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Allan Gordon is the producer of Rent, the 1996 Tony Award winner for Best Musical. Gordon, a graduate of Harvard Law School, is involved in financing and producing film and theater ventures, both personally and through his investment banking company, Gordon, Haskett & Co. The Crimson had the opportunity to interview him by telephone about the message of Rent, theater investment and why the French don't like musical theater...
When you go to a new place, I read that you wanted to somehow integrate the feeling of the place, like the Boston attitude. But Rent is basically set in New York. What's it like taking a play, not only from where it started, on Broadway, but also the city where it's set? How does that translate...
...Rent is a portrayal of a very modern, liberal, accepting community...
...Take yet another HFS business: time-share vacation properties. More than two million families are members of Resort Condominiums International, the world's largest time-share exchange network, which Silverman picked up for $825 million last year. "When members go to a time-share resort," he says, "they typically rent a hotel room on either side of the week [they have purchased], and obviously we have a hotel network to rent that room to them. Typically that owner will fly to his or her destination and rent a car, so that is where Avis comes...
Discipline is what sets David Rabe's A Question of Mercy apart from the earnest TV movies that it resembles. Recently opened at the off-Broadway theater where Rent debuted, the play follows a conflicted doctor (Zach Grenier) as he tries to help a dying aids patient (Juan Carlos Hernandez) commit suicide. TV would have turned this into a moralistic issue drama about the right to die. Under Rabe's focused gaze, it becomes a cold-eyed look at what happens when that noble ideal runs up against fallible human beings. Rabe--who in the 1970s wrote big, impassioned plays...