Aida is a Broadway musical based on the opera by Giuseppe Verdi. It tells the story of an enslaved Nubian princess and her forbidden love for an Egyptian soldier. RENT is a rock musical about a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive in New York City's East Village in the late 1980s. Mame is a musical comedy-drama about an eccentric, wealthy woman who takes in her orphaned nephew. Evita is a musical based on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón. CATS is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical CATS. ANNIE is a musical based on the comic strip Little Orphan ANNIE. The Wiz is a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.