This month I returned to the theater with my friend Cheryl to see the musical Rent.
We went to Theater Charlotte, a local community group that puts on several shows a year. It was amazing.
The theater itself is adorable. It only holds a small crowd and is a casual atmosphere. It felt like the performers were singing right to us.
Rent is about a lot of things: Love, friendship, poverty, AIDS. Most importantly, rent is about life and death. How do you live your best life? What does your life mean? How does your life impact others?
I don't think I am spoiling anything by saying one of the friends in the group, Angel, dies of AIDS. Angel, full of life and love, leaves behind a grieving, fractured group of friends who have to decide how to carry on and make the most of their lives.
This show made me laugh and made me cry. It is a bit provocative.
An interesting thing about the musical Rent is that it's writer Jonathan Larson died of a sudden heart attack before the show hit Broadway. So, how do you measure a life?
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