Rockdale Musical Society Presents RENT

Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical, RENT, details one year in the life of seven modern day artists & musicians, living in New York's run down "Alphabet City" in the late 1980s. It is loosely based on Puccini's opera, La Boheme, which dealt with the lives of poor artists living in tuberculosis plagued, Nineteenth Century Paris.

As this modern day circle of friends struggles with life, love, infidelity, and the usual hopes & fears of modern day life, they must also cope with drug addiction and the rising spectre of AIDS. In the midst of all this, one of them attempts to capture all of their lives on film, hoping to make artistic sense of it all.

RENT was first seen in a three-week workshop run at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1994 that quickly sold out. This same New York City off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official January 25, 1996, opening. Tragically, the show's creator, Jonathan Larson died suddenly from an undiagnosed aortic aneurysm the night before the off-Broadway premiere.

RENT opened on Broadway in 1996. It went on to win every major best musical award, including the Tony Award, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama and is the seventh longest running show in Broadway history .

Rockdale Musical Society has assembled an incredible cast of triple threats to present this classic piece.

CAST
Marcus Hurley plays the role of Mark Cohen, a struggling documentary filmmaker and best friend of Roger Davis, an HIV-positive musician who is recovering from heroin addiction, played by Charles McComb. Georgia Vella is Mimi Marquez; a sexy HIV-positive stripper and dancer, who is also a heroin junkie, and Roger's love interest.

Talia Sigsworth plays a spunky performance artist Maureen Johnson, who is Mark's ex-girlfriend and current girlfriend of Joanne Jefferson, a tough, headstrong Harvard-educated lawyer played by Sherry-Anne Hayes.

Tom Collins, the HIV-positive philosophy teacher, friend and former roommate of Roger, Mark, and Maureen is played by Haji Myrteza. ArRon Johnson is cast in the role of Angel Schunard, an HIV-positive Drag Queen with a heart of gold, and Tom Collins' love interest. Benjamin "Benny" Coffin III, played by Philby Mackintosh, is the former friend and landlord of Mark, Roger and Mimi's apartment.

ROCKDALE MUSICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS RENT
Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Rockdale Town Hall cnr Princes Highway and Bryant Street, Rockdale, NSW, Australia.

PERFORMANCES

Wednesday MAY 31 @ 8pm

Thursday JUNE 1 @ 8pm

Friday JUNE 2 @ 2pm

Saturday JUNE 3 @ 2pm

Saturday JUNE 3 @ 8pm

Sunday JUNE 4 @ 2pm

TICKETS

From $31.50 to $41.50

BOOKINGS
www.rockdalemusicalsociety.com

PRODUCTION TEAM

Director: Kate Berger
Musical Director: David Lang
Choreographer: Joel Duffy

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