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[email protected] VOLUME CXVII NUMBER 15 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA TECH.CALTECH.EDU FEBRUARY 24, 2014 Caltech puts on fun, lively performance of RENT The cast of Caltech’s production of RENT delivers a spirited performance during the song La Vie Boheme. -Professor Sergio Pellegrino CASEY HANDMER deluded homicidal florist, Caltech’s the rock opera won three Tony’s with generous institutional describe what Sean Connery once Contributing Writer theater groupies bring you for Best Musical, Best Score, and support, and RENT is no exception! said to Michael Bay, and freshman “RENT”, the acclaimed musical by Best Book, not long after its writer It is difficult to believe that a show undergraduates starring as lead Following the highly successful Jonathan Larson. RENT features Larson tragically died. Set in of this magnitude could ever be characters in their first show. 2013 run of “Little Shop of an array of Caltech undergrads Manhattan’s East Village during produced on a shoestring, let alone RENT played before great Horrors”, starring former Ruddock including actors Daniel Gomez, the year 1990, the story follows in only six weeks. A formidable crowds last Friday, Saturday and Hovse President Jeff Sherman as a Peter Lommen, Rebecca Tang, the lives of an ad hoc family of team, comprised of undergrads, Sunday, where the cast was joined Lucy Chen, Daniel Ilyin, bohemian misfits as they come to grad students, staff, alumni, JPL by Professors Julia Greer and and Harrison Miller, terms with poverty, addiction, and engineers, and members of the Melanie Hunt performing the In this issue musical director Jetson terminal disease.