RENT OVERVIEW

RENT The Musical
By; Alex W

Rock Opera

The Plot

This rock opera based on Pucini's La Boheme ,tells the story of one year in the life of a group of bohemians struggling with poverty , unemployment and money  in modern day East Village New York. The story centers around Mark a film maker and Roger a musican and song writer , two roommates. While the tragedy of loosing his girlfriend to suicide Roger is numb to life. Mark tries to capture it through his attempts to make a film. In the year that follows, the group deals with love, loss, AIDS, and modern day life in a truly powerful and boheminan story.

 

I play the part of Tom Collins the life of the party  , a gay computer-age philosipher who lectures at a university . He is fired by the head of the university for his Boheminan views that he preaches to the university students. He suffers from A.I.DS and often does the occasinal drug here and there. When he is on the way to his old room mates appartment he is betean up for the fact that he is gay . He meets a charcter called Angel who is a gay drag queen , she helps him back to health and becomes part of the alphabet city gang . Sadly Collins looses Angel to A.I.DS before her time. She showed the group love and kindness and picked Collins up from a very dark place in his life . He dosen't let her death stop him , if she tought him anything its to carry on in life happy and with love . He gets a new job and has the compassion and kindess of his friends who will always be there for him.