Is Spring Awakening the new — Page 2

I think the elements of RENT are far greater than SA, and I don't think anything could top RENT, but I found SA more enjoyable, and I think a lot of it has to do with my age and how I relate more to the story in SA than RENT.
I think it's deemed as the next RENT because of the content and issues that are usually not talked about, RENT shocked audiences with its content ten years ago, and now there's a musical that is again pushing the limits and being even more open than RENT.

Spring Awakening certainly isn't good, but it's a lot better than Rent, that's all I can say. They are quite different, aside from the rock score.

They're also about young people and deal head-on with issues that involve young people.

I wish Spring Awakening would catch on instead of RENT and High School Musical. I love RENT, but it's gotten far too popular for its own good, and as for HSM... I feel Spring Awakening deals with the problems in education twice as well as HSM.

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I dunno--I do see the appeal of comparing shows this way--I love doing that but you have to do it with a grain of salt. In terms of style they're very different too (one is basically sung through the other has the songs almsot take place outside of the action--in which case it has arguably more similarities to Company than Rent *grin*).

People did call Rent "this generation's Hair" and I think are sayign the same about SA and I gues but that they mean a non typical Broadway sound, a bit of a "**** you" atitude (well one that's perceived that way by some anyway) etc...

(I also see a similarity in that many seem to view both as Rock musicals when music wise I see it more as pop :P ) I do love both although I enjoy SA's score more.

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Spring Awakening is the new pain in my ass, for real.

I just feel like I like La Boheme about 1678900 times better than RENT (don't anyone say 525,600 times better..) and I like the original Spring Awakening better. The story of RENT hits home more, you know what I mean? I think Spring Awakening sets kind of a new standard, but RENT is known as a show that revolutionized an entire era of musical theatre. That's hard to live up to.

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But the thing is there are other shows that are honest and compelling. What about Spring Awakening and RENT set them aside? I understand RENT, what with the as-of-then unheard of storylines regarding AIDS and portraying the gay couples that RENT did, but Spring Awakening?

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"But the thing is there are other shows that are honest and compelling. What about Spring Awakening and RENT set them aside? I understand RENT, what with the as-of-then unheard of storylines regarding AIDS and portraying the gay couples that RENT did, but Spring Awakening?
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Some Falsetto fans mioght have a boen to kick with you.

I think though the missing ingredient that conencts Rent and SA is their huge appeal to younger theatregoers--for various reasons. That's maybe something some other "honest" shows don't have