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RENT! Lexercise

Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand, Six Hundred Points

(just kidding…it’s really worth 50)

1. What Spice Girl stared in the New York City staging of Rent in 2004? (HINT: Look in the New Musical Express)

2. In the movie “Team America,” from the creators of South Park, the puppets make fun of both the musical Rent and what action movie?

3. Find 147 F.3d 195. This famous case on co-authorship and “joint work” involves Rent playwright Jonathan Larson and what alleged co-author?

4. What day does the movie version of Rent open, and what source did you use to find this?

5. Before Rent, Jonathan Larson wrote "Tick, Tick ... Boom!" This musical is about an aspiring young theater composer's considerable angst at the prospect of turning __________ without having made it big on Broadway. Larson never lived to see Rent or Tick, Tick…Boom! make it to Broadway. He died of an aortic aneurysm at age 35, just as "Rent" was going into previews off Broadway.

6. What often cited law review article lists Rent and Puccini’s opera La Boheme, which Rent was based on, amongst many examples in a discussion of what constitutes originality? (HINT: Look in the Harvard Law Review)

7. Taye Diggs originated the role of Benjamin Coffin III. He is now married to this fellow ''Rent'' cast member and the start of the New York production of '”Wicked.” Please provide her name and source you used to find this?

8. In the musical Rent, Benjamin Coffin III could have used the services of Jan Reynolds. What does she do? (HINT: Find the New York Times article, The Art Of Persuading Tenants To Move)

9. Katherine has a brief brush with fame when she met this member of the traveling production of Rent at the original Wendy’s retaurant in Ohio. This cast member later went on to be a contestant on American Idol. (HINT: Look in the CBS News Transcripts)

10. If you want to rent (or lease) in Michigan and you use the agreement found in Legal > States Legal - U.S. > Michigan > Treatises & Analytical Materials > Michigan Real Estate Forms > Michigan Real Estate Forms > CHAPTER IX LEASES > 9.1 Residential Leases, can you have pets?

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