Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre Announced Production of 'RENT'

From the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre:

Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre continues its 50th anniversary season on June 30 with "RENT," the groundbreaking 1996 musical about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. The show runs Thursdays to Sundays and select Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. from June 30 to July 23. Tickets are $22 and are available online.

Exuberant, passionate and joyous, "RENT" is a pop culture phenomenon. With a book, music, and lyrics by the late Jonathan Larson, "RENT" won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Pulitzer Prize for Drama and is one of Broadway’s longest-running shows. Based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme and set in the East Village of New York City, "RENT" follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists. Struggling to survive and create under the shadows of addiction and HIV/AIDS, these young bohemians negotiate their dreams and conflicts through rocking songs and a gripping story.

Returning to direct "RENT" is Andy Scott, director of ASGT’s 2015 production of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Andy is a graduate of Greensboro College with a B.A. in Theatre Directing. Favorite directing credits include "The Mousetrap" (Johns Hopkins University), :Are You Ready to Get PAMPERED!?" (Dixon Place), "The Brothers Savage" (Manhattan Repertory Theater), "Carve" (Greensboro College Mainstage), "Pieces of Fire and Miss Julie" (Greensboro College Lab) and projects with the Powerhouse Apprentice Company and the National Theater Institute. Andy received a departmental award (Best Direction) and a SDC Student Directing nomination from the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. He has been an assistant director at Triad Stage and Powerhouse Theater and worked with the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Roundhouse Theatre and the North Carolina Theatre Conference, among others.

Andy says, “I am humbled and excited to be warmly welcomed back to ASGT this year. I love how the ASGT Board encourages collaboration among the artists and how open they are to unconventional ideas. 'RENT' turns 20 in 2016, but still embraces challenges of today and tomorrow. It is exuberant in its style, tragic in its humanity and uplifting by message. Directing this work at ASGT will bring unique challenges that I’m thrilled to tackle."

"RENT" is rated R and contains mature thematic material including drugs, sexuality and some language. Parental discretion is advised.

ASGT is an outdoor community theater presenting musical theatre (featuring live music) in a unique, outdoor setting in historic Annapolis. New volunteers are always welcome.

Further information is available through the Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre website.