RENT Live on Fox — Page 18

JoseLee_ said: "Shut the hell up. We literally wasted our entire day. 12pm to 4pm ... 4 hours WAITING to go into the studio in the hot LA sun. THEN standing for the complete 3 hours for basically a sing-along. Why wouldnt we be mad? If it wasnt going to be live or see ANYTHING like as planned we couldve been told at the beginning and just left. We were trapped there. And we just had suggestions like "do everything LIVE but for Rodger's seens THAT can be pre recorded.".. the whole thing was a waste of time. I can care less than he broke his foot. I dont care at all. I dont know him. You dont know him either. Imagine wasting 8 hours of your life and STANDING the whole time. 12pm to 8pm."

Well, some would say you had a unique opportunity. You will have a story to tell for decades. Only you few got to see the actual "live" form of Rent Live. You got to see (most) of the OBC perform. It was not what you expected - but so few things are. Indeed, there were a few million of us who didn't get to see the live show we were expecting. Maybe you should write to Fox and Mr. Platt - they might be more sympathetic than those of us who didn't get to see the show we were expected AND didn't get to see the live "concert" you did.

Holy crap, this is one missed opportunity. Creatives need to perceptively see in advance when something isn’t working and make immediate changes.

Watching this now and that live audience breaks all focus and ruins what is about to be a moment. The moment an actor twitches, they start screaming and it just takes you out of a scene. This could have been executed beautifully with that set and without a live audience. Also, the moments they go hand-held are just sloppy.

Valentina as Angel shouldn’t have happened. It’s obvious he’s not a singer so his vocal weakness sours his performance, especially when he attempts to riff, which he obviously can’t.

Overall, there is no direction happening and the actors are just “performing” scenes and not connecting. Each song is treated independently instead letting them connect to the story. Vanessa’s “Over the Moon” is on now and about to press “delete” and enjoy the rest of my day.

"Can people stop ripping apart and over criticizing a dress rehearsal?"

Even though it was a dress rehearsal, they were performing for a live audience and they knew it was being recorded for possible use. They should have given it their all. Sadly, I think they did, and that's all they had to give. It was a colossal mess on every level from beginning to end.

brian1973 said: "One of the most annoying things about this broadcast was the dreadful audience whooping and screaming at everything

........, E V E R Y T H I N G."





YES indeed....THIS ^ Has to STOP for future LIVE productions. It just ruins the watching experience.

So, why are they told to act this way during the LIVE show? Thoughts?

I found his interview in Variety.

“When we finished ‘What You Own, when we climbed the ladders, Jordan Fisher who played Mark] and I had to run, all the way through that commercial break, downstage, across the scaffolding and down two flights of stairs to do our quick change for the finale,” Brennin said in an interview with Variety. “And we made it down one flight and we came around the next flight, and I was jumping off that last step to make a left, and my right foot just rolled over, and I snapped a bone in the arch of my foot.”

“And I immediately dropped and was in a lot of pain, and I knew it wasn’t good because even with my in-ear monitors I could hear it snap,” he added. “But I was just telling myself, ‘It’s not broken; it’s just a sprain; I’ll be back tomorrow! They can shoot me up with drugs or whatever, I’m doing it!’ Then I get to the ER and they do the CAT-Scan, and they said, ‘Well, it’s broken.’ That’s how it played out.”

Brennin said the doctors told him that if he tried to stand on his foot, he’d end up needing surgery, so his hope to continue with the show was shot down."

Updated On: 1/28/19 at 04:59 PM

If Patti can throw on an Isotoner and still keep on chugging, so can this Roger.



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Years ago, I went to a taping of Designing Women. It took them 6 hours to complete the one episode. By midnight, everybody in the studio audience had left, leaving me there with Gerald Mcraney, Hal Holbrook, and two girls who were friends of one of the crew. When the taping was finally over, the studio pages assumed I was friends with someone and they left me to exit the sound stage on my own. I ended up getting locked in Warner Brothers Studio. After all of that, I would do it again in a heartbeat. The taping may not have gone as planned, but you have an experience that with time, you will eventually appreciate.

Updated On: 1/28/19 at 05:44 PM

Robbie2 said: "brian1973 said: "One of the most annoying things about this broadcast was the dreadful audience whooping and screaming at everything

........, E V E R Y T H I N G."







YES indeed....THIS ^ Has to STOP for future LIVE productions. It just ruins the watching experience.

So, why are they told to act this way during the LIVE show? Thoughts?"

I think there has to be a happy medium somewhere. I enjoy an audience's enthusiasm (especially for a show like RENT, which could definitely turn more into a rock concert than a Broadway show at some points). However, the audience over powered the actors on more than one occasion last night, which was especially frustrating since it WASN'T live. It seems like they could have done something to balance that.

I remember watching Sound of Music live and hating how awkward it was with no audience and just dead silence after the numbers. There has to be somewhere in between- a responsive audience that doesn't scream loudly enough to drown out the performers.

Updated On: 1/28/19 at 05:59 PM

herewegoabc said: "Robbie2 said: "brian1973 said: "One of the most annoying things about this broadcast was the dreadful audience whooping and screaming at everything

........, E V E R Y T H I N G."







YES indeed....THIS ^ Has to STOP for future LIVE productions. It just ruins the watching experience.

So, why are they told to act this way during the LIVE show? Thoughts?"

I think there has to be a happy medium somewhere. I enjoy an audience's enthusiasm (especially for a show like RENT, which could definitely turn more into a rock concert than a Broadway show at some points). However, the audience over powered the actors on more than one occasion last night, which was especially frustrating since it WASN'T live. It seems like they could have done something to balance that.

I remember watching Sound of Music live and hating how awkward it was with no audience and just dead silence after the numbers. There has to be somewhere in between- a responsive audience that doesn't scream loudly enough to drown out the performers."

Agreed. I think an audience is essential to live theatre and these TV broadcasts are no exception. The dead-air after a rousing musical number or the silence that meets a well timed joke kills the energy and momentum of the whole piece (especially noticeable during NBC’s The Wiz). However, the audience shouldn’t be instructed to act like it’s the season finale of The Voice and scream any time someone holds a note for longer than half a beat. Like a multi-cam sitcom audience, the live audience should be there to guide the at-home audience through the appropriate cues and to feed the energy of the actors.