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| | Stage Preview: 'Rent' overdue for radio |
 | | If any modern musical was going to spawn a contemporary radio crossover hit, it was "Rent." But like its valiantly losing characters, "Rent" was avoided like the plague by rock radio formats. |
 | | Progressive musical theater, composed to attract younger and more adventuresome audiences, is left with no machinery to carry the music to its intended audience. |
 | | A recording of the show's music was remastered for radio and recently released not as a cast album, but as "Bigsmorgasbordwunderwerk," an ethereal, progressive music disc. |
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