THE ROCK OF `RENT' Better tunes than lyrics

The Boston Globe | November 22, 1996| | Copyright

Three critics take on the music of this year's hottest ticket

"Rent" combines two powerful myths. One is the myth of Puccini's "La Boheme." You can stay young, fall in love forever and never turn into your parents -- all you have to do is die. This obstacle is overcome by the other myth, also operatic, the myth of Orfeo -- the power of music and love can conquer death.

This is more than Jonathan Larson, the composer of "Rent," can carry off. The list of things that go wrong is endless -- the show is too long, too loud, too confused and confusing. The book is more sentimental than "South ...

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