Cast
(In order of appearance, starting with the eight major characters)
- Will Chase as Roger Davis
- Adam Kantor as Mark Cohen
- Michael McElroy as Thomas B. "Tom" Collins
- Rodney Hicks as Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III
- Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson
- Justin Johnston as Angel Dumott-Schunard
- Renée Elise Goldsberry as Mimi Marquez
- Eden Espinosa as Maureen Johnson
- Marcus Paul James as Mr. Jefferson / Pastor
- Gwen Stewart as Mrs. Jefferson / Woman with bags / "Seasons of Love" soloist
- Jay Wilkison as Gordon / The Man / Mr. Grey
- Shaun Earl as Paul
- Andrea Goss as Alexi Darling / Mrs. Davis
- Telly Leung as Steve / Squeegee man / Waiter
- Tracy McDowell as Mrs. Cohen
Rodney Hicks and Gwen Stewart are the only cast members who appeared in the original Broadway cast version, and Stewart is the only one to reprise her roles, and would later play the same roles at the Hollywood Bowl (although Hicks was also a Benny understudy in the original). Tracie Thoms, who played the role of Joanne in the film version, and Shaun Earl were the only cast members featured in the film. The character "Sue", a member of the Life Support group, was renamed "Lisa" in this version. Telly Leung would later play Angel on the RENT tour in 2009, and at the Hollywood Bowl in 2010.
Read more about this topic: Rent: Filmed Live On Broadway
Famous quotes containing the word cast:
“However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)
“There is ... but one response possible from us: Force, Force to the uttermost, Force without stint or limit, the righteous and triumphant Force which shall make Right the law of the world and cast every selfish dominion down in the dust.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)