Book, Music, & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson
Since its Broadway debut in 1996, this story of love, friendship and a pandemic is still relevant today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the late Jonathan Larson’s Rent has become a cultural phenomenon that shaped a generation. Loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Rent is a rock musical set in the 1990s in New York City’s East Village. This story of “sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll”, which is recommended for audience members 17+, has some very powerful and positive messages about living for today and measuring life in love (“Seasons of Love”), but the darker shadows of the AIDS epidemic, drug addiction, and the gentrification of Alphabet City loom over this group of young artists as they struggle to survive. Will these friends – a documentary filmmaker looking for his story, a musician trying to write one last song (“One Song Glory”), a stripper with a secret, an anarchist professor, an activist actress, a liberal lawyer, and a drumming drag queen be able to make the rent and still keep living “La Vie Bohème”? Experience the power of living in no day but today (“Another Day”).
Rent Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Cast and Crew
* indicates Missoula Community Series debut
Directors: Joseph Martinez and Kera Rivera
Musical Director: Greg Bolin
Choreographer: Christine Kowalchik
Accompanist: Denise Harmon
Stage Manager: Rebecca Jefferson
Scenic Design: Blain Radford
Scenic Artists: Abbey Mosley, Blain Radford and Aurrora Watkins
Costume Design: Ellie Buick
Costume Second Hand: Renee Crow
Lighting Design: Abbey Mosely
Properties Master: Lesley Washburn
Sound Design: Gregory Boris
Wigs: Penny Miller
Projections: Blain Radford
Production Manager: Theresa K Jenson
Intimacy Coach: Mark Plonsky and Whitney Miller
Light Board Operator: Barb Fortunate
Sound Board Operator: McCabe Thomas
Spot Light Operators: Tim Stoops, Alex Freedman, Sarah Hibbard and Kaaren James
Deck Manager: Alexis Elensky
Deck Crew: James Cox
Mark – Jacob Logan*
Roger – David Blanchard*
Angel – Enrique Mendez
Collins – Timothy Shonkwiler
Joanne – Kateena Bell*
Maureen – Lucy Taylor
Mimi – Patience Cofrin-White
Benny – NonnyMax*
COMPANY
Aiden Agostinelli*
Jadi Rae Curtis
Andy Nelson
Jaime Curtin
Bo Henderson*
Joey Moore*
Carlyn Schulzke
Mikayla Kay
Cheyenne Brown*
Nick Monsos
Gabriela Flores *
Kera Rivera
Hallie Racicot
Wyatt Guerrero*
