It ran for 12 years and won a bunch of awards, including the Tony for Best Musical. It's about artists, love, and shitty landlords all set in New York City's East Village amidst the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the late 1980s.
What's RENT? RENT is a 1996 Broadway musical by the late Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's La boheme. The production stage manager is Gary Mickelson casting is by Tara Rubin Casting.Buried towards the bottom of Brooklyn drag legend Charlene Incarnate's recent piece for Out about how "Angel's Gender Identity Is RENT's Most Enduring Mystery" is a short little aside that reads: "queer author Sarah Schulman has suggested with compelling evidence that the characters are plagiarized from her 1990 novel, People in Trouble." Did that line leave you confused? Don't worry. The upcoming production will also have music direction by Amanda Morton, scenic design by Chika Shimizu, costume design by Rodrigo Muñoz, lighting design by Cha See, sound design by Matt Kraus, projection design by Nicholas Hussong and Jamie Godwin, and fight and intimacy direction by Alex Might. Set in Manhattan in the 1990s and inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème, the hit musical follows a group of young East Village artists, performers, and philosophers as they struggle through the hardships of poverty, societal discord, and the AIDS epidemic in the search for life, love and art. After 16 previews and 5,123 regular performances, the production played its final show September 7, 2008. Larson's work also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
The musical receiTony nominations, subsequently winning four, including Best Musical. Skokan, and Donté Wilder.ĭirected by Michael Greif, Rent opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre April 29, 1996, following previews that began April 16. The ensemble will include Rickens Anantua, Andrew Faria, Lauryn Alexandria Hobbs, Sami Ma, Adriana Medina Santiago, Liam Pearce, Michael Schimmele, Hannah T. Casting is complete for the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the late Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, which will play the New Jersey venue June 7-July 2 with an official opening June 11.ĭirected by Zi Alikhan and choreographed by Steph Paul, the cast will feature Jordan Barrow ( Wicked) as Benjamin Coffin III, Leana Rae Concepcion ( Merrily We Roll Along) as Joanne Jefferson, Terrance Johnson ( Dreamgirls tour) as Tom Collins, Olivia Lux ( RuPaul’s Drag Race) as Angel Schunard, Mackenzie Meadows as Maureen Johnson, Alisa Melendez ( Almost Famous) as Mimi Marquez, Zachary Noah Piser ( Dear Evan Hansen) as Mark Cohen, and Matt Rodin ( Beau) as Roger Davis.
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