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From the team that brought you the rave success “Gypsy” and “Chicago”. High Flying Productio
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High Flying Productions was founded by James and Vanessa Buckley in 2016. Their idea came about as James worked in the performing business and missed doing full productions. As a professional dancer/singer he knew many professionals who felt the same but couldn’t take time out of a professional working life to commit to six months of rehearsals for an amateur show.
High Flying’s first production of Gypsy was a complete sell out and had members of the audience out of their seats at every finale. Chicago attracted yet more professional performers and sold out before it opened. So how to top two sell out shows is the question? Let’s tackle something different - a rock musical with many messages. RENT...
RENT shows the empathetic reach of the writing, the generosity of spirit driving both words and music. Larson lived among and loved the people he was writing about, ached for their losses, expressed their fears, dreams and everyday indignities in sharp lyrics and evocative melodies that we know will draw on our patrons in the forms of pop and rock sounds.
Larson’s book and lyrics are steeped in references to the physical and psychological struggles faced by people with AIDS in the 1980s and ’90s, before the drug cocktails that have made the disease more manageable. Four of the play’s main characters — the heroin-addicted Mimi; her ex-heroin-addict boyfriend, Roger; the black activist, Tom Collins; and his lover, Angel — are H.I.V.-positive. The musical also includes a sequence set at a support group for people with H.I.V. or AIDS. One of the show’s most moving songs — “Will I?” — consists of just three questions set to a simple, mournful, gently shaped melody, sung not by the principal characters but by the more anonymous members of the support group:
