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April Ericsson is a character from the Broadway musical RENT. She was Roger Davis's girlfriend who died prior to the show.

Biography[]

April was dating Roger when she learned that both of them were HIV-positive. She left a note for Roger saying "We've got AIDS" before taking her own life by slitting her wrists in the bathroom.[1]

Trivia[]

  • She is mentioned in Tune Up 3, One Song Glory, and Light My Candle.
  • While in the musical April is only mentioned, in the 2005 film she is shown in a flashback during One Song Glory.
  • While the musical makes it clear that April died by suicide, the movie does not give the exact reason April died.
  • In the 2005 film, they filmed a shot where April is lying in the bathroom with her wrists slit, but the director thought it would be too much and it was cut.

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