Students Stage 'Rent' at The Northbrook Theatre
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tudents put on a dazzling performance of the musical 'Rent' at the Northbrook Theatre this month.
The show was performed by Northbrook’s Musical Theatre degree students, with scenery, lighting and costumes by Northbrook’s Theatre Production degree students.
Rent is a Rock Opera, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson. In essence, it is a modern retelling of Puccini’s La Boheme, telling the story of a year in the lives of young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side during the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of AIDS.