Rent 2024: Show Dates, Ticket Prices + What You Need to Know
It is written by Jonathan Larson, who also wrote tick, tick...BOOM!.
(SPOT.ph) One of the most popular show tunes in musical theater is "Seasons of Love." The opening notes to "525,600 minutes"are easy enough to remember or hum. So when the cast of 9 Works Theatrical's tick, tick...BOOM! sung the Broadway hit during their curtain call on Sunday night, September 3, everyone knew that the theater company's producing Rent by Jonathan Larson in 2024. It was later announced that opening day is on April 20 at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, in Makati.
What we know so far about 9 Works Theatrical's production of Rent by Jonathan Larson:
The theater company also posted a video of the curtain call online. It shows 9 Works Theatrical Artistic Director and tick, tick...BOOM! director Robbie Guevara introducing the "sneak peek of [their] next musical." The six-cast member of tick, tick...BOOM!, including Khalil Ramos and Jef Flores, performed "Seasons of Love." Reb Atadero quipped that should serve as their audition for the next show.
Rent and tick, tick...BOOM! were both written by Jonathan Larson. tick, tick...BOOM! was initially performed as a workshop production in 1990, much like how Suburbia was within the three-cast play. A more polished version, which featured additional work by David Auburn, premiered Off-Broadway in 2001. It's semi-autobiographical, chronicling Larson's own experience as an aspiring composer in New York City.
Rent, on the other hand, premiered at the New York Theatre Workshop on January 25, 1996, then went to Broadway on April 29 in the same year. Set in the East Village of New York City during the 1990s, it is loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème and follows the lives of a diverse group of friends and artists (the "bohemians") amid the issues of poverty, love, the AIDS epidemic, and—well—rent.
9 Works Theatrical last produced Rent in the first quarter of 2011, when it starred Gian Magdangal (as Roger), Sheree Bautista (as Mimi), Fredison Lo (as Mark), OJ Mariano (as Tom), Job Bautista (as Angel), Jenny Villegas (as Joanne), Lorenz Martinez (as Benjamin), and Carla Guevara-Laforteza (as Maureen).
Rent 2024 Cast
9 Works Theatrical's 2024 production of Rent features Anthony Rosaldo as Roger, Molly Langley and Thea Astley alternating for the role of Mimi, Ian Pangilinan and Reb Atadero alternating for the role of Mark, Justine Peña and Jasmine Fitzgerald alternating as Maureen, Garrett Bolden as Tom Collins, Adrian Lindayag and Lance Reblando alternating as Angel, Mica Fajardo and Fay Castro alternating as Joanne, Markki Stroem as Benny, and Guji Lorenzana as Benny/ Mr. Johnson. Stroem will also play the role of Tom Collins on selected days.
Rounding up the cast are Abi Sulit as Pam, Jordan Andrews as Gordono, Misha Fabian as Ally, Chesko Rodriguez and Paul Valdez alternating as Steve, Kai Banson as Alexi Darling, and Vyen Villanueva as Paul.
Show Dates for Rent
Rent runs from April 20 (Saturday) to May 24 (Friday).
Rent 2024 Ticket Prices
Based on Ticket2Me, ticket prices for Rent are as follows:
- Orchestra Center Premium - P4,000
- Orchestra Center - P3,800
- Orchestra Center Front - P3,500
- Orchestra Side - P3,600
- Orchestra Side Zone 2 - P3,400
- Loge Center - P3,600
- Loge Side - P3,400
- Loge Back - P3,400
- Balcony - P2,000
Rent runs from April 20 to May 24 at Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, 4/F RCBC Plaza, Makati City. Tickets, with prices ranging from P2,000 to P4,000, are available through Ticket2Me and showbuyers.