Friday, September 25, 1998 — North Shore News — 23

| Talking bout a hew generation

Rent rocks the Vogue

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costumes for Rent and those CURTAIN CALL : : : : : ‘ end for theumazic. pain:
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- “Make no mistake, this isa young person’s musical. Me, ;
.Qh sure, most of us middle-aged parents cancom- THE dynamic young members of the Rent touring company will be: rocking the ro

: pare it to the rock operas of our generation like. The Vogue Theatre until at least Nov. 1.

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* don from La Bokeme). But we're not going to rush calculated indifference (self-protection) in a New York The Vancouver band under thé musical direction”
_from the theatre claiming this show as an anthem to ghetto of poverty. of Rick Fox might consider touring as rock gods
Peron s sival as and friendship in the face of societal. ._A former friend is now the landlord of the build- Rent moves on. They are truly: great with lead’ gui
ference... . ing where they used to share the rent. He now wants —_tarist Harris Van Berkel simply outstanding. .
Ay younger : audience. to evict the tenants of his urban trash heap as well as There is no weak linkin this rouring company.
the squatters in the tent city on the vacant lot next there was a missed note I'didn’e hear it and their, ener.
; . door. gy never slacked. . ;
i fork produc < That’s nor water they are sharing but the drug
become a tradition: the fi ‘ofp tows of seats AZT. No less than four of this quirky band of squar-
ters, activists and struggling a artists are
HLLV. positive.
- Atleast onc will die before the show is
aver.
“Tt may, on the face of it, sound dark
and drear but Rent is anything bur. The
situation is less the issue than how the
~- characters cope and survive.
~ Anger, passion and mot jonal sincerity
are relentless driving forces while Larson’s
stylings areas inventive and varied
ium: of an on-stage pop/rock
band will allow. Besides enined of Sond rock, I

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