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On Jan. 26, 1996, previews for a new musical began in a small theater in New York's East Village. The show's cast -- though it included future stars Idina Menzeland Taye Diggs -- was largely unknown; its writer, 35-year-old Jonathan Larson, was a struggling artist like the characters he wrote. As for its subject matter -- gentrification, drug addiction and the AIDS epidemic -- and rock-driven score, both were far from typical for musical theater.

“Rent has always been about the characters' psychology,” says the show's original director, Michael Greif, who worked in tandem with Rent Live! director Alex Rudzinski. “Jonathan wrote characters with beautiful insights and self-reflection. To get a group of people who could go there simply and deeply was exciting.”

Casting that group, just like in the 1990s, meant finding actors who could sing and dance, but -- more importantly -- telegraph a genuine youthful je ne sais quoi. The lead actors are an appropriately diverse group that includes stage-and-screen regulars like Dixon, Jordan Fisher and Vanessa Hudgens; seasoned pop singers such as Tinashe and Mario; and magnetic newcomers like drag queen Valentina.

Tinashe plays Mimi, the charismatic HIV-positive junkie stripper whose romance with troubled musician Roger (Brennin Hunt) is at Rent's center. “So many musicals are period pieces, but it was cool to see this more modern approach,” says Tinashe, 25, who first saw a college production of Rent in middle school. “And it was exciting to see a cast full of minorities -- a more accurate representation of the world we live in.”

Niall Horan to play Hero Pro-Am as Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens announced as Sky Sports British Masters Official Charity Partner - European Tour

Justin Rose and Niall Horan will reunite at the Sky Sports British Masters after the Irish pop star was announced to play the event’s Hero Pro-Am, while Rose’s selected cause Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens has also been announced as an Official Charity Partner along with the European Tour Foundation.

The Sky Sports British Masters will take place at Walton Heath Golf Club from October 11-14, hosted by World Number One Rose, and the Englishman will continue his long-standing charitable partnership with his friend Horan, the former One Direction singer who has since forged a successful solo career in the music industry.

The duo first teamed up for Cancer Research UK Kids & Teens in 2016 and have since raised over £1.4 million for the campaign. Donations to the campaign will help fund vital research to find new, better and kinder treatments for children and young people (aged 0-24) with cancer. Continued research is needed to help more of this age group survive cancer, and to ensure that they do so with a good quality of life.