Honorable mentions: “How I Know You,” “Not Me” Aida hit Broadway in 2000, about four years after Rent did, and they bear surprisingly strong similarities. Both of them want to be socially conscious: Aida is Romeo and Juliet for race (though it could say significantly more about race than it does), while race is just… Read More Songs from Musicals: #16, “Elaborate Lives,” from Aida