Rent

(March 11 - April 3) Capital Playhouse will proudly be the first local theatre to produce Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical. Based loosely on Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Rent follows a year in the lives of seven friends living the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York’s East Village. Struggles with love, drugs and AIDS – both its physical and emotional complications – pervade the lives of an aspiring filmmaker, a public interest lawyer lesbian, a drug addicted exotic dancer, a gay anarchist, a yuppie sell-out and a drag queen street musician. Overwhelmingly popular, Rent is the winner of five Drama Desk Awards and three Tony Awards®. Though tragic, controversial and coarse, Rent always leaves the audience with a sense of hope.

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