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Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complications pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel;Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera recording the events but never playing a part.