NY Daily News: Sorry, “Rentheads,” bohemia is dead. The site of the Life Cafe, the 30-year-old Alphabet City eatery that inspired the late Jonathan Larson’s musical “Rent,” is up for rent. The cafe is best known as the location for the “La Vie Boheme” scene in the play, in which a group of artists and friends celebrate the type of bohemianism present in 1980s Alphabet City. Larson is said to have written much of the play at the cafe, where he was often seen researching and interviewing patrons.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Space that housed the Life Cafe, the setting for 'Rent,' is itself up for rent, ending an era
NY Daily News: Sorry, “Rentheads,” bohemia is dead. The site of the Life Cafe, the 30-year-old Alphabet City eatery that inspired the late Jonathan Larson’s musical “Rent,” is up for rent. The cafe is best known as the location for the “La Vie Boheme” scene in the play, in which a group of artists and friends celebrate the type of bohemianism present in 1980s Alphabet City. Larson is said to have written much of the play at the cafe, where he was often seen researching and interviewing patrons.
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