RENT Comes To The Center for the Arts at Kayenta
– June 11-25, 2022 –
CFAK is proud to be presenting RENT, the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award Winning musical, this June 11-15, 2022, directed by Josh France. This award-winning production is an experience that fans of musical theatre should not miss! RENT gained critical acclaim on Broadway and won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. The show’s success led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions.
Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme, Jonathan Larson’s musical follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive in the East Village of New York City under the shadow of AIDS. It was indeed a reflection of his own experiences. He created this show in honor of friends that tested positive for HIV and later died from the onset of AIDS. Their names are forever immortalized within the script of Rent.
Jonathan worked diligently on this production for nearly a decade. He wrote over a hundred songs in his countless drafts of the script. His work eventually culminated in a fully funded Off-Broadway debut of RENT at the New York Theatre Workshop in 1996. Its public dress rehearsal was a major success that heralded an eagerly anticipated opening night the following evening. Jonathan Larson didn’t get to see it.
After the dress rehearsal, Jonathan headed home to his apartment immediately following an exciting interview with the New York Times. At around 12:30 AM, he put a kettle on to make some tea. Jonathan died shortly afterward from a dissecting aortic aneurysm, completely alone. He never knew how much RENT would change American musical theatre.
RENT was met with great acclaim from critics and casual theatre viewers alike. It received the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The New York Theatre Workshop run was extended, and immediately traveled to Broadway after closing night. Jonathan left an undying legacy as one of the greatest artists of the 20th-century.
The RENT cast at Center for the Arts at Kayenta is full of local professional talent. It includes Aaron Meadows as Mark, Aaron Naylor as Roger, Brookelyne Peterson as Mimi, Michael Iorg as Benny, Eliza Hall as Mauree, Angie Naylor as Joanne, Ronny Williams as Tom, Christhian Roa as Angel, Christine France, Courtnee Ramos, Coy Shinn, Eric Liebhardt, Lauren Sweat, and Samuel France.
Tickets for the performances will sell out fast! Don’t miss out; purchase your tickets online today!
RENT will run from June 16-25, 2022, with the curtain going up at 7:30 PM.
Tickets are $35 for adults and $10 for children and students.
Visit www.KayentaArts.com to purchase tickets, and for more information, call (435) 674-2787. KFAC is located at 881 Coyote Gulch Ct., Ivins, Utah 84738
