The revolutionary Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning show.
Premièring on Broadway in 1996, Jonathan Larson’s revolutionary rock version of Puccini’s opera La Bohème was a stunning success, winning many prestigious accolades including the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Larson’s moving score portrays a group of impoverished artists, addicts and lovers maintaining a precarious existence in New York’s East Village, under the ever-present shadow of AIDS. As relevant now as it was then, RENT creates a time capsule of a world in which these young Bohemians find hope and joy in the darkest depths of despair, and strive to find the salvation of love even in the face of tragedy.
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RENT will be performed in Spotlites @ The Merchants' Hall on Hanover Street on the following dates:
PREVIEWS: 5th - 8th August
Time: TBA
PERFORMANCES: 16th - 31st August
Time: 8pm (1 hr 55 mins)
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PRODUCTION TEAM:
Director: Nina Logue
Musical Director: Simon Burrow
Choreographer: Katy Heavens
Assistant Musical Director: Andy Bowden
Executive Producer: Debbie Hicks
Producer: Nick Morris
CAST:
Mimi Marquez: Stephanie Baillie
Joanne Jefferson: Rachel Timney
Maureen Johnson: Olivia Holland-Rose
Mark Cohen: Ross Martin
Roger Davis: Ali Watt
Tom Collins: Greg McCafferty
Angel Dumott Schunard: Jimi Mitchell
Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III: Ed Sheridan
Chorus:
Robin Stewart Katie Foster
Jerry Meldrum Julie Moote
Martin Heavens Helen Coad
Mark Laverty Quianna Givens
Jason Park Jenny Dickens
Alex Duffy Torty Lee