The Rent Welcome Wagon- Page 4

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:35pm

ooohhhh the election!!!

not enough bytes in the world to start me on that

however, i'm glad you're thinking about it....
maybe i'll prepare an off-line answer to that and post it later.

my favorite color?

don't know anymore - I wear much brighter colors than I used to... really into RED- (yeah!)
used to only wear black - I was pre-"goth" I guess

staying around the boards?

now that I've found them - I'll drop in when time allows - it really is fun.

solo album?
OH NO!!! Never wanted to be a recording artist. You NEVER get paid!!

and Charlie - don't mind about the screenplay thing - you ask really intelligent questions and I like that.

fwb

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:39pm

What is your screenplay about? Can you tell us about the story, characters, where your idea came from?

About the election- feel free to rant. We all do.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:42pm

contact

cannot be taken literally...

don't forget - the story of RENT is a film that we are seeing after the fact.
Mark already shot it and cut it and what we are seeing is the finished product

contact is a "montage" you know what I mean?
fwb

[BEKA531]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:43pm

yeah, i understand what you're saying now, but when i first heard the CR and saw the show i thought of it as literal.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:43pm

*squeaks again*

I love getting to "hear" this stuff from your perspective. Thanks!

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:44pm

Alright. Thank you. So is the first act supposed to be all Mark's film too? He wasn't present for every event that night.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:45pm

so...

who out there is in this crazy biz...

tell me about your aspirations!!!


"no story too boring"
fwb

[BEKA531]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:46pm

i watch shows. that's it. i run away in fear at the thought of performing in front of an audience.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:46pm

I'm currently studying at NYU Tisch and working on a production of Pippin, but I want to be doing Broadway as soon as possible, even though, after reading "Making It On Broadway" and getting thoroughly depressed, I know the realities of the business. There's just nothing else I would want to do.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:47pm

haha, not I. Just a happy little observer. My singing makes anyone remotely present desperately need earplugs. I do think I want to get invovled somehow, though; maybe through journalism.

[angelrock25222]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:47pm

fredi walker you are so cool! i just wanted ot say that.. anyways im not really "in the business" but i am the directors assistant/stage manager/technical assistant for my high school's productions :)

again thanks for answering all of the questions !! Updated On: 11/21/04 at 10:47 PM

[Alix]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:47pm

Wow...now hearing you say RENT is Mark's film it seems so obvious, but somehow I had never thought of that. Thank you so much for sharing all this interesting stuff with us!

Alix

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:48pm

I hope to do something with technical theatre someday.

[TGIF]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:48pm

Welcome Fredi! Enjoy your time here - we all do.

And since Emcee is being a baby I must take matters into my own hands...

Wilkommen!
Bienvenue!
Welcome!!

Edit: spelling - those darn foreign languages!

Updated On: 11/21/04 at 10:48 PM

[BWIDB Charlie]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:49pm

If the stage version of Rent is mark's film, then doesn't "You Okay Honey" fit outside of that idiom, along with One Song Glory, Light My Candle and We're Okay? If I'm not mistaken, Mark is blocked into almost every other scene, but he, by nature of the scene, is outside for those pieces. Obviously it still works in the show, I just always wonder about those scenes. I guess one could chalk it up to the little flaws that make the show.

And about the election, trust me, I could go on and on as well! Sometime I would love to hear your opinions, though. Thanks for the compliment.

Charlie
[e-mail] Updated On: 11/21/04 at 10:49 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:50pm

awww, TGIF! *feels useless*

[kates]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:51pm

Hello and welcome!

I'm still catching up so I don't repeat any questions, but wanted to say hi!

[adamized88]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:52pm

not really in the biz either - been in hs shows - chorus and pick-a-little lady - did props, costumes, and stage managing for our fall drama, arts editor of my school paper, theater goer, love to sing and dance, just getting into acting, do a bit of songwriting

yeah - so really i like to try my hand at every aspect

[BWIDB Charlie]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:53pm

Well, I'm trying to get into (professional) directing, with an emphasis on Musical Theatre. Hopefully all the networking I've been trying to make will be useful someday, but until then, I am working on establishing a music business (its complicated... but to simplify - a notation/copyist & recording studio) in Manhattan. Exciting, huh?!

So much for me, next person up to speak?

Charlie
[e-mail]

Oh, Fredi - have you seen Wicked? Updated On: 11/21/04 at 10:53 PM

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:57pm

dudes - lighten up!

It's called "poetic license" - ya dig?

if the audience isn't willing to suspend it's sense of reality just a little bit - no play works - or film either...

I mean c'mon - RENT is an opera? Who do you know who sings their conversations?

----

as for my scripts -

most of my inspiration comes from my families' stories - so far I have 3 period pieces (an action/adventure, a western and a 40's musical) and one contemporary (a thriller)..

I won't reveal plots...ya'll know how it is...

to Shubert - I too am an NYU alum... and I too couldn't wait to get on B'way - many of my friends made "the line" early on in their careers - but, I'm glad it went the way it did for me.

it's good that you can't do anything else - that's the only way you'll make it... if you can do something else and be happy - eventually you will because this life is extremely difficult and you must be all in!

To answer an earlier question - JOANNE will always be my favorite role - no matter what else I ever do.

fwb

ps - hoooray for those of you who just love theatre and come to see those of us who just love to do theatre.

[TGIF]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:57pm

Aww Emcee you are NOT useless, just shy at the moment. And see I'm not good at your job, i had to edit for spelling (there are probably still more there.)

[insomniak]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:59pm

We know about poetic license, Fredi, we just weren't sure.

Are your scripts going to be produced?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 10:59pm

hahaha, TGIF? My "job" is spelling? And yup.... just shy.

[BEKA531]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 11:00pm

"poetic license"
true that. i have to say that to myself everytime i watch a movie/see a show... i take EVERYTHING too literally. one of my many faults.


"JOANNE will always be my favorite role - no matter what else I ever do."
yay.


"hoooray for those of you who just love theatre and come to see those of us who just love to do theatre."

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 11/21/04 at 11:01pm

how cool

sound like there are some budding producers out there!!!!

Charlie - great idea - after all it's show BIZ not show ART and if you can get fiscal freedom early on - you'll be in a much better position to pick and chose your projects and actually make "art".

all experience - whether on or back stage - is useful.

Theatre (and film) are collaborative arts and every job is needed to make it work... never belittle your contribution to the process


fwb