The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part seven — Page 181

Obviously it's all hypothetical, but as much as I love Adam, I do not love him enough to camp out. To wake up very early, yes. To camp out, no.

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Updated On: 3/5/06 at 02:56 PM

Lexi, I can't really imagine doing it myself, but I guess it was kind of a 'go with the flow' type of thing. At that point, there were the 'line regulars' who were all friends and knew the cast and who had been following Rent since the beginning. And to be a part of Daphne's last show, not only because of Daphne, but also because she was the first one to leave, must have been a pretty amazing thing.

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Updated On: 3/5/06 at 02:58 PM

Well, these people had probably spent so much money seeing Rent 1,000 plus OTHER times that they couldn't afford that, Mel.

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I think it wasn't just about the show. Obviously, I can't speak from experience, but they made friends while camped out there, and from what one of the links I posted said, they would go over there just to hang out with the people there, and the theater was like a second home to them.

I'm sure they were devastated when the producers decided to get rid of the line and started the lottery instead.

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:00 PM

It must've have been such an amazing experience.

I guess..I mean I can't know, but I think I would've wanted to make sure that I had tickets. I don't think I'd really care if I sat in the first two rows but I guess I can't really say anything since I wasn't there back then.

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:04 PM

there were the 'line regulars' who were all friends and knew the cast and who had been following Rent since the beginning.

That's kind of what I meant, though -- I can't imagine following a show from the beginning, going to 1,000+ performances, and everything the original Rentheads did. I remember reading a short article in my Playbill the first time I saw Rent that talked a bit about the original Rentheads, and I thought that they must have been out of their minds, but at least the show was probably bound to be good considering the behavior it prompted in so many fans. Even after I've immersed myself in the Rent fandom, so to speak, I still can't see myself doing it. I've seen it on Broadway once and the movie maybe ten times by now and I'm a bit tired of it all. I still love the music, but watching/listening to something over and over tends to lessen the emotional impact for me. I can only imagine seeing the show over a THOUSAND times.

Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:06 PM

Yeah, exactly, Fantab... like, right now I'm so sick of the elitism and whatnot, plus the fact that I think I've only ever met/talked to ONE original Renthead that I actually like, so when I hear about this stuff, all I can think of is how pretentious and psychotic I think a lot of the stuff is/was. But I know that I'd kill for that kind of experience.

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It's also hard because while Rent has been a *huge* part of my life, it wasn't even possible for me to have been an original renthead - I was 9.

That also makes it much harder when those elitist fans come along and say I'm not worthy of being a 'renthead' - which by the way, I completely agree with Katt about. It's not a term that really exists any more in the way it was intended to be used. Now it's just thrown around. But, while I'm not a 'renthead', I still consider myself a huge fan, and I hate when people try to denounce my love *because* I was 9 in 1996.

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Updated On: 3/5/06 at 03:13 PM

Oh yeah, I'll readily admit that PART of my "wow, y'all were such freaks!" is jealousy.

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There was no way that I could have been an original renthead, I was 5. My mom wouldn't let me see the show until last year. I wanted to see it when I was 10 after hearing the title song. She told me it was too adult for me, which it probably was at 10. I am a little jelous of people who have known the show for so long because it's such a wonderful part of my life, and I'm greatful that I got to know it before the movie came out.

I don't like being called one, I guess, because it's become kind of derogatory DUE to the insanity. I have Renthead tendencies, thank you.

But I also don't like being put at fault, or whatever, because I was ten. Like, it's not my FAULT. I know the experience was different, but just because you're ten plus years older than me doesn't mean I can't love it too.

Anthony is the ONLY person I let poke fun at me for it.

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I think I was with Liotte, and she was saying how she saw the OBC like 27 times, or something, and she slept on the street and whtanot. I got embarassed for my age, and Anthony was like "sorrrrryyyy, you HAD to sleep on the street!"

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