‘Rent’ & ‘Marvelous Wonderettes’ Casts Announced

Casts for Centenary Stage Company’s productions of “Rent” and “The Marvelous Wonderettes” are finalized.

Directing “Rent” is CSC’s own Lea Antolini-Lid, Director of Young Audience Series and Producer of the NEXTStage Repertory Summer Series, as well as Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at Centenary University. She received her BMA in classical voice from the University of the Arts, London, and her MFA in acting from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, where she also taught movement for the actor. Antolini-Lid has performed professionally in NYC and other East Coast cities and traveled to China with Nai – Ni Chen Dance to teach at Kunming University and is a founding member and managing director of the XY DANCE PROJECT.

The cast of Rent will include Cody Jackson, James Gerard Russo, Louie Alexander Steele, Stephanie Rosario, Nicole Boscarino, Jonathan Drayton, Na’Jee Tariq, Alneesha Harris, Luis Rodriguez, Danny Sims, Mackenzie Castle, Audrey Jantzen, Mark Squindo, Benedict Dawa-Cross, Lisa Kosak, Emily Kurnides, Jibril Shabazz-Scott, Kylah Wilson, Isaiah Rosario Chagas, Kai Vialva, Kayla Yepez, Kylie Smith, Serena Buchan, Connor McCrea, Olivia Tomlin, and Jordan Sievert.

Directing “The Marvelous Wonderettes” is Jillian Petrie, company choreographer for The Growing Stage, Netcong, where she served as director on the company’s first film production and was director of many main-stage productions. She is director of TGS’s new Theatre Dance program and is a professor of dance and theatre at Centenary.

The cast of “The Marvelous Wonderettes” includes Amanda Ackerman, Christina Polichetti, Serena Buchan, Lauren Fabio, Audrey Jantzen and Claire Finegan.

Performances of “Rent” run July 7 through 17, “The Marvelous Wonderettes” runs July 28 through Aug. 7 in the Sitnik Theatre of the Lackland Performing Arts Center at 715 Grand Avenue, Hackettstown. Tickets range from $25.50 to $29.50 for adults with discounts available for seniors, students and children under 12. For more information, go to centenarystageco.org or call the Centenary Stage Company’s box office at (908) 979-0900.

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