Celebrate Pride Month at the Strand! Begin the evening with the whimsical silent short A Trip to the Moon, accompanied live by New York–based pianist LuLu Chen. Then experience the groundbreaking musical phenomenon Rent on the big screen. Cap off the night with a festive afterparty at Charlene’s Theater Bar.'

🚪Doors: 6:30 PM

🎞️Films Begin: 7:00 PM

🍷After-Party at Charlene's Theatre Bar!

SILENT SHORT FILM WITH PIANIST

Lulu Chen is a New York–based Taiwanese independent producer, film composer, pianist, and oboist. She holds a B.A. in Film Scoring from Berklee

College of Music and creates imaginative soundscapes that blend orchestral, acoustic, electronic, and synthesized elements.

As a keyboardist, Lulu has toured China with Cats: The Musical and performed in Off-Broadway productions including Shrek, High School Musical, and Bubble Boy, and served as Music Director for Matilda with The Gingerbread Players. Her performance venues include Carnegie Hall, the Steinway x JFK concert series, Make Music New York, and NYC Piano Week 2024. She has also collaborated with Hong Kong pop artists Adia Chen and Chris Huang.

Her score for One Last Monster won the top prize at the 2020 Lonely Wolf: London International Film Festival. Recently, she has produced hip-hop piano projects with emerging rappers and composed the score for the feature film Welcome, directed by Drica Armstrong. In 2026, the musical Kidults, for which she composed the music, premiered in London and New York.

"A Trip to the Moon" is a 1902 French science-fiction adventure trick film written, directed and produced by Georges Méliès. Inspired by the Jules Verne novel From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and its sequel Around the Moon (1870), the film follows a group of astronomers who travel to the Moon in a cannon-propelled capsule, explore the Moon's surface, escape from an underground group of Selenites (lunar inhabitants), and return to Earth with a captive Selenite.

FEATURE FILM

Rent is a 2005 American musical drama film directed by Chris Columbus. It is an adaptation of Jonathan Larson's 1996 Broadway musical of the same name, in turn based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, which is itself based on the 1851 novel Scenes of Bohemian Life by Henri Murger.

The film, which features six of the eight original Broadway cast members reprising their lead roles,[a][b] depicts the lives of several bohemians and their struggles with sexuality, drugs, paying their rent, and life under the shadow of AIDS in the gritty East Village of New York City from 1989 to 1990.

Rent was produced by Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, 1492 Pictures and Tribeca Productions and released by Sony Pictures Releasing on November 23, 2005. The film received mixed reviews from critics. It failed to cover its production costs at the box office.

🍷After-Party at Charlene's Theatre Bar!