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RENT The Musical will end its tremendous 12-year stand at the historic Nederlander Theater in September 2008 as the seventh longest running Broadway show of all time, with over 5,000 performances. Its final show on Sunday September 7, 2008 is the climax of eight performances that week.

According to Campbell Robertson of the New York Times, RENT’s attendance began to decline in 2007, and the producers announced the show would close in June 2008. That date was later pushed back to September. Tickets for the last eight performances soon became difficult to find.

The rock musical is a re-imagining of Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème, moving the scene from Paris’ 1830s bohemian district to New York City’s East Village, where artists and musicians struggled with poverty and AIDs in the 1980s. As Broadway.com said, the show's roots "were in graffiti-strewn alleys, heatless lofts, fluorescent-lit subway cars, dingy bars and auditoriums."