Rent Cast Performs Before Apollo Theatre Screening, Nov. 22
Before the November 22nd screening of the Rent film at Harlem's Apollo Theatre (126th St., between Seventh and Eight Avenues), the cast of the movie musical will perform "Seasons of Love."Scheduled to attend the screening are 1,000 Harlem-based teenagers. The performance will begin at 3:30 PM with the film to follow.
Rent, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), is a Columbia
Pictures/Revolution Studios production; it will be released by Sony
Pictures. The movie features original stars Idina Menzel,
Taye Diggs, Wilson
Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and
Anthony Rapp, as well as Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms. It will be released in theaters nationwide on November 23rd.
With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is
set in late-90's New York (updated in the film) in the East Village, where a group of artists
love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure,
illness and death. The La Boheme-based
show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its
opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for
Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months
before the show opened. It has since run over 3,900 performances.
For more information on the Rent film, visit www.sony.com/rent.
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