Carpenter Performing Arts Center, CSULB (Long Beach, CA)
Jonathan Larson's Tony and Pulitzer prize-winning musical uses dance, pop, rock, R&B and salsa to tell an emotional tale about a community of young artists who celebrate life while struggling to make it. Based on Puccini's La Boheme, Rent mixes the classic themes of love and loss, pain and hope, and a need to belong with an energetic score and contemporary attitude. Featuring Emmy Award-winner Jai Rodriquez (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) as Angel.
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The Carpenter Performing Arts Center seats 1,079 patrons in a lush and intimate configuration. The stage area was modeled after the New York State Theater of the Arts at Lincoln Center, and can accommodate large or small performing ensembles, film screenings, concerts, conferences and other special events.
Rent is one of the most popular musicals in theater history. With a twelve year run on Broadway, the show is an update of the Puccini’s La Boheme, but takes place in late 20th century New York. The gritty subject material and powerful songs of the young creator combined to make the show a new icon of modern musical theater. Writer and composer Jonathan Larson set out to transform the tragic opera into a modern day New York setting, complete with rock music. The story of Rent follows the lives of a group of young artists in New York City's East Village. In addition to being too poor to pay rent on their apartments, several of the members of the group are HIV positive. The play revolves around three couples, Collins and the cross-dressing Angel, the often-fighting Mimi and Roger, and the always-fighting Joanne and Maureen. The final member of the group is Mark, a filmmaker who spends more time taping the lives of his friends than he spends living his own life. All of the members of the group refuse to live a traditional lifestyle, embracing bohemian concepts and surviving as well as they can.
Musical Theatre West is one of Southern California's oldest and most respected regional musical theatre companies and draws more than 60,000 patrons to Long Beach's Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Now in its 53rd season, Musical Theatre West is the fastest growing arts organization in Long Beach and is dedicated to preserving musical theatre as a unique American art form.
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