Taye Diggs, Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Zegler Join Rent 30th Anniversary Concert
How do you measure the life of a famous Broadway musical? By the excitement over its 30th anniversary benefit concert, of course!
Rent original cast members Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, and Daphne-Rubin Vega were already set to take the stage alongside 60 Broadway performers and stars on Oct. 26 for a one-night-only concert benefiting Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Now, more musical legends will step onto the stage alongside them. Taye Diggs — who played Benny in the original Broadway cast — is joining the concert, alongside Neil Patrick Harris, Rachel Zegler , and Norbert Leo Butz.
The full cast includes original understudies and ensemble members Yassmin Alers, Gilles Chiasson, Shelley Dickinson, David Driver, Darius de Haas, and Rodney Hicks; as well as Broadway stars Natalie Venetia Belcon, Adam Chanler-Berat, Nicholas Christopher, Merle Dandridge, Trey Ellett, Jordan Fisher, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jose Llana, John Eric Parker, Jai Rodriguez, Antonique Smith, Ephraim Sykes, and Aaron Tveit.
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