Tamyra Gray Rent
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Unlike a lot of Idol stars, Tamyra Gray has managed to scrape up quite a respectable career for herself in the show’s wake. And one of the big contributors to that success was her part in the broadway play RENT.
Appearing from May 2007 to June 2008, Gray had the part of Mimi Marquez, an exotic dancer who is HIV-positive. She acts as the love interest to Roger, a musician who is similarly infected with HIV. She is also addicted to heroin, though over the course of the play she makes a resolution to quit.
The musical ends with one final embrace by Mimi and Roger. Roger believes Mimi to be dead; however she revives, and they embrace in their love.
Gray proved so adept in the part that her original six month contract was extended drastically.