The show moved to Broadway on April 29, and later that year it would win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as two Antoinette Perry ('Tony') Awards.

The production stage manager is Gary Mickelson casting is by Tara Rubin Casting.In February of 1996, the musical Rent, created by Jonathan Larson (1961-1996) and billed as 'The Rock Opera of the Nineties, ' opened in New York City.

The upcoming production will also have music direction by Amanda Morton, scenic design by Chika Shimizu, costume design by Rodrigo Muñoz, lighting design by Cha See, sound design by Matt Kraus, projection design by Nicholas Hussong and Jamie Godwin, and fight and intimacy direction by Alex Might. Set in Manhattan in the 1990s and inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème, the hit musical follows a group of young East Village artists, performers, and philosophers as they struggle through the hardships of poverty, societal discord, and the AIDS epidemic in the search for life, love and art. After 16 previews and 5,123 regular performances, the production played its final show September 7, 2008. Larson's work also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The musical receiTony nominations, subsequently winning four, including Best Musical. Skokan, and Donté Wilder.ĭirected by Michael Greif, Rent opened at Broadway's Nederlander Theatre April 29, 1996, following previews that began April 16. The ensemble will include Rickens Anantua, Andrew Faria, Lauryn Alexandria Hobbs, Sami Ma, Adriana Medina Santiago, Liam Pearce, Michael Schimmele, Hannah T.

Casting is complete for the Paper Mill Playhouse's upcoming production of the late Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, which will play the New Jersey venue June 7-July 2 with an official opening June 11.ĭirected by Zi Alikhan and choreographed by Steph Paul, the cast will feature Jordan Barrow ( Wicked) as Benjamin Coffin III, Leana Rae Concepcion ( Merrily We Roll Along) as Joanne Jefferson, Terrance Johnson ( Dreamgirls tour) as Tom Collins, Olivia Lux ( RuPaul’s Drag Race) as Angel Schunard, Mackenzie Meadows as Maureen Johnson, Alisa Melendez ( Almost Famous) as Mimi Marquez, Zachary Noah Piser ( Dear Evan Hansen) as Mark Cohen, and Matt Rodin ( Beau) as Roger Davis.

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