2022 - 2023 Musical Theatre Season
Scottsdale Community College Department of Music in collaboration with Scottsdale School of Film+Theatre Presents:
RENT: The Musical
Directed by: Don K. Williams
Music Directed by: Kira Zeeman Rugen
Where: Performing Arts Center at SCC
9000 East Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256
When: April 13, 14, 15, 20, & 21, 2023 at 7:30 pm and April 22, 2023 at 2 pm. Free high school show by reservation only: April 21, 2023 at 11 am
Admission: $15 General / $10 Students
Purchase tickets at Eventbrite
Synopsis: Based loosely on Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme, RENT follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians in New York City’s Lower East Side, during the late 1980s HIV/ AIDS crisis. The physical and emotional complications of the disease permeate the lives of the characters, as they struggle with addictions, gender/sexual identity, family issues, and the rising cost of rent. The plot unfolds as these young bohemian friends negotiate their dreams, relationships, and conflicts in this groundbreaking pop-rock musical, while the audience sees the story through the eyes of a filmmaker, lawyer, professor, musicians and performers.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by: Jonathan Larson
Musical Arrangements: Steve Skinner
Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements: Tim Weil
Original Concept and Additional Lyrics: Billy Aronson
Dramaturg: Lynn Thomson
For more information: [email protected]
Cast List:
- Mark Cohen – Justin Jordan
- Roger Davis – Griffin Leander
- Tom Collins – Carter Anderson
- Benjamin Coffin III – Caleb Conver
- Joanne Jefferson – Hailey Camblin
- Angel Dumott Schunard – Tyler Sines
- Mimi Marquez – Josephine Maldenado
- Maureen Johnson – Natalie Edwards
Chorus Ensemble:
Alex Aikens, Justin Aikens, Peter Buck, Elaine Denny, Matthew Gross, Joel Harpenau, Michael Henry, Quentin Hill, Emmalyse Lajoie, Jessie Winkler
RENT is presented with permission from Music Theatre International, 423 West 55th Street, Second Floor, New York, NY 10019.