Muir Musical Ensemble Presents: RENT
Event on 2012-04-13 20:00:00
This year's Muir Musical ensemble presents, Rent a story of love and loyalty among a group of starving artists in New York's East Village. Among the group are the narrator, a filmmaker named Mark who tells the struggles of his closest friends: Roger, a young, struggling musician/songwriter trying to write one final song before AIDS claims his life. Mimi, a drug addict and club dancer fighting love and disease. Collins, a computer genius plagued by AIDS and his love interest Angel, a transvestite and street musician also suffering from the disease. Maureen, a performance artist, and her lover Joanne. The fast-paced production moves through a collection of vignettes that are united by a rent strike against the landlord of the run-down tenement where some of the characters live. During the course of the play, the characters protest the landlord's plans to evict them and face other obstacles that are more difficult to fight, including drug addiction, AIDS, and troubled relationships. The characters do not overcome all their problems, but those that they do overcome provide them with a sustaining sense of community and the will to endure. Books, music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
Contact Name: Patricia Mahaffey
Contact Phone: (858) 534-3587 Ext.
Contact Email: mailto:pmahaffey@ucsd.edu
at University of California, San Diego
3350 La Jolla Village
La Jolla, United States
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