RENT: A story about AIDS

RENT is the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

This February, season of love, RENT is set to open this coming Feb. 12 at the RCBC plaza. Gian Magdangal leads the cast as Roger Davis, a songwriter who is HIV positive, with Fred Lo as Mark Cohen, an independent filmmaker and Roger's roommate and Sheree/Ciara Sotto as Mimi Márquez, an exotic dancer with HIV.

The cast will also feature OJ Mariano as Tom Collins, a gay philosophy professor and anarchist with AIDS; Carla Guevara-Laforteza as Maureen Johnson, a bisexual performance artist; Lawrence as Benjamin 'Benny' Coffin III, the local landlord and a former room mate of Roger, Mark, Collins, and Maureen; Job Bautista as Angel Dumott Schunard, a gay drag queen percussionist with AIDS and Jenny Villegas as Joanne Jefferson, a lawyer, who is Maureen's partner.

Show dates of RENT are Feb 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, March 4,5 and 6
Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 8:00 pm
Saturdays at 3:30 pm and Sundays at 4:30 pm.
Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza , Ayala Corner Sen. Gil Puyat Avenues, Makati City.

For tickets call 557. 5860, 586. 7105 or 0917-5545560 or visit
www.9workstheatrical.com or call Ticketworld at 891.9999