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Tuesday Dec 1 | BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

The Opera House Players Hosts Auditions For RENT 12/6, 12/7

AUDITIONS FOR HIT MUSICAL "RENT" Broad Brook Opera House, Broad Brook, CT. The Opera House Players announces open auditions for the Pulitzer and Tony Award Winning Musical RENT by Jonathan Larson .

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Related Topix: Broad Brook, CT

Sat Nov 28, 2009

StarTribune

OnStage: New 'Heights' for Latin culture

What: Music and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed by Thomas Kail.

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Related Topix: Salsa, Alegria, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Theater, Arts, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, Entertainment

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Review: Original stars lead dynamic "Rent" cast

Nov. 25, 2009 9:02 a.m. "Rent," Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is credited with bringing a new generation to musical theater.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Rent, Musical Movies, 9, Musical Theater, Theater, Arts, Anthony Rapp

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Playbill

Rent Facebook Page Gets Mashable Nom

"Everything Is Rent ," the official Facebook page for fans of the Jonathan Larson musical, is among the nominees for the 2009 Open Web Awards from the social media and news blog Mashable.com. With over 58,000 fans, the "Everything Is Rent " fan page still has stiff competition in its nominated category.

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Related Topix: Social Software

Sun Nov 22, 2009

BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content

Photo Flash: Trustus & Front End Audio Presents RENT

Trustus & Front End Audio & AT&T, THE REAL YELLOW PAGES and THE TALKING PHONE BOOK, Present The Trustus 25th Anniversary Season Rent, Book, Music and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson , Musical Arrangements Original Concept/Additional Lyrics, Steve Skinner Billy Aronson , Music Supervision and Additional Arrangements Dramaturg Tim Weil Lynn Thomson Cast ...

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Rent, Musical Movies, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Aiken, Arts, Dance

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Examiner.com

a New Lease on 'Rent' - Snap! Theatre Production Has Many Good Qualities

I must admit that I am one of the cold-hearted few who did not rave about the original Broadway production of Rent and was disappointed by the touring company.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Rent, Theater, Arts, Opera

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Omaha World-Herald

a Renta good fit for SNAP

Todd Brooks had been watching online for months, waiting for the release of amateur rights to the musical "Rent." He surprised even himself when he snagged them in February, making tiny SNAP Productions the metro area's first theater to stage Jonathan Larson's rock musical.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Rent, Musical Movies, Jazz, Theater, Arts, Opera, Omaha, NE

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Examiner.com

'Rent' brings a welcome touch of grit to downtown Mesa's pristine Main Street

When asked about his plans for the future, Jonathan Larson, the creator of Rent , answered with a quiet confidence, "I'm going to change the face of musical theatre." Many would say he did.

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Thu Nov 12, 2009

Chico Enterprise-Record

Theater review: 'Rent' raises roof at Butte College theater

The Butte College Performing Arts cast, crew and band "owned" "Rent," Jonathan Larson's Tony Award winning Broadway musical, from the moment the "lights went down and the curtain went up" in the college's new black box theater on opening night, Nov.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Rent, Theater, Arts, East Village (New York, NY), HIV/AIDS, Health, Entertainment

Tue Nov 10, 2009

SFGate

Elton John, Billy Joel concert postponed

Elton John has postponed a concert scheduled for Saturday at the Oracle Arena in Oakland because of a bacterial infection and influenza, said promoter Live Nation.

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Related Topix: Theater, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Melton Today

Rock musical Rent comes to Melton Theatre

They recently performed at the regional film premiere of Fame and now Brooksby Melton College's performing arts students are to stage the musical Rent at the newly refurbished Melton Theatre.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Chapel Hill News

Raising 'Rent'

Company Carolina actors rehearse at UNC's Center for Performing Arts for their upcoming show, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical, 'Rent.' Photo by Jenny Tenney If You Go Company Carolina presents "Rent" November 6-8 and12-14 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public, $7 for UNC faculty and staff, $5 for ...

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Raleigh Metro, Chapel Hill, NC, Coats, NC

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Appleton Post-Crescent

Review: Rent at Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton spectacular in every way

Review: 'Rent' at Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton spectacular in every way By Carrie T. Gruman-Trinkner * For The Post-Crescent * November 4, 2009 The headline tour of 'Rent' has finally arrived at the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center in Appleton.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Rent, Musical Movies, Appleton, WI, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Arts, Opera

Chapel Hill News

East presents 'school edition' of musical

Company Carolina's production of "Rent" isn't the only one being staged locally this month.

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Tue Nov 03, 2009

HomeTownLife.com

Pipeline

'Rent' benefit Destination Theatre presents Rent, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boheme, at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill, in Canton.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Canton, MI, Ypsilanti, MI, Plymouth, MI, Wayne County, MI

Sun Nov 01, 2009

HomeTownLife.com

canton Connection

'Rent' benefit Destination Theatre presents Rent, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boheme, at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill, in Canton.

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Related Topix: Canton, MI, Theater, Arts, Opera, Ypsilanti, MI

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Journal-Register

THEATER: 'tick, tick ... BOOM!' set to explode at NU

By Phil Dzikiy Gregory Fletcher had mixed feelings the first time he saw Jonathan Larson's "tick, tick ... BOOM!" Though the Niagara University theater director enjoyed the rock musical and the score was "absolutely gorgeous," he found himself wishing there were more cast members.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Attention Must Be Paid

Theater auditions: Jonathan Larson musical (what could it be?) at G.O.A.T.

Here's one of the odder audition notices I've received recently. Greater Orlando Actors Theatre isn't allowed to say what show it's doing -- but you can rest assured that Jonathan Larson's only Tony-winning musical was Rent : Greater Orlando Actors Theatre announces auditions for its next full-length musical production, a recent Tony-Award winning ...

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Orlando, FL

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Edge San Francisco

Rhino returns... all over town

Rhino's return will be, by design and necessity, a modest one as far as a 2009-10 schedule is concerned, and will be presented at four venues as a search for a permanent home continues.

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Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Gay/Lesbian

Wed Oct 14, 2009

ShowBizRadio

Winters Lane Productions Rent

Rent by Jonathan Larson Winters Lane Productions Mt. Vernon Place, United Methodist Church, Washington DC Through October 24th $18 2:15, with one intermission Reviewed October 10th, 2009 Many are familiar with Jonathan Larson's Rent .

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Related Topix: East Village (New York, NY), New York

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