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Constantine ashamed of Rent?

Constantine ashamed of Rent?

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#0Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:04pm

I read an article in my local paper about Anwar Robinson, he works about 10-15 minutes away from my school (and my personaly favorite to win).

These are some excerpts from the article.

"Jersey 'Idol'"
- Matt Zoller Seitz
The Star Ledger
Monday, February 21, 2005

"It looks like the men outclass the women this year. There are already six men who seem like lokcs to advance, based on talent, favorable editing, or both: Robinson; Constatine Maroulis, who tries a little to hard to convince people he's a hard rocker; Anthony Fedorov, nicknamed "Tracheotomy Boy"...; Scott Saval, who looks like the guy from "Sling Blade" and sings like Aaron Neville; Justin Guarini lookalike Mario Vasquez; and David Brown, another dreadlocked soul singer with a killer voice"


"...leaves out Nikko Smith...Judd Harris...Bo Bice, the other long-haired rocker, who has a better voice and seems more authentic that Maroulis but lacked the same air-time."


"These are all raw amateurs....Maroulis was the lead in the touring company of "Rent" (a fact he'd rather people didn't know sicne it clahses with his rocker pose)...."



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Updated On: 2/25/05 at 02:04 PM

Joshua488
#1re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:17pm

Ugh.

Poser.

I hate him.

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JohnPopa
#2re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:19pm

All of Constantine's 'moves' are just bad impersonations of Eddie Vedder.

Really, he's a total poseur and not much of a singer that I can tell.

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TGIF
#3re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:20pm

What bugs me is that if he tried out next year or the year after and the movie came out and was a success it would be a completely different story. He would be shouting it from the roof tops.


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!

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My Fair Lady
#4re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:21pm

I've loathed him since his audition.

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SallyBrown
#5re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:52pm

oh please, he thinks being in RENT, a ROCK opera interferes with his image? does he realize he's currently in American Idol?


"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

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Justice
#6re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:53pm

First of all, I don't see what the big deal is. He never actually said that he was ashamed of being in Rent.
Besides, would people have differing opinions if someone stated Mario Vasquez's sexuality and it was in parenthesis (A fact he'd rather people didn't know because it clashes with his "star status")
So what? Some people don't need to have it posted on their forheads that they were in a touring company of an overpopulated show that almost everyone and their younger brother has done.
I don't know if you realise it, but the majority of casting of Rent comes from people who are not actors. They want "rocker musician types" for those roles - not theatre people.


"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.
Updated On: 2/25/05 at 02:53 PM

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Type_A_Tiff
#7re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:53pm

And he plays a rocker, no less.

Exactly, SallyBrown.

Poseurs suck.

ETA: "Ashamed of Rent" is a bit misleading. It's the fact that he's trying to sweep something that he did under the rug because it interferes with his "image" that's the problem. Shouldn't the image be to be true to yourself?


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Updated On: 2/25/05 at 02:53 PM

insomniak
#8re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:54pm

Sally, Rent is a musical. On American Idol, being called 'too broadway' is the kiss of death. It's understandable why he wouldn't want that preconception, but I have been wondering if he will mention it sometime.

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SallyBrown
#9re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:56pm

yeah but "technically" its a rock opera

but still, I think that starring in RENT tour is a bit more rockish than American Idol.


"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

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JohnPopa
#10re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:57pm

Really, neither 'Rent' not AI are going to boost one's rock cred.

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Rathnait62
#11re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 2:58pm

Except on this board.


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insomniak
#12re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:02pm

To most people, broadway is broadway is broadway, and all shows are BROADWAY. There is no 'rock musical'. Hence him perhaps not wanting to talk about it.

I don't quite agree with hiding it, but I follow the reasoning.

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SallyBrown
#13re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:04pm

THEN THE BOY SHOULD OPEN HIS MIND A LITTLE


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"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

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Type_A_Tiff
#14re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:06pm

Rent might give some people rocker cred on here, but AI hardly screams Second Coming of the Sex Pistols, no matter how you cut it.


"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

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SallyBrown
#15re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:07pm

exactly Tiff.


"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

insomniak
#16re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:08pm

Sally, read what I wrote. I'm talking about the people who watch, not Constantine. I'm pretty sure he knows what kind of score Rent has, seeing as that he performed it for a year.

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Primajaunerue
#17re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:11pm

Maybe it was the fact that he was fired from Rent that he doesn't want people to know about...


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#18re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:12pm

Might I add in here that a few friends of mine who saw the production of Rent that C was in hated it. Maybe it was a bad company and Constantine had a bad experience. That doesn't mean he hates the show.
I have a friend who had a HORRID experience in a show he was in, and he won't even put it on his resume. Doesn't mean he's ashamed.


"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.

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Rathnait62
#19re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:12pm

I only meant RENT, Tiff.


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Type_A_Tiff
#20re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:12pm

Well, Prima, I wasn't going to bring it up, but since you did. re: Constantine ashamed of Rent? (Granted, even after getting canned, he still saw Rent with the new touring cast last year.)


"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

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SallyBrown
#21re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:23pm

oh oh my bad insomniak


"It's a great feeling of power to be naked in front of people. We're happy to watch actual incredible graphic violence and gore, but as soon as somebody's naked it seems like the public goes a bit bananas about the whole thing."

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JohnPopa
#22re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:34pm

I think if RENT gives people rock cred here it only further proves that RENT hurts one's rock cred to the rest of the world.

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Type_A_Tiff
#23re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 3:38pm

I think that's what insomniak was trying to say.

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"It's not always about you!!!" (But if you think I'm referring to you anyway, then I probably am.)

"Good luck returning my ass!" - Wilhemina Slater

"This is my breakfast, lunch and f***ing dinner right here. I'm not even f***in' joking." - Colin Farrell

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spiderdj82
#24re: Constantine ashamed of Rent?
Posted: 2/25/05 at 4:30pm

Well, he sucked in RENT...so if that was me, I wouldn't want people to know either.


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