RENT IS DUE!! Opens 3rd December (WA)
Mon, 14 Nov 2005, 08:51 amWalter Plinge1 post in thread
RENT IS DUE!! Opens 3rd December (WA)
Mon, 14 Nov 2005, 08:51 amyellow glass theatre inc proudly presents the WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of Jonathon Larson's RENT.
Direction by Chris Kabay, Musical Direction by Simon Holt
Based on PucciniÂ’s opera LA BOHEME, RENT deals with starving artists living in New York City's East Village. It focuses on the lives of Mark, a film-maker, who's girlfriend, Maureen, a drama queen performance-artist-turned-lesbian, leaves him for another woman, Joanne who is an attorney. Mark lives with his roommate Roger, a struggling musician who just wants to write "one great song" before he dies of HIV/AIDS. One day he meets Mimi, an S&M dancer also with HIV, and who is addicted to heroin. They fall in love. Mark and Roger's ex-roommate Tom Collins, a philosopher, who has just returned from M.I.T meets and falls in love with Angel, a Latino street-drummer/drag queen. They also have HIV. Mark and Roger are continuously hounded by their ex-roommate Benny, who is now their extremely wealthy landlord begging them for the rent. It focuses on a year in their lives, and their struggles of paying the rent, eviction, death, drugs, and living one day at a time.
RENT is Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Best American Drama, Winner of the 1996 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, Winner of the 1996 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Winner of the 1996 Drama League Award for Best Musical, Winner of six 1996 Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, Book, Score, and Lyrics, Winner of four 1996 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book (both Jonathan Larson) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Wilson Jermaine Heredia).
WHEN: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 DECEMBER 8pm (5pm on Sundays)
WHERE: The Bakery Artrage Complex, 233 James Street, Northbridge, WA
HOW: BOCS 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au
RENT is a part of the The Drug Aware Microwave Program, and is a Smoke and Drug Free Event.
Musical Arrangements by Steve Skinner, Original Concept/Additional Lyrics by Billy Aronson, Music Supervision & Additional Arrangements by Tim Weil, Dramaturg Lynn Thomson. RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop & on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon & New York Theatre Workshop. By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd Exclusive agent for Musical Theatre International (NY)
For further information & cast list, check out http://www.geocities.com/yellowglasstheatre/rent
Walter PlingeMon, 14 Nov 2005, 08:51 am
yellow glass theatre inc proudly presents the WEST AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE of Jonathon Larson's RENT.
Direction by Chris Kabay, Musical Direction by Simon Holt
Based on PucciniÂ’s opera LA BOHEME, RENT deals with starving artists living in New York City's East Village. It focuses on the lives of Mark, a film-maker, who's girlfriend, Maureen, a drama queen performance-artist-turned-lesbian, leaves him for another woman, Joanne who is an attorney. Mark lives with his roommate Roger, a struggling musician who just wants to write "one great song" before he dies of HIV/AIDS. One day he meets Mimi, an S&M dancer also with HIV, and who is addicted to heroin. They fall in love. Mark and Roger's ex-roommate Tom Collins, a philosopher, who has just returned from M.I.T meets and falls in love with Angel, a Latino street-drummer/drag queen. They also have HIV. Mark and Roger are continuously hounded by their ex-roommate Benny, who is now their extremely wealthy landlord begging them for the rent. It focuses on a year in their lives, and their struggles of paying the rent, eviction, death, drugs, and living one day at a time.
RENT is Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Best American Drama, Winner of the 1996 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, Winner of the 1996 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Winner of the 1996 Drama League Award for Best Musical, Winner of six 1996 Drama Desk Awards including Best Musical, Book, Score, and Lyrics, Winner of four 1996 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Score, Best Book (both Jonathan Larson) and Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Wilson Jermaine Heredia).
WHEN: 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 DECEMBER 8pm (5pm on Sundays)
WHERE: The Bakery Artrage Complex, 233 James Street, Northbridge, WA
HOW: BOCS 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au
RENT is a part of the The Drug Aware Microwave Program, and is a Smoke and Drug Free Event.
Musical Arrangements by Steve Skinner, Original Concept/Additional Lyrics by Billy Aronson, Music Supervision & Additional Arrangements by Tim Weil, Dramaturg Lynn Thomson. RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop & on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon & New York Theatre Workshop. By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd Exclusive agent for Musical Theatre International (NY)
For further information & cast list, check out http://www.geocities.com/yellowglasstheatre/rent