GROUNDBREAKING rock musical Rent is at Birmingham's Old Rep between Tuesday and Saturday.
Jonathan Larson’s exuberant East Village 190s reinvention of Puccini’s opera La Bohème won the Tony Award for best musical as well as the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Larson’s stirring score captures the heart and spirit of a generation of struggling artists, addicts, and impoverished young people living in the shadow of AIDS, battling the coming wave of gentrification.
A time capsule of a world where hope crawls out of dark despair, these Bohemians find the salvation of love within each other and prove there can be a better world where art thrives, and everything good is free.
Rent was revived twice in London and is the seventh-longest-running Broadway show in history.
Rent is at The Birmingham Old Rep from Tuesday July 26 until Saturday July 30 and for more information visit www.rentthemuscial.co.uk.
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