[NEohioPAL] RENT cast peforms for PRIDE

[ACT Business Manager]

Cast members from theAurora Community Theatre upcoming production of RENT will sing excerpts from
the award-winning musical at CLEVELAND PRIDE: 25th Anniversary Celebration, Saturday evening, June
29. 

 

Special price for opening weekend of RENT, just $9 per ticket by entering coupon code: july56  buy
online 24/7 www.auroracommunitytheatre.com <http://www.auroracommunitytheatre.com/> 

 

Special performance night to accommodate schedules of actors, singers, dancers, behind-the-scenes
artists and other weekend performers at 8 pm MONDAY July 15. 

 

 

Aurora Community Theatre
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 2013

Contact: 

Christine Patronik-Holder

330-562-1818

 

Sizzling, Sensational Musical

RENT

Opens July 5

 

AURORA---- RENT, the sensational rock musical about falling in love, finding your voice and living
for today opens at 8 pm July 5 for a seven-show run Fridays and Saturdays through July 20 and Monday
July 15 at Aurora Community Theatre, 115 E. Pioneer Trail.

 

Winner of the Tony Award for “Best Musical” and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, RENT has become a pop
culture phenomenon. Loosely based on Puccini's opera La Bohème, Jonathan Larson’s RENT is set in
modern times and follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians
struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. 

 

Denise Astorino directs this stirring musical that the New York Times calls an “exhilarating,
landmark rock opera” with musical direction by Jon Krol and choreography by Mary Lee Baker. Marianne
Paul and Lexie Haubrich serve as co-producers, 

 

The plot revolves around the lives of eight key characters played by young local actors: Scott
Zolkowski (Angel), Chris Hatala (Benny), Anthony Williams (Collins), Courtney Marshall (Joanne),
John Doyle (Mark), Jordan Renee Malin (Maureen), Emily Schrader (Mimi) and Adam Kapis (Roger).

 

A strong ensemble of talented performers including Greta Rothman, Anthony Covatta, Alex Orvosh,
Jennifer Cull, Shannon Sharkey, Rachel Roth and Nick Alder showcase the play’s diverse popular music
featuring electric rock, salsa, Motown, bebop and reggae, with respectful nods to Stephen Sondheim
and Burt Bacharach. 

            

 

Cody Steele and Christi Labib head up behind-the-scenes duties as co-stage managers, Craig Kollai
designed the lighting with Austin Hopson on the lighting board. Maggie Hamilton is in charge of
sound. Marianne Gingras was in charge of costumes, and Paul Chechak constructed the sets.

 

RENT was first seen in a limited three-week workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in
1994. This same off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official
January 25, 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly the night before the
off-Broadway premiere. RENT moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996, where
it gained critical acclaim closing on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances,
the ninth longest-running Broadway show at the time, and grossing over $280 million. The show’s
success led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005 it was adapted into
a motion picture that features most of the original cast members.

The show’s theme of love striving to endure beyond all obstacles remains current for all
generations.

 

“Indeed, this vigorous tale of a marginal band of artists in Manhattan's East Village, a
contemporary answer to La Bohème, rushes forward on an electric current of emotion that is anything
but morbid.” New York Times

 

AUDIENCE ADVISORY: This play contains coarse language and adult subject matter.

 

RENT is presented with permission from Music Theatre International.  

 

Tickets at $16 for adults are available online, including seat selection, at
auroracommmunitytheatre.com <http://www.auroracommmunitytheatre.com/> , or call the box office at
330-562-1818. Group discounts are available by calling the box office. Opening night tickets include
a complimentary after-show gala and the opportunity to meet cast and crew. 

Aurora Community Theatre is located at 115 E. Pioneer Trail, near the intersection of SR 43 and 306,
at the gazebo, in the center of Aurora. ACT extends appreciation to The Denise G. & Norman E. Wells,
Jr. Family Foundation for their generous underwriting of the Wells Main Stage. 

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ACT, celebrating 54 successful seasons in 2013-14, annually presents three regular season shows, a
benefit play, a summer stock production plus two children’s summer workshops, reaching an annual
audience of nearly 7,000. ACT showcases the region’s top actors, musicians, costume and set
designers, construction, lighting, sound and backstage crews -- all of whom generously donate their
time and talent. 

 

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