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#26re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:10pm
Instead of AIDS do they have cooties?
#28re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 2:55pmhaha sgtdonut, and our Benny is white as well. Honestly it doesnt make a huge difference. I do however like that we have a black collins.
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Jonny boy
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/30/07
#30re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:21pmWait wait wait. AIDS in school?! Does the PTA know about this!?
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#31re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 3:26pmI'm reading the revisions. Is it me, or did they cut all references to Mimi doing drugs? How exactly does that work?
#32re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 5:36pm
Has anyone seen both versions? I'm curious to see how different the school version is as a finished product.
I've never seen the school version, but I'm thinking it might be like Sex and the City on TBS...it's kind of the same show, but it's so much better on HBO.
#33re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 5:55pmAnd is Angel being played by a GIRL!?!
#34re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 6:06pm
i can see how mature people are on this board.
our Benny is white as well.
anyways, you know Mimi has drug addiction. the only verse they cut from light my candle is the "You look like you're 16.." and that's really all. She comes back looking for her stash and she grabs it at the end. Also in Christmas Bells she has her deal with the drug dealer, she also does it in Happy New Year B.
In Out Tonight, it goes from the end of the first chorus to "In the evening i've got to roam.."
Another Day has 2 verses cut.
In Christmas Bells they cut the fun part of everybody singing different things at once. La Vie Boheme they cut "Bisexuals trisexuals.." all of that verse.
Without You has some verses missing and obviously Contact is cut.
Also, not a cut, but One Song Glory and Will I are written in a lower key which is better.
That's really it. The show still flows the same and it's the same meaning as the original show.
Updated On: 6/24/08 at 06:06 PM
#35re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 6:10pmAngel is a boy in our production. I don't see the big fuss about having a white Collins or Benny. Considering I think it'd be nice to see someone else be portrayed as the asshole rather than a black man, and it doesn't say they're supposed to be black anywhere. Our teacher got a callback for the Angel tour as Collins and he's white.
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#36re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 6:54pmGlory: Not according to that thread that discusses the cuts. According to that, all of the drug references in "Christmas Bells" are gone, as well as the whole looking for the stash part of "Light My Candle."
#37re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 6:56pmoh the director of that production might of cut it, i'm in it and i've been in rehearsals for the past 3 weeks and it's in the script.
#38re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 6:57pmummm, is this LEGAL?!?!
#39re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 7:47pmWhat the hell? The meaning of this show has nothing to do with being black or with being addicted to drugs. The drug references are there, they just never flat out say she's an addict, it's heavily referenced.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#41re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 7:53pm
The meaning of the show has nothing to do with being addicted to drugs???
Did you see the same RENT I did????
#42re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 7:55pmIt doesn't. The storyline does but the meaning, being "No Day But Today" has nothing to do with being a drug addict, if it is then it sends out a terrible message.
#43re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 7:57pmTheatreFreak - I saw the RENT with Gaiken as Mimi and Patti as Roger. They got together at the end and sang a camfire song. That's the one I SAW.
#45re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 8:00pmWell then, No, I didn't see the same production you did.
My.Small.Apricot
Understudy Joined: 6/14/08
#46re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 9:10pmi sure hope "mucho masturbation" is cut from La Vie Boheme
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#47re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 9:14pm
school edition.
how can you cut out the "masturbation" line when these are all hormonal teenagers performing?
#48re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 9:57pm
Is it time to post this again? I guess so.
http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=68390
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#49re: RENT School Edition
Posted: 6/24/08 at 10:53pm
andrewcomp: RENT sort of does have a terrible message, when you think about it.
I'm sorry, but I think that Mimi being a drug addict and Roger being a recovered addict are very important to the show.
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