The Musical 'Rent' Coming this Weekend to Avon

Avon Summer Theater's performance of the musical "Rent" (school edition) is playing at Avon High School Auditorium from Thursday through Saturday, July 24 to 26, at 7:30 p.m.

There's also a matinee performance on Sunday at 2 p.m. Avon Summer Theater is a part of Avon Public Schools.

Here's what the Avon Summer Theater website says about the performance:

Set in the East Village of New York City, RENT SCHOOL EDITION is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today.

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, it has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Based loosely on Puccini's La Boheme, RENT SCHOOL EDITION follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

How these young bohemians negotiate their dreams, loves, and conflicts provides the narrative thread to this groundbreaking musical.

This adaptation has been carefully done, working with the Larson estate to retain the dramatic intent of the groundbreaking rock musical, and consists of some changes to language and the removal of one song ("Contact") to make it possible for high schools to perform this piece