Liverpool Empire Youth Musical Theatre Company present the multi-award-winning rock musical RENT! Following the success of last summer’s production of In The Heights, the incredibly talented cast of performers will bring to the stage Bruce Guthrie’s (Man to Man, The Last Mermaid) hit Broadway production.
This exhilarating, landmark musical tells the thrilling story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive in New York City’s East Village in the thriving days of Bohemian excess.
Inspired by Puccini’s classic opera La Bohème, RENT features unforgettable music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson including the much-loved songs Seasons of Love, Take Me or Leave Me and La Vie Bohème. Winner of four Tony® Awards, six Drama Desk Awards and the hugely prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it ran on Broadway for an astonishing 12 years.
Book, Music and Lyrics
Jonathan Larson
Musical Arrangements
Steve Skinner
Original Concept/Additional Lyrics
Billy Aronson
Music Supervision & Additional Arrangements
Tim Weil
Dramaturg
Lynn Thomson
RENT was originally produced in New York by New York Theatre Workshop and on Broadway by Jeffrey Seller, Kevin McCollum, Allan S. Gordon and New York Theatre Workshop
This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe)
All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI Europe
In 1866, Liverpool Empire began its life as The Prince of Wales Theatre and Opera House and was run by gas light and steam power. The name changed to what it is today in 1895, so has had its name for over 100 years. It went through many refurbishments, before being bought by ATG and the theatre now stands about a quarter size bigger than it originally stood.