Direct from New York, The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning landmark American musical Rent, written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Michael Greif, is coming to the Lyric theatre at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wanchai for strictly limited season from December 13th,2005. The celebrated Broadway cast will also feature local star Karen Mok.

Tickets for all performances will go on sale from October 1st, 2005. Tickets may be purchased at the HK Ticketing Outlets, Tom Lee Music Stores or by the Ticket Purchase Hotline 31 288 288. Tickets can also be purchased online: www.hkticketing.com For corporate hospitality packages, please contact 2865 5858. Inspired by Puccini’s La Boheme, Rent is a joyous, breathtaking and often bittersweet musical that celebrates a community of artists as they struggle with the soaring hopes and tough realities of today’s world.
Rent, considered by many critics as the most exuberant and original American musical to come along in a decade and has single-handedly reinvigorated Broadway. Since its opening, Rent continues to take both the American and world theatrical markets by storm. Sweeping all major theater awards, including the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical as well as the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent captures the heart and spirit of a generation.
The show received its world premiere off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop on February 13, 1996 to ecstatic reviews. It rapidly became a sold-out hit. The show transferred to Broadway on April 29, 1996 and to this day malacontinues to play to standing room only audiences. On February 10, 2004, Rent surpassed Fiddler On The Roof to become the 10th longest running show in Broadway history. 
The most honored musical since A Chorus Line in 1976, Rent is only the fifth musical to ever win both the prestigious Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award for best musical.
The success of Rent is always tempered by the death of its creator, Jonathan Larson. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on the morning of January 25, 1996, just hours after Rent’s final dress rehearsal off-Broadway, and ten days before his 36th birthday.
Rent features musical direction by Tim Weil, choreography by Marlies Yearby, set design by Paul Clay, costume design by Angela Wendt and lighting design by Blake Burba. For more information of Rent please visit: www.siteforrent.com and www.renthongkong.com
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