11th Hour Theatre Company is taking a big leap forward as it opens its sixth season. The all-musical theatre company is pleased to open the season with Jonathan Larson's modern classic, Rent. The show will be presented at Drexel's Mandell Theater, 33rd & Chestnut Streets, from November 5th - 21st, 2010 during 11th Hour's Residency with the Mandell Professionals In Residence Program at Drexel University. The company hopes to close its season with The Great American Trailer Park Musical in June pending the acquisition of the rights. Tickets will be available at www.11thhourtheatrecompany.org or by calling the box office at 267-987-9865.
For 11th Hour, the beginning of this season is a nod back to their beginning. The company made its professional debut in Philadelphia with a production of Jonathan Larson's tick, tick...Boom!. This production of Rent will feature 10 professional actors with eight students from Drexel. This production will be directed by 11th Hour's Resident Director and one of the three company founders, Megan Nicole O'Brien. 11th Hour co-founder and Barrymore Award winner, Michael Phillip O'Brien is portraying isolated songwriter Roger and 11th Hour co-founder and triple 2010 Barrymore nominee, Steve Pacek is playing disconnected filmmaker and narrator Mark. The company is currently finishing casting the rest of the ensemble.The show is a 1996 Pulitzer Prize, Tony, OBIE, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama League Award Winner. Rent is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera "La Bohème." While creating the piece, Larson took the central storyline of Puccini's masterpiece and placed the characters in 1990s New York City. Throughout the course of this modern classic, characters fall in and out of love, discover how to live their lives in the moment, and realize the importance of the people they care about. The show garnered fast headlines for its message of "No Day But Today," after the sudden death of Larson on the eve of the show's Off-Broadway opening.About 11th Hour Theatre Company
11th Hour Theatre Company is a not-for-profit company committed to expanding one of the truly great American art forms...musical theatre. As one of only two companies in the city dedicated to producing musical theatre, 11th Hour focuses on the intimate relationship that forms between artist and audience when music, theatre and dance come together to entertain, educate and inspire.
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