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Tracey Bonner, shown in 2000 at the Lexington Opera House, will make her Arboretum directorial debut with SummerFest's production of 'Rent.' Herald-Leader file photo by Sam Richie.
You don’t have to wait five-hundred, twenty-five thousand, six-hundred minutes for the first local production of “Rent” in Central Kentucky.
SummerFest will present Jonathan Larson’s groudbreaking Broadway musical July 21 to 25 at the Arboretum on Alumni Drive to close out a lineup that includes William Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” July 7 to 11 and Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” July 14 to 18.
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Ave Lawyer (left), shown in rehearsals for Studio Players' 2003 production of "Proof." HL file photo by Joseph Rey Au.
In addition to being the first local production of “Rent,” 2010 will also be the first SummerFest/Lexington Shakespeare Festival to feature an all-female lineup of directors. Ave Lawyer will open the fest with “Venice,” Sullivan Canaday White will direct “Pride” and Tracey Bonner will make her Arboretum directing debut with “Rent.”
Auditions for “Venice” and “Pride” will be March 26 to 28 and “Rent” will be April 9 to 11at the Schmidt Vocal Arts Center, across from the Singletary Center for the Arts on the University of Kentucky campus. All are welcome to audition, and Summerfest is specifically looking for rock vocalists for “Rent.”
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Sullivan Canaday White, photographed at Actors Theatre of Louisville in 2002. HL file photo by John Sommers II.
For more information on SummerFest, go to the SummerFest website.
In addition to the SummerFest lineup, the Kentucky Classical Theatre Conservatory, which presents SummerFest, announced today that it has received a $49,000 grant from the Lucille Little Foundation to expand its educational programs to a year-round schedule. KCTC said it will announce a lineup of workshops for high school students through adults later this month, starting with a three-day musical theater intensive in January.
