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I also like the fact that it literally breathed new life into musical theatre and helped show there was a different way than the jukebox musical. I mean I LOVED Mamma Mia and Jersey Boys, but they are not really fresh music.
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Jukebox musicals really weren't too common until after Rent. It certainly did breathe new life into musical theatre, but the jukebox trend (All Shook Up, Lennon, Good Vibrations, Jersey Boys, Mamma Mia, etc.) started a good five years or more after Rent opened on Broadway.
I saw Baz Luhrman's La Boheme not long after seeing Rent for the first time and it was pretty awesome to spot the similarities (and differences) to the story.