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Yes, I am serious WickedRentEder. To me, he put on a sad face and overdramatically sang it. It's the only time I HAVEN'T cried while watching that number.

I know quite a few perfectly average actors who could have done equally as well if not better. So what's so extraordinary about that?

The most emotional song in the movie? Perhaps, but not the most emotionally performed. At least not by Jesse. Why did it seem as though Maureen, Roger, Mimi, and Joanne were more riveted by Angel's death than Collins?

Yes, I was being facetious about Pam, but she did make me tear up! Watch her when the DVD comes out! But yes, Rosario was AMAZING.

As for Jesse, just because he didn't shed any tears in the reprise of "I'll Cover You" does not mean there was no emotion. Jesse was brilliant in translating his character from stage to screen.

Um. Okay. I think that your opinion is strange, but you're entitled to it.

How is my feeling that Jesse was effective and engaging "uneducated?"

Well, I'm going to respectfully disagree with you BwayGirl. I think Jesse did an amazing job and I think he conveyed the sadness you're supposed to after losing one's partner....him & Tracie Thoms got me!!!!

PS..

<-----I'm a guy lol

Well, that means there is hope for you! (note the wink)

Personally, I thought Adam fared a lot better than most in the show, though I really think Idina came off the best of all. Taye was wasted. I agree with 107 about Jesse. Rosario did a decent job, though there's something about her Mimi that I didn't buy. I can't really put my finger on what it was. I thought Rapp was okay, but his character is so underdeveloped that he's less of a character and more of a device, which is a problem in a piece that's supposed to have such an emotional impact.

Who I really couldn't stand was Tracie Thoms. Ironically, I found her to be the stagiest of the performers. Perhaps I was never able to get over her the fact that she was all fidgety and her eyes were darting all over the place at the start of "SOL" while everyone is seemed to be in a different place.

As an ensemble, they were wildly uneven, and though people don't really agree who fared better than others, it's clear that that unevenness was apparent to most of the people on this thread.

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Actually the wink was what made me think you were being rude.

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He gets more face time on stage, as well as some sort of redemption.

I don't think any of the chracters are all that fleshed out on stage or on screen. They're pretty much archetypes, some with more depth than others.

I'd argue that Mimi and Roger have the most depth, while Mark and Angel have the least.

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Yeah, I was upset they cut the second part of "Goodbye Love" because I don't like Benny not getting any sort of redemption.

I think I just realized something....

The reason that Mark's character might seem so underdeveloped *in the play* is that the play is essentially his documentary. And, since he "hides in his work", and is sort of always on the outside, I think that's why he may seem 2-dimensional to some extent. It's up to us to form our own opinions about him. Hmmm. This really isn't making as much sense as it did in my head, so I'm going to ask anyone that understood what I was trying to get at it to try and make it more lucid.

The reason his character was under-developed in the movie was because of the cuts made in the second part of 'Goodbye Love' and 'Halloween.' Also, the beginning of the play, the part that should have come in-between Seasons of Love and Rent in the movie.

That is all- please return to your regularly schedualed programming

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Updated On: 1/16/06 at 04:35 PM

Rapp saved that movie

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