EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Dinner and a\u00a0show is waiting for you at the UTEP Dinner Theatre as it prepares for its upcoming production of\u00a0\u201cRent,\u201d\u00a0bringing a story of love, dreams and resilience to the stage.<\/p>\n
Set in New York City during the HIV\/AIDS crisis, the musical follows a group of struggling artists who refuse to let life define their limits. <\/p>\n
Despite the challenges they face, they keep pursuing the future they want.<\/p>\n
“It’s tiring….I work during the day…I go to work, and then i come home for two hours and I come here…I don’t really have a lot of me time,” Daniel Rivera told ABC-7’s Olivia Vara during the interview. <\/p>\n
He plays the character of Tom Collins in UTEP Dinner Theatre’s Production of ‘Rent.’ Daniel says his passion for acting and musicals was inspired by Michael Jackson.<\/p>\n
“It was how much people loved him and the amount like he, like, could touch a person just through his music,” said Daniel. <\/p>\n
Rent follows a struggling group of young artists fighting to survive and create amid the HIV and AIDS crisis. There will be multiple showings of the musical\u00a0beginning march 27th with tickets starting around $30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniel is proud of their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s like, wow, this is ours now, you know what i mean? And it’s really rewarding to see that. Like, I love spending the time and actually seeing the outcome….It’s beautiful.”<\/p>\n
While he says it’s tiring… it’s also worth it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“People are great. And you build connections and that’s honestly what you need.\u00a0That and a little bit of sleep at night,” Daniel told ABC-7’s Olivia Vara during the interview. <\/p>\n
UTEP Dinner Theatre also adds a unique twist on select nights, pairing the show with a\u00a0dinner-theatre format\u00a0that keeps the audience fully immersed from start to finish.<\/p>\n
Whether you\u2019re a longtime fan or seeing\u00a0\u201cRent\u201d\u00a0for the first time, the show is a reminder of how much work and care goes on behind the scenes to bringing this story to life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Dinner and a\u00a0show is waiting for you at the UTEP Dinner Theatre as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-225777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}