Andy Señor Jr. took the Broadway production of the Rent musical to Cuba in 2014. The stage play director and filmmaker Victor Patrick Alvarez documented their struggles in bringing the musical to Cuba, and revisiting their parent's homeland in the new HBO documentary, Revolution Rent, executive produced by Neil Patrick Harris. Adding to the pressure was their families' disapproval of them going to the Communist country. ...
- 6/18/2021
- by luperhaas@cinemovie.tv (Lupe R Haas)
- CineMovie
In December 2014, Andy Señor Jr., a member of the original Broadway cast of “Rent,” staged the beloved musical in his native Cuba. It was the country’s first American production in 50 years and its last since. Señor’s new Neil Patrick Harris-produced documentary, “Revolution Rent,” details the process of preparing the show amid personal and political complications.
A tale of impoverished NYC artists struggling to survive against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, “Rent” became a generation-defining musical following its 1996 premiere. The show’s rock sound, diverse cast and taboo themes resonated with a whole new audience of theatergoers who did not see themselves in the Disney adaptations and old-school revivals that dominated Broadway in the 1990s.
Señor originated the role of Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen percussionist who if you’re familiar with his namesake from “La Boheme” – the opera the Tony-winning musical is loosely based...
A tale of impoverished NYC artists struggling to survive against the backdrop of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, “Rent” became a generation-defining musical following its 1996 premiere. The show’s rock sound, diverse cast and taboo themes resonated with a whole new audience of theatergoers who did not see themselves in the Disney adaptations and old-school revivals that dominated Broadway in the 1990s.
Señor originated the role of Angel Dumott Schunard, a drag queen percussionist who if you’re familiar with his namesake from “La Boheme” – the opera the Tony-winning musical is loosely based...
- 6/16/2021
- by Alex Noble
- The Wrap
December 24, 2014 — not exactly at 9 p.m. eastern standard time — certainly capped off Andy Señor Jr. shooting without a script in Havana, Cuba as he staged a production of Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” and shot behind-the-scenes footage for what eventually became the documentary “Revolution Rent.”
Opening the show on Christmas Eve certainly became a gift, not only to the Cuban theater company he put together for the production and the local people the show touched once it was mounted, but for Señor himself, who took his career to the next level by directing the documentary alongside Victor Patrick Alvarez.
“It doesn’t matter what I do in my career, no matter what’s going on, if there’s an opportunity to do ‘Rent,’ I hope to always have this in my life,” Señor tells Variety. “There’s nothing more special than to see a group of actors discover not only the...
Opening the show on Christmas Eve certainly became a gift, not only to the Cuban theater company he put together for the production and the local people the show touched once it was mounted, but for Señor himself, who took his career to the next level by directing the documentary alongside Victor Patrick Alvarez.
“It doesn’t matter what I do in my career, no matter what’s going on, if there’s an opportunity to do ‘Rent,’ I hope to always have this in my life,” Señor tells Variety. “There’s nothing more special than to see a group of actors discover not only the...
- 6/15/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
It was never a question that Andy Señor Jr. was going to be the one to put up Rent in Havana, the first Broadway production to be performed on the island in decades. But first thing’s first: Figure out how he was going to explain to his family why he was so willing to go back to a country they fled half a century ago.
“When I got the call, the decision wasn’t, am I going to go or not? It was, ‘I’m definitely going’,” he tells Rolling Stone.
“When I got the call, the decision wasn’t, am I going to go or not? It was, ‘I’m definitely going’,” he tells Rolling Stone.
- 6/15/2021
- by Sage Anderson
- Rollingstone.com
Daphne Rubin-Vega’s face may be on an “In the Heights” billboard on 41st Street in Times Square, but her son isn’t so impressed. “He is 16, so I am not the coolest person at all on the planet,” Rubin-Vega tells me. “I’m like, ‘Just so you know, I’m the most badass mom you could ever have.’ He just gives me this look and goes, ‘Yeah, well, next time try for 42nd Street.’ My family keeps me on my toes.”
Joking aside, Rubin-Vega appreciates what seeing a film about a Latino community could mean to aspiring Brown performers. She says she had few role models to aspire to. For example, she loved watching “The Sound of Music,” but Julie Andrews was “the last person” she thought of when dreaming of becoming an actor. “I just wanted to achieve that feeling — whatever that was that she was doing when...
Joking aside, Rubin-Vega appreciates what seeing a film about a Latino community could mean to aspiring Brown performers. She says she had few role models to aspire to. For example, she loved watching “The Sound of Music,” but Julie Andrews was “the last person” she thought of when dreaming of becoming an actor. “I just wanted to achieve that feeling — whatever that was that she was doing when...
- 6/9/2021
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
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