NOVEMBER 2014
The brindley theatre
DIRECTOR: ANTHONY QUIMBY
MUSICAL DIRECTOR: ANTHONY QUIMBY BAND LEADER: JAMES ECCLESHARE CHOREOGRAPHER: DOM LEWIS / HELENA FERREIRA / CLAIRE BUNDY Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a limited three-week workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official January 25, 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, the night before the Off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996 |
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