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Rent at Shea's Buffalo

Based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, RENT tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive in New York City’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian culture under the shadow of AIDS.   

The musical originally brought an ethnically diverse cast and controversial topics to light, helping to increase the popularity of musical theater among the younger generation. The Broadway production closed this past September after a 12-year run and 5,124 performances, making it one of the longest running Broadway shows.  At the time of its closing, it was the second longest-running musical playing on Broadway, six years behind The Phantom of the Opera.  The success of the show has led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions, and in 2005, it was adapted into a major motion picture.

Special rush seats in the orchestra pit will be made available for $20 for every performance on the day of the performance, two hours prior to show time, and will be made available to the general public for cash only with a limit of two tickets per person.  The tradition of the $20 tickets was started in New York when the show moved to Broadway after a sold-out run in a small downtown theatre.  Since that time people have lined up as early as the night before to guarantee their purchase of the $20 tickets.  The producers of the show are committed to continuing the tradition of offering orchestra seats for $20 in each city the show will play.

Shea’s Performing Arts Center is Buffalo’s premier performing arts establishment.  For more information, visit www.sheas.org

 

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