QUOTE(Ariel Company Theatre @ Sep 7 2008, 11:10 AM) 
RENT the musical
2nd -6th JUNE 2009
Box Office 01293 553636
The Hawth Theatre, Crawley, West Sussex
To follow on from Ariel Company Theatres success with Tommy and Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Hawth theatre, Crawley, Sussex.
We are please to announce we will be performing RENT by JONATHAN LARSON for our June 2009 show, at the main stage at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley, Sussex
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Art and money. Youth and death. AIDS and heroin. Do these sound like proper topics for a musical?
2nd -6th JUNE 2009
Box Office 01293 553636
The Hawth Theatre, Crawley, West Sussex
To follow on from Ariel Company Theatres success with Tommy and Return to the Forbidden Planet at the Hawth theatre, Crawley, Sussex.
We are please to announce we will be performing RENT by JONATHAN LARSON for our June 2009 show, at the main stage at the Hawth Theatre in Crawley, Sussex
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Art and money. Youth and death. AIDS and heroin. Do these sound like proper topics for a musical?
Jonathan Larson's 1996 "Rent" makes tragedy and joy out of such matters. Winner of the Tony Award for best musical and the Pulitzer Prize, "Rent" is the ultimate rock musical, a reworking of Puccini's opera "La Bohème". It follows a group of young artists on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the'90s as they struggle to make it, to connect with one another, to free themselves from rules and drugs and fear.
Larson died just before the show began previews, but "Rent" is lasting evidence of his skills as writer, composer and lyricist. The melodies and harmonies are beautiful; the book is clever but never ironic in its intense look at love and art. And the lyrics are funny, feeling, witty
Check Web for details.
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Larson died just before the show began previews, but "Rent" is lasting evidence of his skills as writer, composer and lyricist. The melodies and harmonies are beautiful; the book is clever but never ironic in its intense look at love and art. And the lyrics are funny, feeling, witty
Check Web for details.
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I'm bumping this up as I have just bought tickets as I know someone in the cast . I think he is an amazing actor and have seen him in many productions over the years so this is worth the money alone just to see him perform.
I pay shockingly little attention to local theatre, I really should start.