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Edmonton's leading semi-professional musical theatre company from 2006 to 2016
RENT
Music & Lyrics by Johnathan Larson
Directed & Choreographed by Linette Smith
Musical Direction by Daniel Belland
Stage Managed by Jessica Poole
Set, Costumes, Props Coordinator Martin Galba
Queued Sound and Lighting Operator Hunter Luth
Lighting Designer Jessica Poole
Technical Director John Anderson
Theatre Technician Chris de la Cruz
Graphic Design by Martin Galba
Program Design by Stephanie Galba
Production Managed by Martin Galba
Hanna Skibin as Mimi Márquez
Brian Christensen as Roger Davis
Josh Travnik as Mark Cohen
Amanda Neufeld as Maureen Johnson
Mark Sinongco as Angel Dumott Schunard
Matt Graham as Tom Collins
Mackenzie Reurink as Joanne Jefferson
Dustyn Tennessen as Benjamin ‘Benny’ Coffin III
with
Adam Kuss, Alex Aoki, Angela Tran, Eliana Parrado, Emilie Rogers, Garrett Waschuk, Jameela McNeil, Jeannine Naboye, JJ Park, Lisa Brownie, Manny Aguerrevere, Neil Dungo and Shawn Wells
June 10-26, 2016 at La Cite (Theatre), 8627 - 91 Street, Edmonton, AB
Tickets will go on sale in May through Tix on the Square
Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème.
It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in New York City's East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same Off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, the night before the Off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.
On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances. On February 14, 2016, the musical Wicked surpassed Rent's number of performances with a 2pm matinee, pushing Rent from the tenth to eleventh longest-running Broadway show. The production grossed over $280 million.
The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005 it was adapted into a motion picture featuring most of the original cast members.
