Bway Rent Veterans Kushnier, Parker, Manuel and Others Featured in World Tour

By: Nov. 07, 2005
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Jeremy Kushnier, Trey Ellet, John Eric Parker, Danielle Lee Greaves, Andy Senor and Caren Lyn Manuel, all of whom have appeared on Broadway in Rent, will take the musical on a 10th anniversary world tour that will launch on November 22nd in Singapore and will then play Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei and other cities.

Karen Mok, the half-Chinese performer who is a recording artist as well as film actress, will join those actors for the tour; she will play Mimi. The tour will star Kushnier as Roger, Ellet as Mark, Parker as Tom Collins, Greaves as Joanne, Senor as Angel and Manuel as Maureen, as well as Daryle C. Brown as Benny. A tour schedule will be announced soon.

With its groundbreaking rock score by Larson and a story that captured the current of its generation, Rent is set in late-90's New York (updated in its film version) in the East Village, where a group of artists love and live La Vie Boheme even under the shadow of poverty, failure, illness and death. The La Boheme-based show, which has been running at the Nederlander Theatre since its opening in 1996, won the Pultizer and the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as 3 others. Tragically, Larson died a few months before the show opened. It has since run over 3,900 performances on Broadway.

The film version of Rent will open in theaters nationwide on November 23rd. The film, which is directed by Chris Columbus (who adapted Larson's book with Stephen Chbosky), is a Columbia Pictures/Revolution Studios production; it will be released by Sony Pictures. The original cast--Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp--is intact but for Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker; their respective roles of Mimi and Joanne will be played by Rosario Dawson and Tracie Thoms.

For more information on the 10th anniversary world tour of Rent, visit www.rentworldtour.com.


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