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How do you measure a year in the life?

New Line closes its 33rd season with Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize winning cultural phenomenon, the long-running rock opera Rent. This cheerfully transgressive, 1990s rock/pop riff on a classic story, set in New York City’s East Village, is best described in its creator's own words: “In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.”

A show about connection and healing seems like a story we need right now, maybe more than ever before.

Rent was nominated for a staggering ten Tony Awards and won four, including Best Musical, Best Score, and Best Book. It also won six Drama Desk Awards, three Obie Awards, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, an Outer Critics Circle Award, and a Drama League Award. And the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The original production ran more than twelve years and over five thousand performances — it's still one of the top ten longest running musicals in Broadway history — and the 2010 off Broadway revival, opening just three years after the original closed, ran another year.

The New Line cast includes Dereis Lambert (as Mark Cohen), Nathan Mecey (Roger Davis), Corrinna Redford (Mimi Marquez), Sarah Lueken (Maureen Johnson), Aarin Kamphoefner (Angel Dumott Schunard), Chris Moore (Tom Collins), Victoria Pines (Joanne Jefferson), Aaron Tucker (Benjamin Coffin III), and Ben Carlson, Rafael Da Costa, Chelsie Johnston, Brittany Kohl, Sofia McGrath, Rachel Parker, Adrienne Spann, Cade Sturgeon, and Lauren Tenenbaum.

The New Line production will be directed by Scott Miller and Chris Moore, with choreography by Chelsie Johnston, music direction by Randon Lane, scenic design by Rob Lippert, sound design by Ryan Day, and costume design by Zachary Thompson.

New Line last produced Rent in 2014. Rent is produced by arrangement with Music Theatre International, New York.

Praise for New Line's 2014 Production

“If you think you've seen Rent before, you really haven't.”
– Chris Gibson, BroadwayWorld

"A kind of immediacy it probably hasn’t had since its debut Off-Broadway."
– Rob Weinert-Kendt, American Theatre

“Bringing stunning characters furiously to life, in all their contradictions.”
– Richard Green, TalkinBroadway

“Sharp, incisive and viscerally moving. . . a masterpiece of stagecraft,
a composition as visually stunning as it is sonically powerful. . .
packed with unforgettable moments.”
– Paul Friswold, The Riverfront Times

"An intimate, emotionally charged production filled with memorable performances."
– Tina Farmer, KDHX

"The question was could New Line Theatre show me something the
national tour hadn’t? The answer came last Saturday night: Yes."
– Christopher Reilly, Alive Magazine

“A powerhouse evening of theater.” – Christopher Reilly Alive Magazine