{"id":346578,"date":"2026-09-14T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346578\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:56:08","slug":"anthony-rapp-and-adam-pascal-will-celebrate-80s-classics-and-rent-in-new-nyc-concerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346578\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal Will Celebrate &#8217;80s Classics and Rent in New NYC Concerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/adam-pascal-vault-0000032265\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Pascal<\/a> and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/anthony-rapp-vault-0000102859\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Rapp<\/a>\u2014who created the roles of, respectively,&#13;<br \/>\n Roger and Mark in the original Broadway production of the Tony-winning &#13;<br \/>\nmusical <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/rent-nederlander-theatre-vault-0000002708\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rent<\/a>\u2014will return to 54 Below next year with a new concert act.<\/p>\n<p>The duo, who previously offered\u00a0Celebrating Friendship &amp; History\u00a0and\u00a0In Resonance at the Manhattan venue, will now turn their talents to classics of the 1980s in a show titled\u00a0Celebrating 1980s Inspirations and Rent.<\/p>\n<p>Performances at\u00a054 Below are scheduled for January 12\u201316, 2027. Show time each night is 7 PM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/article\/rent-star-adam-pascal-is-feeling-grateful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an earlier interview with Playbill<\/a>, Pascal spoke about his long friendship with his Rent co-star, explaining, &#8220;I\u2019m so grateful for the relationship that Anthony &#13;<br \/>\nand I have, and have had, all of these years. We still love to perform &#13;<br \/>\ntogether, and people seem to want to see us do that. I\u2019m very grateful &#13;<br \/>\nfor him and for these shows that he and I have been able to do for all &#13;<br \/>\nof these years. We&#8217;re intimately familiar with each other\u2019s performing &#13;<br \/>\nstyle and how the alchemy of the two of us together works so well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pascal, lately busy directing various\u00a0productions around the country,\u00a0has also been seen on Broadway in <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/pretty-woman-the-musicalnederlander-theatre-2018-2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pretty Woman: The Musical<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/disaster-nederlander-theatre-vault-0000014149\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disaster!<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/something-rotten-st-james-theatre-vault-0000014096\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Something Rotten!<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/memphis-shubert-theatre-vault-0000010460\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/chicago-richard-rodgers-theatre-vault-0000003074\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago<\/a>, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/aida-palace-theatre-vault-0000009143\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rapp&#8217;s Broadway credits also include <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/if-then-richard-rodgers-theatre-vault-0000014003\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">If\/Then<\/a>; You&#8217;re a Good Man, Charlie Brown;  <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/six-degrees-of-separation-vivian-beaumont-theatre-vault-0000011250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Six Degrees of Separation<\/a>; <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/precious-sons-longacre-theatre-vault-0000006874\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Precious Sons<\/a>; and The Little Prince and the Aviator.<\/p>\n<p>For ticket information visit\u00a0at <a href=\"https:\/\/54below.org\/events\/adam-pascal-and-anthony-rapp-celebrating-1980s-inspirations-and-rent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"4\" title=\"https:\/\/54below.org\/events\/adam-pascal-and-anthony-rapp-celebrating-1980s-inspirations-and-rent\/\">54below.org\/PascalRapp<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp\u2014who created the roles of, respectively,&#13; Roger and Mark in the original Broadway production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-346578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}