him. She climbs closer to her death bed. Rodger sings his song to her and shares how much he loves Mimi and then plays his song, a guitar version of “Musetta’s Waltz. During the guitar part it seems that Mimi dies. But she doesn’t as we see her suddenly twitch her hand when the song is done. Mimi has had a near death experience and she tells everyone about it. Then Mark starts showing his move. Finally the show closes with everyone reunited and the ghost of Angel smiles upon them as they realize that there is “No Day But Today”.
Updated On: 3/31/05 at 04:38 PM
