"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
hmmm maybe they won't revive it they will just make a sequel called Mortgage.
"We're Not gonna p-a-a-y last years MORTGAGE"
Herbie: "Honey, Don't you know there's a depression?"
Rose: "Of Course I know, I Watch Fox News"
-(modified)Gypsy
Broadway Schedule
December 5th- Hamilton, On Your Feet
December 19th- Noises Off, Edith Piaf Concert at Town Hall
Well, I'm watching the movie right now on Blu-ray. That's the best I can do in the comfort of my own home... and I'm cryin' just a bit. Okay, maybe MORE than just a bit.
I knew Jon Larson, and I have to say, I'm a bit overwhelmed right now. I'm trying to "laugh it off," but not very successfully. In fact, I suck at it.
It's like I'm saying goodbye to him right now.
Oh, I know, the show will live on in regional productions and coffee table books. That's fine, I guess...
*raises glass*
Here's to YOU, Jon. You did good.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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"Robin De Jesus has issues"~ JANET DACAL
"Yeah, and that's putting it lightly"~ ANDREA BURNS
"If you watched CBS on June 15th , I was nominated for a Tony... And I was in Camp"~ ROBIN DE JESUS
"...but I ^&#$@*% made you believe I was Italian!"~MATTHEW MORRISON
http://legallybrownonbroadway.com/
I just finished listening to the cast recording and I just watched the movie.
"Robin De Jesus has issues"~ JANET DACAL
"Yeah, and that's putting it lightly"~ ANDREA BURNS
"If you watched CBS on June 15th , I was nominated for a Tony... And I was in Camp"~ ROBIN DE JESUS
"...but I ^&#$@*% made you believe I was Italian!"~MATTHEW MORRISON
http://legallybrownonbroadway.com/
Thank you for your wonderful post. I had no such personal connection to Rent, but I love it all the same. It has brought many hours of happiness to my life, and I believe it will always be my favorite musical. I've avoided most of the threads on this board due to the fact that many posts have been unkind, but I'm glad I opened this one.
I believe that a revival might happen sooner than many expect, but even so it won't be the same production that graces the Nederlander tonight.
So, that was the Drowsy Chaperone. Oh, I love it so much. I know it's not a perfect show...but it does what a musical is supposed to do. It takes you to another world, and it gives you a little tune to carry with you in your head for when you're feeling blue. Ya know?
I have been trying just to forget about RENT closing lately, and then a friend calls me today around 6:30 to say that he happened to walk past the Nederlander and he said how he saw some famous people and a huge crowd and he said "Dont you like Rent? I thought you might be interested". And I thought oh man so much for trying to forget about it. I just got him off the phone asap. After he realized that he depressed me, he texted back and made arrangements to see Phantom later this month : ) haha.
So its ok that Rent is closing; its a link to my late adolesence that can finally be closed. Its also fitting that my mom today sent me a link to the website that's selling luxury lakefront homes on the site of former childhood summer camp--the camp that I went to every summer from kindergarten up until freshman year of college---the same year that RENt opened. Wowwwwwwww.
And, there will be the tour--which I'm assuming will use the same lighting/set/orchestrations as the original b-way?
I have no problem with new sets or directions if/when they revive it. But, the one thing that will bother me to no end is if they do what they did in London which was totally re do the music and orchestrations. Because, for me when you get right down to it Rent is about the music and the story that the music tells.
I remember watching that three way call video on Broadway.com with Adam,Anthony and DRV. They were talking about how one person really got into Rent via the music because they never saw the show. And, they were talking about how they thought that was more touching then someone who had seen the show many times because when you got down to it Rent was about the music. That is why I don't want them to change the orchestrations like they did for the London revival.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll