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Rent will hit the big screen again. This time around it won’t be a film adaptation, but rather a filmed performance.

Playbill reports that the musical’s final Broadway performance on September 7 (June 1 was the original closing date.) will be filmed as part of Sony Pictures’ venture “the Hot Ticket.” The performance will play in movie theatres nationwide in late September.

The film version of Rent was released in late 2005. Tracie Thoms (pictured at right with Anthony Rapp) played Joanne in the film and will reprise the role onstage. Her run begins today and ends on the show’s closing night. By all accounts, it looks like she’ll have the distinction of appearing in two film versions of Rent in the same role.

Prior to starring in the 2005 film, Thoms auditioned several times for the stage production but was never cast.