High Fidelity Recording/3 Show Review: Evil Dead/Spring Aw/High Fidelity — Page 2

I don't think people took issue with you not liking the show, but your justifications for not liking the show were less than solid. The show may not be your cup of tea, but it's not due to weakness in production but your personal preferences.

Like Rent? Guess what....RENT ripped off many a rock opera before, and JFTR, it's an adaptation of La Boheme...so RENT isn't exactly the original concept here.

And, again, since the original play in which the musical Spring Awakening has spawned from was published 100 years ago, SA actually came FIRST.

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Updated On: 12/18/06 at 04:14 PM

Seriously, let her have her own opinion. So you don't agree with her opinion... why do you have to mock it? Grow up.

Renthead- In no way am I knocking you for liking Rent. I happen to like Rent a lot and it was also one of the shows that helped peak my interest in musical theater. Also, you are perfectly welcome to say you did not like Spring Awakening. Fine, and I realize you are not alone. Where I do find fault is in your comparisons of the show to Rent. Insinuating that this show is ripping off Rent is ridiculous, especially given the silly and completely unfounded points you have made.

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I know it's off topic, but it kind of ticks me off that Jon Larson is given sole writing credit for Rent.

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Though I disagree with the poster's reasons for not liking Spring Awakening (It's so Rent!), I also was immensely disappointed. I did enjoy the score overall (though I think it works better on CD than in the theater), but the book is less than stellar and borders on downright bad. It just doesn't make you care enough about these characters. Most are one-dimensional, and feature hardly any development. As a result these great songs that should be moving (particularly towards the end of Act II) aren't. Also many of the lyrics are trite ("My Junk") or full of dumb faux-incite ("Word of my Body"). Don't get me wrong the show was enjoyable, and the cast fantastic. But I don't think it deserves all the raves that have been showered upon it.

RentHead2 I think you were a little quick to make judgments on SA. You were thinking way to much about Rent. It isn't Rent without AIDS. I don't care if you don't like the shows but, I very much disagree with your reasons for not liking the show. If you say you don't like it, don't say you didn't like it because it wasn't like Rent. You can give better reasons than that.

Updated On: 12/18/06 at 06:36 PM

Oh, please. Is all you can say about the show that it "pushes the envelope"? Stop being so literal about the RENT comparisons. They have nothing in common. What you listed were the most minimal details that don't even have to be mentioned.

You don't like the show. End it there. There's no need to go and bad-mouth the show just because you obviously don't seem to understand that (like a bunch of other people said) it was based on a play that was written 100 YEARS AGO. Hmm...that was an awful long time ago. I believe RENT was on Broadway in 1996...so if anything, RENT has copied the shock value of SPRING.

Honestly.

Whether I compare this one to Rent or not...Just not to my liking at all. It had some really good songs, and I bought the cd but no second helpings here. Like I said before, some of these grow on me like the Drowsy Chaperone...but I don't think this is one of them.

I will add this: I was dying when the main character kept spitting all over the first row. The kids in this row were laughing and were covering themselves with their jackets every time this kid approached. I saw the spit flying like crazy from the side of the stage and I am glad my rush tickets got me to the side. And of course it's the guy from Lancaster, PA doing the spitting - thats how we do!

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Pfft...I wouldn't mind getting one of those guys' spit on me!

Haaaaa. Just kidding.

SPITTING = DICTION!!!!

**headdesk**

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