RENT is Coming to Auckland

RENT

RENT, the scorchingly hot modern take on Puccini's La Boheme, comes to The Civic, THE EDGE in Auckland for a strictly limited season starting April 22.

This Pulitzer and 10-times Tony Award-winning musical described by Rolling Stone magazine as "a raw and riveting milestone in musical theatre!" is a stirring and powerful rock opera. It is one of the longest running musicals on Broadway and now it's coming to Auckland.

This all-new production, presented by Auckland Music Theatre, will feature some of New Zealand's finest musical theatre performers. Full details will be announced in the New Year.

Tickets are on sale TODAY at THE EDGE

Bookings: THE EDGE
http://www.buytickets.co.nz
(09) 357 3355 or 0800 BUY TICKETS (0800 289 842)
$30.00 - $69.90 (+ booking fee)
Special group booking offer available for 10 or more

RENT is a revolutionary modern rock opera, updating Puccini's classic "La Boheme", and is widely considered the greatest rock musical of modern times.

Set in the late 1980s in New York City's Bohemian East Village, this stirring musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists, writers and musicians struggling to live and pay their rent.

"Measuring their lives in love", these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and loss; all while celebrating their creative spirit, choosing to live life as if there is No Day But Today!

"A raw and riveting milestone in musical theatre!" Rolling Stone magazine

RENT was one of the first Broadway musicals to clearly feature gay, bisexual, lesbian, and transgender characters. It is also noted for its ethnically diverse cast, which includes many racial minorities in its ensemble and leading roles. RENT is considered revolutionary for bringing controversial topics and counterculture to a traditionally conservative medium, and is credited with increasing the popularity of musical theatre in the younger generation. Many critics have also mentioned how the show speaks to Generation X the same way that the musical HAIR spoke to the flower generation, calling it "a rock opera for our time, a 'Hair' for the 90's."

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