Stratford Festival Shaw Festival Edm. From the time it was first coined to describe Jesus Christ Superstar, it's been a union of two words at odds with each other. Rent legitimizes the term once and for all. This is a musical with the scope and scale, the power and the glory of opera. Instead of drunks there are drugs.
Poverty remains a constant.
Mark is a struggling filmmaker. Roger is a musician whose career was sidelined by drugs, illness and the recent suicide of his HIV-positive girlfriend. That crisis is compounded by others. That joy is manifest in the voices assembled here. Like the melting-pot milieu of the East Village, each voice has a different style.