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    Review: 'Rent,' nearly live on Fox, still packs the power of a holy text for bohemian life

    by Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times Jan 28, 2019 5 minutes

    The live theater war that NBC and Fox have been waging since 2013, when Carrie Underwood starred in NBC's "The Sound of Music," saw its latest salvo Sunday with Fox's "Rent: Live," a sweet and energetic sound-staging of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Tony Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning pop opera.

    For television to become an "event" requires timeliness; and theater, which is not exactly television even when it's on television, is a thing that lives in the moment: "No day but today," runs one of Larson's most indelible choruses. (That theme and others repeat throughout the work, turning it into a giant ear worm.) Ironically, the Sunday night broadcast, scheduled to run live (on the East Coast, that is), opened with a notice that we were watching a previously recorded performance:

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