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WINNER OF 4 TONY AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST MUSICAL
WINNER OF 6 DRAMA DESK AWARDS
WINNER OF 2 THEATRE WORLD AWARDS
WINNER OF THE 1996 PULITZER PRIZE FOR DRAMA
The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute presents
Jonathan Larson's
RENT
RENT is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Directed by: Troy Rintala
ABOUT THE COMPOSER:
Jonathan Larson received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for RENT. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for RENT and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. In 1989 he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical "Sitting on the Edge of the Future." In 1988 he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical "Superbia," which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. He composed the score for the musical "J.P. Saves the Nation," which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. Mr. Larson performed his rock monologue "tick, tick...BOOM!" at Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate and New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to scoring and songwriting for "Sesame Street," he created music for a number of children's book-cassettes, including Steven Speilberg's "An American Tail" and "Land Before Time." Other film scores include work for Rolling Stone Magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed, and wrote four original songs for "Away We Go!", a musical video for children. RENT, his rock opera based on La Boheme, had its world premiere on February 13, 1996 at New York Theatre Workshop and opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. Mr. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, ten days before his 36th birthday.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Musical Arrangements by Steve Skinner
Original Concept & Additional Lyrics by Billy Aronson
Music Supervision & Original Arrangement by Tim Weil
Dramaturg: Lynn Thomson
RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon, and New York Theatre Workshop
RENT School Edition
Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.
421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684
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LocationLee Strasberg Institute Marilyn Monroe Theatre
7936 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA 90046
United States
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