Rent

Overview

Struggling to pay the rent is just part in parcel to the life of a 20 something. Many of us may whinge and complain about it, but very few break out into song. For the eight creative spirits in the musical Rent, the weekly board fee (amongst other life blows) in New York's lower east side is much to sing and dance about.

The iconic musical based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La boheme will be showing in Brisbane for the next few weeks at UQ's Schonell Theatre with an all Australian cast featuring James Gauci and Emma Taviani. If you're yet to bare witness to Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning musical then a heads up is in order. Rent isn't a musical with classic chorus lines and spirit fingers. It's a very unapologetically loud rock opera. Expect to hear electric guitar solos and up-beat harmonies. Expect to see unconventional love stories and controversial subject matters. There is no time for twee humour and puns in this free-spirited musical.

The Australian cast of the show have already flash mobbed Brisbane's Pancake Manor with an impromptu table dancing performance with notable applause, and that was only a taste of what's to come. Perhaps struggling with the rent isn't so bad after all?

Concession prices are $35, Adults are $42.