Latebreaking RENT FILM CASTING NEWS — Page 6

Yankee...so WHAT? you call that selling out? When was the last you've even heard of Heredia or Walker? Do you even know if they're still working as actors...for all you know, they could've made a career change or changed their minds. I'm sure at this point we all realize that the entire OBC will never be reunited for an actual run in the show or the movie itself. So, Menzel and Pascal have to stay away from ever doing rent again because other ex-castmembers will not do it?

As far as I'm concerned, they should get the best for each part...and though I think they shouldn't really have a hard time finding a better Roger than Pascal, he was better than any other Roger I've seen. As for Menzel, no question she should have that role. So I'm not complaining, nor am I calling what they're doing "selling out."

I'd like to clear soemthing up...

Idina and Adam aren't the only ones who said they wouldn't do Rent without the other originals. However, they ARE the few who's careers SKYROCKETED after Rent (Aida, Wicked, Cabaret, Wild Party) and movies. If you look on IMDb you'll see that under Jack Black's name is, well, Adam Pascal!

No doubt, Idina has been the best Maureen. Looking back, it's sad she didn't win the Tony for it. Although, who know how much more bashing there would be now!

Is it me or is Anthony Rapp a little too nasal for your ears? I prefer Matt Caplan - but w/e.

P.S. Does anyone know if Idina and Adam were in Rent together? Did Sherie and Idina just swtich roles?

(P.S. To make sure that this doesn;t turn into an Idina is God post - No one, and I mean no one, is a better Amneris than Sherie Renee Scott ~ I admit that!)

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"No doubt, Idina has been the best Maureen. Looking back, it's sad she didn't win the Tony for it."

I could not agree more.

This post brought to you by a perfectly sane, mature Idina fan.

I saw Sherie with Norbert as Roger.

I have to say I hated Matt Caplan as Mark. He was snide, smug and completely unsympathetic. The opposite of Anthony's Mark.

Isn't it nice to debate something other than Wicked or Brooklyn?

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Anthony and Matt Caplan were the two best I have seen - and I have seen 7. They were two of the most honest performers I have seen in that show - period. Anthony's voice is nasal, but almost every Mark after him has imitated the nasalness. Strange, huh?

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Updated On: 10/26/04 at 04:30 PM

Matt,

Caplan may have been all of those things to you, but didn't you feel like his portrayal was real, unlike the others who "perform" the role.

and yes it is lovely that this thread can be virtually Wicked and Brooklyn-free.

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Updated On: 10/26/04 at 04:33 PM

Weird? No ~ lol

I think the role requires it in some unwritten way!

I think he gets TOO nasal sometimes - though I never saw HIM live.

But I'm still wanting Fredi Walker in the movie!

Take Me or Leave Me by Idina and Fredi is as priceless as Dick and Harvey in You're Timeless to Me

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his "vision of the character"?

what do you mean by that?

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that's a shame emcee. i'm certainly not a Matt Caplan know-it-all, and i did see him over a year ago, but he was wonderful then. it's sad to think that could have happened.
it is possible i saw him as roger? god, my brain is playing games on me...-looking for my playbill-

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Updated On: 10/26/04 at 04:39 PM

leomaxfrank - I didn't find Caplan's portrayal "real" at all. He barely registered emotional responses to anything going on and his attitude simply did not fit with the dialogue. All of his spoken lines were mumbled at lightning speed and could barely be understood. Being unlikeable does not make a character more or less realistic. Anthony Rapp and Gilles Chiasson both played Mark as a somewhat charming, yet slightly nerdy protagonist trying to find his way around the obstacles of being an artist in a very trying and unforgiving place and time. As the central character, to isolate the audience in such a way sets the tone for the entire show, which was negative when Caplan was on stage.

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OOPS

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Updated On: 10/26/04 at 04:46 PM

well that's probably because i'm apparently drunk -
i never saw Matt as Mark. i saw Trey Ellett as Mark in the same performance that i saw Matt Caplan as Roger...wow, scary that i forgot that. sorry for the mistake people - but at least i can admit when i f*ck up, unlike our prez. my bad.

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