Broadway at the Gardens, Rancho Cucamonga’s Resident Civic Light Opera Company, holds auditions for Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking musical Rent on December 7th and 14th with Veteran Broadway Performers Ron Kellum and Courtney Corey Leading the creative team.

Broadway at the Gardens, The City of Rancho Cucamonga’s Resident Civic Light Opera Company, will hold two days of auditions to cast its March 2010 production of Rent. Auditions will be held on Monday, December 7th in Los Angeles (principals only) and on Monday, December 14th in Rancho Cucamonga (principals and ensemble).

All those interested are required to submit their headshots and resumes electronically via actors access submission service at http://www.actorsaccess.com/.  Actors will receive a confirmation of appointment time if invited to audition.  There will also be an open call audition at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center located at 12505 Cultural Center Drive in Rancho Cucamonga on Monday, December 14th from 2:00 -5:00 pm. There is no advance appointment required for these open call auditions.  All those wishing to audition should come prepared with photo and resume and be prepared to sing 16 bars of a song from the show and 16 bars of a pop rock.

Jonathan Larson’s Ground-breaking Tony and Pulitzer Prize Award winner reinvented musical when it debuted in 1996. An inspiriting story about friends and artists struggling in New York City’s East Village, Rent tackles addiction poverty, AIDS and most of all, Love.  Rent transformed how a generation feels about musicals, changed Broadway forever and inspired a major motion picture.

The Broadway at the Gardens production of Rent will be director by Ron Kellum who was seen on Broadway and in National Broadway Touring productions of Chicago, Dreamgirls, Fosse, Joseph, Aida, Smokey Joe’s Café and Beauty and the Beast in addition to directing musical productions throughout the U.S. and choreographing for film and television including the upcoming feature, “Ironman 2.”  He will be joined by Co-director Courtney Corey who appeared as Maureen in the First Broadway National Tour in Rent and who most recently appeared several times as Elphaba in the Los Angeles and Chicago productions of the smash hit musical Wicked.  Musical Director is David Lamoureux, who has conducted and/or directed many local productions, has recorded and toured extensively as a musician with artists ranging from Gwen Stefani and Augustana to Liz Callaway and Sandy Duncan and was a driving force behind last year’s Inaugural Broadway at the Gardens production of Sweeney Todd.

Ron Kellum will also be teaching a Musical Theatre Workshop in Rancho Cucamonga on Saturday, December 12th from 9 am – 11 am for $35.00 per person with additional ten minute private coaching sessions available for workshop participants at an additional fee of $10.  For details on this workshop, please call the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center at 909-477-2775.

Performances of Rent will be March 5-14, 2010.  Tickets are currently on sale at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center box office located at 12505 Cultural Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga or online at http://www.lewisfamilyplayhouse.com/ for $33.50.