RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
WilliamT
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#0RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:27pm
Can someone point me in the direction of a cast list of the original original workshop/reading of RENT? And does anyone know what those people who didn't graduate to the OBC are up to now?
Thanks!
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#1re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:29pmThey are all in Anthony Rapp's book, which I don't have on me right now.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#2re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:30pm
Anthony Rapp was Mark
Mark Setlock (I think!) was Angel
Sarah Knowlton was Maureen
Daphne Rubin-Vega was Mimi
Don't remember the rest.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#3re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:34pm
Mark: Anthony Rapp
Roger: Tony Hoylen
Mimi: Daphne Rubin-Vega
Collins: Pat Briggs
Angel: Mark Setlock
Maureen: Sarah Knowlton
Joanne: Shelley Dickinson
Benny: Michael Potts
Blockbuster Rep: Erin Hill
Ensemble: Deidre Boddie-Henderson, Gilles Chiasson, Sheila Kay Davis, John Lathan, Jesse Sinclair Lenat
#4re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:34pm
Was that off the top of your head, Stephen? 
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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#6re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:36pmNice!
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#7re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:37pm
I figured it probably was. You little RENThead, you! 
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#8re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:39pmAh, I've haven't been a RentHead for quite sometime. I just have an elephant's memory (and if I don't stop eating...ass.)
#9re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:40pm
Once a RENThead, always a RENThead.
I'm still a Mizzie...just not as hardcore as I once was. Thankfully.
(Good to see Snarky McManBitch has made a triumphant return. He has been missed)
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
WilliamT
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#10re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:40pm
All Hail the King of Rentheads....
Now for the $14 million dollar question, what are these people up to now? None of their names sound familiar.
Crap, imagine coming THAT close to that much success. Wow!
#11re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:43pm
Michael Potts is in Grey Gardens right now.
Daphne Rubin-Vega is in Les Miz.
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#12re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 4:43pm
True, Katie.
I suppose I'll always be a RentHeadMizzie at heart.
As for what they are doing now...I haven't the slightest idea except for the obvious ones. I recommend doing a google search.
#13re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 5:08pm
Mark Setlock and Shelley Dickinson appeared in Rent as understudies and swings. Setlock went on to a Drama Desk nominated turn in Fully Committed in 2000.
Sarah Knowlton was in short runs of Skylight later in 1996 and then the bomb revival of On the Town in 1998.
Michael Potts did Lennon last year, and is currently in Grey Gardens.
Erin Hill was in Titanic, then Cabaret, then Urinetown as a swing.
Gilles Chiasson had a decent role in the OBC of The Scarlet Pimpernel, then appeared in The Civil War and as an ensemble member in Bax Luhrmann's La Boheme.
John Lathan also showed up in The Scarlet Pimpernel later in its run, but not until after a short run in The Capement.
These results are all courtesy of ibdb.com. I suggest Google if you're interested in learning about the others. Alas, I, as a non-Renthead, am not.
#14re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 5:09pm
Mark: Anthony Rapp
Roger: Tony Hoylen
Mimi: Daphne Rubin-Vega
Collins: Pat Briggs
Angel: Mark Setlock
Maureen: Sarah Knowlton
Joanne: Shelley Dickinson
Benny: Michael Potts
Blockbuster Rep: Erin Hill
Ensemble: Deidre Boddie-Henderson, Gilles Chiasson, Sheila Kay Davis, John Lathan, Jesse Sinclair Lenat
That's not the original original. That's just the group that got to record the demo.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#15re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 5:19pm
They didn't record the original original demo. Jonathan Larson, Tony Hoylen and Sarah Knowlton did .
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#16re: RENT Original Reading/Workshop Cast list?
Posted: 10/27/06 at 5:36pmI stand (well, sit actually) corrected.
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