York is ready for Rent
YORK Theatre Royal is hosting Jonathan Larson's ground-breaking Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical Rent, from Tuesday April 18 to Saturday, April 22, in association with Theatr Clwyd, 20th anniversary production.
Directed by Bruce Guthrie, the show is inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème, and won four Tony Awards, six Drama Desk Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1996. Rent ran on Broadway for 12 years, from 1996 to 2008 and premiered in London’s West End in 1998 at the Shaftesbury Theatre, where it ran for 18 months. It was adapted into a film in 2005.
Larson’s world is inhabited by a group of bohemian artists who struggle to maintain their friendships and their non-conformist ideals in New York's East Village. The poignancy of the story was heightened when Larson died of an aortic dissection on January 25, 1996, the night before the show’s first off-Broadway performance at New York Theatre Workshop.
The score features songs such as Seasons of Love, Take Me or Leave Me, One Song Glory, La Vie Bohème, Without You, I’ll Cover You, Out Tonight, I Should Tell You and the title song.
The new production has choreography by Lee Proud, set design by Olivier Award-winner Anna Fleischle and costumes by Loren Elstein, with lighting by Olivier and Tony Award-winner Rick Fisher, sound from Olivier Award-winner Mike Walker, video by Andrzej Goulding, musical direction by Phil Cornwell and casting by Will Burton Casting.
* Tickets for £32 to– £12 (£1.50 transaction fee per booking). Box Office: 01904 623568 or yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Viv Hardwick
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