04/01/2010
“Rent, the award-winning Broadway rock musical by Jonathan Larson, will be performed April 9-11 and April 16-18 in the Dowd Fine Arts Center Theatre.
Presented by the Performing Arts Department, stage times for “Rent” are at 8 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. on Sundays.
Tickets are $16 for the general public, $14 for senior citizens and SUNY staff, and $7 for college and high school students. Tickets are on sale at Jodi’s Hallmark Shop on Main Street, Cortland, with remaining seats on sale at the door. Because of the adult situations in the musical, “Rent” is recommended for mature audiences only. For more information, visit the Web site at www.cortland.edu/performingarts.
The musical, about young Bohemian artists living in Greenwich Village in the 1990s as they deal with love, sex, AIDS, drugs and death, opened Off Broadway in 1996 to rave reviews. It soon transferred to Broadway where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Musical and other citations. The musical ran on Broadway for more than 13 years and toured extensively for several years after that. A film version was released in 2005.
The SUNY Cortland production, Cortland County’s first of “Rent,” is directed and choreographed by Kevin Halpin. The cast of rebellious young characters is comprised of SUNY students, most of them musical theatre majors in the Performing Arts Department. Corine Aquilina is musical director, Howard Lindh is the scenic designer, Joel Pape designed the sound and lights, the costumes are by Mark Reynolds and Preston Marye is technical director.