Saturday, 8/10/2024
at 7:00 PM


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On the way from the second to the third school year, the students at Stage School Hamburg traditionally work independently on a musical production. In 2024, as part of the semester project, the students are excited to bring the musical RENT to the stage of the First Stage Theater.

New York - Lower East Side - an industrial loft: Roger has just come out of rehab. He wants to write one last big song before he dies of AIDS. His roommate Mark focuses on filmmaking after Maureen left him for a lawyer. Their former roommate, now the landlord, demands the rent for the last year despite other promises and threatens to evict them in order to turn the building into a high-end art studio. Maureen organizes a protest to fight against it.
Drag queen Angel finds Collins beaten up on the street and a growing affection develops between them as they both reveal their AIDS diagnosis. Mimi, also suffering from AIDS, tries to persuade Roger to go on a date with her. He is still grieving his recently deceased ex-girlfriend and wants nothing to do with Mimi's drug addiction.

The rock musical RENT is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera "La Bohème" and is set in New York in the time before the millennium. It emerged from a workshop with exclusively young performers and premiered in 1996. The music set a new milestone in the musical genre and continues to influence musical theater to this day. RENT was awarded the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Original Music, as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Best Drama. Author and composer Jonathan Larson focused on realistic characters and addressed taboo topics of the time such as AIDS and suppressed homosexuality, which contributed to RENT's success.

Book, lyrics, and music by JONATHAN LARSON
German version by WOLFGANG ADENBERG

Show duration: approximately 140 minutes including intermission

Please understand that NO admittance is possible after the start of the performance.

We would like to inform you that residential parking is available around the First Stage Theater. Visitors may also park in the area but must purchase a parking ticket between 9:00 am and 8:00 pm. The maximum parking duration is 3 hours.

We recommend using public transportation for your arrival and departure. The admission tickets already include the prices for this. The S-Bahn stops Königstraße and Altona Bahnhof are about a 10-15 minute walk away. Additionally, just a few minutes' walk from the theater is the bus stop Große Bergstraße, served by lines 16, 112, and 115.

Since August 1, 2023, we unfortunately cannot offer parking tickets for Print@Home customers anymore, as the parking lot on Virchowstraße has been closed.

Please note that jackets, coats, and bags (larger than DIN A4 format) must be handed in at the cloakroom for a fee. This rule is solely for the safety of our visitors.

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