{"id":266191,"date":"2019-01-26T12:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1008685"},"modified":"2019-01-26T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:49:24","slug":"idina-menzel-reveals-the-og-rent-cast-is-reuniting-for-foxs-live-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/idina-menzel-reveals-the-og-rent-cast-is-reuniting-for-foxs-live-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Idina Menzel Reveals the OG Rent Cast Is Reuniting for Fox&#8217;s Live Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20171013\/rs_600x600-171113132826-600.idina-menzel.111317.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.664432529044\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"24.508489722967\">\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a <em>Rent<\/em> reunion!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/idina_menzel\">Idina Menzel<\/a><\/strong> took to Instagram on Friday to hint that she and a few other OG cast members are going to appear in Fox&#8217;s <em>Rent Live<\/em> this Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The celebrity, who played Maureen Johnson in the original Broadway production and in the 2005 movie, posted a few pics from the Fox Studio lot in Los Angeles. The shots showed a sign with her initials\u2014IM\u2014hanging on the door of a trailer. There were also signs with the initials DRV and FW\u2014letting fans know <strong>Daphne Rubin Vega<\/strong> and <strong>Fredi Walker<\/strong>\u2014who played Mimi Marquez and Joanne Jefferson, respectively in the original musical\u2014will also likely make an appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, she wasn&#8217;t the only one to leave a few clues. <strong>Anthony Rapp<\/strong>, who played Mark Cohen in the production and in film, also posted a picture with his initials hanging from a trailer door. In addition, the initials &#8220;AP,&#8221; &#8220;TD,&#8221; &#8220;WJH&#8221; and &#8220;JLM&#8221; were also featured in the snapshot\u2014hinting that <strong>Adam Pascal<\/strong>\u00a0(Roger Davis),<strong>Wilson Jermaine Heredia<\/strong>\u00a0(Angel Dumott Schunard)\u00a0<strong>Jesse L. Martin<\/strong>\u00a0(Tom Collins) and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/taye_diggs\">Taye Diggs<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Benjamin Coffin III) would also take the stage.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.214285714286\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3.5238095238095\">\n<p>As fans will recall, Menzel and Diggs met through <em>Rent<\/em> and were married for over 10 years before they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/490035\/taye-diggs-and-idina-menzel-split-up\" target=\"_blank\">called it quits<\/a> in 2013.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"52.605150214592\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.9570815450644\">\n<p>As exciting as it will be to see the original performers again, fans should\u00a0still be pumped to see the new cast take the stage. The <em>Rent Live<\/em> cast consists of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/vanessa_hudgens\">Vanessa Hudgens<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Valentina<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/tinashe\">Tinashe<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Jordan Fisher<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mario\">Mario<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-6\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Fans can catch all of the action Sunday, Jan. 27 at 8:00 p.m. on Fox.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-7\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1008685\/idina-menzel-reveals-the-og-rent-cast-is-reuniting-for-fox-s-live-show?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s going to be a Rent reunion! Idina Menzel took to Instagram on Friday to hint that she and a few other OG cast members are going to appear in Fox&#8217;s Rent Live this Sunday.\u00a0 The celebrity, who played Maureen Johnson in the original Broadway production and in the 2005 movie, posted a few pics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:47:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}