RENT Live on Fox — Page 16

I linked Brandon's version above. It's been out for hours.

I think I might just skip the fiasco that is the broadcast and listen to the studio cast recording. Based on I'll Cover You (reprise), this might be an interesting experience. We don't really have a high quality complete studio recording of the show since the OBC, as far as I know...the OBC sounds a little long in the tooth to me these days in terms of quality.

Just to clarify a few things for those who obviously don't know how these live TV things work: Do you have ANY idea how long they rehearse these things? Yes or no? Do you think they've never run this with cameras prior to the final dress, which they all know is going to be taped and used for any terrible screw-ups? They rehearse the camera blocking for a long time. The whole point of the dress rehearsal is to have a good version as a back-up for anything that needs to be plugged in. Obviously no one had any idea of what would happen here, but this nonsense that the cast was holding back because it was a dress rehearsal is ridiculous. They were playing in front of 1100 people - they were doing what they were directed to do (or what no one told them to do - who knows what this director did or did not do with the actors). Finally, the person who said they were at the taping and kept hyping this in the early part of this thread and then completely disappeared - one wonders how said person came to be there, one wonders at the need of the people in charge to pump up and hype the audience in a completely artificial way that actually hurts their show. No different than what they do with the audiences on Idol or America's Got Talent - it's all about the audience, it's all artificial because they're doing what they were instructed to do times a million percent.

I think Rent is a cursed show.

Someone on Facebook was wondering whether Angel would have been able to afford quite that much plastic surgery.

Roscoe said: "Someone on Facebook was wondering whether Angel would have been able to afford quite that much plastic surgery."

Depends on how many dogs she kills.

Even Angel can't kill that many akitas.

notalwaysontime said: "watching all the fox and audience clips of what was actually performed tonight really made me wish they just aired it as it was performed, because I instantly felt like it was more in line with the spirit of rent than what we saw actually aired. when you take the history of the show into account, it would have actually been poetic to have this live show follow in the original's foot steps of doing a quasi concert performance. all the video clips on twitter feel so raw and pure, and they have so much more heart (like the one i saw of the drug dealer telling roger not to take his clients, and then jordan got up and pushed him away, acting out rogers part and lip syncing to brennin while he sat in the wheelchair and sang it.) there was just something so real and honest about those clips."



(One helluva run-on sentence--without a period, no less!)

bk said: "Just to clarify a few things for those who obviously don't know how these live TV things work: Do you have ANY idea how long they rehearse these things? Yes or no? Do you think they've never run this with cameras prior to the final dress, which they all know is going to be taped and used for any terrible screw-ups? They rehearse the camera blocking for a long time. The whole point of the dress rehearsal is to have a good version as a back-up for anything that needs to be plugged in. Obviously no one had any idea of what would happen here, but this nonsense that the cast was holding back because it was a dress rehearsal is ridiculous. They were playing in front of 1100 people - they were doing what they were directed to do (or what no one told them to do - who knows what this director did or did not do with the actors). Finally, the person who said they were at the taping and kept hyping this in the early part of this thread and then completely disappeared - one wonders how said person came to be there, one wonders at the need of the people in charge to pump up and hype the audience in a completely artificial way that actually hurts their show. No different than what they do with the audiences on Idol or America's Got Talent - it's all about the audience, it's all artificial because they're doing what they were instructed to do times a million percent."



Yes the actors knew it could be used if something went wrong, but still it would be assumed by actors that it would be used as filler. Actors would also likely be aware of which scenes that they would be more likely to need to prerecord. Never before have they actually had to use the 7/8 of the dress rehearsal instead of the live performance. You could clearly see Jordan Fischer was breaking character at points, but not because he was in the moment, but rather due to him being more taken in by the performances then the story. For example in "Today for You" he was just beaming from ear to ear when Angel opened her mouth, and was dancing along as soon as the song started instead of being brought into the song by Angel. Kiersey Clemons also seemed to be half singing, which was very noticeable in Take Me or Leave Me. Lastly for a show whose score is known for its riffs, they were very much absent from the broadcast, and the cast seemed very much to be singing the score as written instead of adding some style. I would expect this in a dress rehearsal, as they are finalizing the sound levels and finalizing arrangements, but when it's the live performance I expect an actor add the flourishes. I noticed this a ton with Brennin Hunt's Roger, which I liked but he just didn't add any flare to the vocals.

Put me in the group that would of liked to of just seen the show performed as a live concert.

MyLife said: "Roscoe said: "Someone on Facebook was wondering whether Angel would have been able to afford quite that much plastic surgery."

Depends on how many dogs she kills."