RENT

The Acorn Youth Arts Theater and Film Production Program is proud to announce their upcoming performances of the musical RENT going up at the Barre Opera House June 20-22nd. Tickets are pay what you can and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. 

Performances are: 6/20 @ 7pm, 6/21 @ 2pm + 7pm, and 6/22 @ 2pm

RENT is Jonathan Larson's iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning musical that shaped a generation of audiences and taught us all to measure our life in love. 

Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT is about falling in love, finding your voice, creating community, supporting each other, and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, RENT has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages. 

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's RENT follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The physical and emotional complications of the disease pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom and Angel. Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble. Benny has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends. Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general. 

How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical. This is theatre at its best - exuberant, passionate and joyous. 

Acorn Youth Arts, Inc is a 501c3 nonprofit arts educational organization with a mission of bringing high quality arts opportunities to rural VT youth who otherwise wouldn’t have access to them. 

This production of RENT (Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jonathan Larson) is produced by special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI).