Hays High School presents the musical Rent: School Edition
Hays High Drama press release
This week, Hays High School presents the musical Rent: School Edition. HHS typically produces their musical in the fall, but in an effort to navigate the pandemic, decided to push the production to the tail end of the school year.
The show was cast the week before spring break, and students have been in rehearsal for the last seven weeks. The musical will open to the public on Thursday, May 13 at 7:30 p.m. at 12th Street Auditorium (323 W. 12th) in Hays. Subsequent performances are Friday, May 14 at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 15 at 7:30 p.m, and Sunday, May 16 at 2:00 p.m. all at 12th Street Auditorium. Tickets are $10 and available at www.ticketsource.us/hays-high-school and at the door.
When “Rent” opened at the Nederlander Theatre on Broadway 25 years ago next month, the likes of Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were all clamoring for tickets. David
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Into Broadway s creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon s helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way. Transposing Puccini s 100-year-old opera La Bohème into modern day Bohemia (19th-century Paris s Left Bank becomes late-20th-century New York s East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt