Are there any other recordings of RENT besides the OBC? I would love to get a recording from early workshops. Does anyone know if there's a recording of songs (or even a list of cut songs) that never made it to Broadway?
Sorry I can't be of more assistance, but apparently theres a link for a RENT directory, where you can find songs sang by Norbert Leo Butz and others from different casts..
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
I really enjoy my recording of NYTW just for the fun of seeing how my favorite show progressed. It's very rough around the edges, but it's obvious how talented Jonathan was. There are a lot of the same songs/melodies in different orders, songs that kept the same music but with different words (like Right Brain) and other songs that were cut totally. I love hearing Anthony and Daphne in such raw form, and I think Tony Holdens raspy voice is really sexy and good for Roger But thats just me. I like the different lyrcis Mimi sings in Another Day:
Your pain I see Your heart's been burned You're just like me before I learned, There is no future, there is no past...etc.
For the record "Real Estate" the the cheesiest, funniest song EVER!!! haha I love it
All the same, I'd be interested in hearing all these clips from the cut NYTW songs. If anyone has them and can send them to me I'd greatly appreciate it.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
haha wow just the titles make me laugh. Right Brain, Female to Female (which I can only assume is between Joanne and Maureen.) I've gotta find these clips. I know this one Mark Cohen site (Tango to Hell or something) that has a bunch of NYTW Mark clips with Anthony Rapp but, of course, it wont let me listen to them. grrrr.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
same! i have always heard of these so called "dreadful" songs and now i am very curious to hear them.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!