PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: A Peek Backstage at Hollywood Bowl RentNeil Patrick Harris' new staging of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent runs at the historic Hollywood Bowl Aug. 6-8. This week's CELEB PlayBlogger Telly Leung — who plays Angel in the production — offers a look backstage at his fellow Rent-ers.
By
Matthew Blank
August 06, 2010
The starry cast features "High School Musical" actress Vanessa Hudgens as Mimi, Emmy winner and Grammy nominee Wayne Brady as Tom Collins, Next to Normal's Aaron Tveit as Roger, Spring Awakening's Skylar Astin as Mark, The Pussycat Dolls' Nicole Scherzinger as Maureen, Collins Pennie as Benjamin (“Benny”) Coffin III, Tracy Thoms as Joanne, Pacific Overtures' Telly Leung as Angel with original Broadway Rent actress (and "Seasons of Love" soloist) Gwen Stewart. Here are some shots provided by Leung:
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.