RENT

Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the TONY Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Price for Drama, RENT has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates.

Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, RENT follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income, and Mark an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life.

How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.