Cleveland Strip Clubs: Kent State is one of the first colleges to perform Broadway hit ‘RENT’
Cast members rehearse for the musical ‘Rent’, which opens tomorrow at E. Turner Stump Theatre in the Music and Speech Building. Shows will run through Sunday, Nov. 8. Brittany Ankrom | Daily Kent Stater
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“Stop – we’re not gonna do ‘West Side Story,’” professor Terri Kent exclaimed as she found out the news via BlackBerry. “We have the rights to ‘RENT’!”
Set in the late 1980s in bohemian Alphabet City (a neighborhood in New York’s East Village), eight young artists struggle with love and drugs beneath the veil of the AIDS epidemic.
A gay anarchist, a drag queen street percussionist, a junky stripper, a musician hoping to write just one last meaningful song before he dies, a lesbian public-interest lawyer, a landlord and a bisexual performance artist tell their stories to the lens of a documentary filmmaker’s camera.