EDITOR'S NOTE

Abstract

“No day but today.” The cast of the long-running musical Rent sings this anthem of consolation at the end of Act Two before sending its audience out into the neon-saturated day-for-night world that is Times Square after dark. After a modest beginning composer Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer prize-winning work about the lives and loves of starving artists inhabiting abandoned buildings made its way uptown from an authentically grungy theatre in New York City's East Village to the posh Nederlander Theatre. Newly refurbished, the better to emulate a shabby downtown performance space, the Nederlander evokes for upmarket audiences the downmarket and . . .