RENT at the Hollywood Bowl - Video preview w/ set and costumes

[MyLife]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:36am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtMqVSu_vPw&feature=player_embedded#!

ENJOY! Can't wait to see this!

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 1:41am

Damn. NPH has really outdone himself.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 2:06am

Anybody else find it really disturbing that those children are portraying characters with AIDS?

[BwayTday]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 2:15am

Yes.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 2:33am

Holy sh*t f*ck that was disturbing.

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 2:34am

Ok. You want to do this show in high schools? Fine, I guess.
Middle schools? Ehhhh. Maybe?
BUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN WHO APPEAR TO BE 6-10 years old? Just no. Extremely disturbing and sickening.
Updated On: 8/6/10 at 02:34 AM

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 2:37am

Both terrifying and adorable. Well played.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 3:25am

That video is terrible. Who lets eight year olds do Rent?

[amoni]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 7:46am

The Christmas pageant this year will be "Oh Calcutta!".

[ecolt87]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 9:48am

The actress playing Joanne is relying way to much on her prop (the phone).

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 9:48am

If you thought this was disturbing you shoudl have seen their version of Contact.

I want to be at the musical rehearsals for this show.

"Okay, I want to all to scream this music as loud as you can! Ready, go!"

And Tom Collins is.... a girl?

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 9:56am

No.

[ecolt87]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:00am

Yes, Tom is a girl. It was the most painful "I'll Cover You Reprise" EVER.

Also, the choreography is great.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:03am

Unless he's a girl named Jonah, he's not a girl

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:04am

Oh good God. This is seriously the most disturbing thing I have ever seen. Do these kids even know what AIDS is?

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:05am

Weird. I guess they had a male and a female Collins?

Yes, it's legal.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:07am

They probably think it is something you can get from hugging and kissing a lot.

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:08am

Mr. Patrick Harris has 100% gained my approval

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:17am

Extraordinary. By casting younger, they have un-earthed the true core of RENT. This is definite atonement for the film version.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:21am

While this is frightening - although, it's really not that much more frightening than the community theatre production I saw in Chicago last winter - why is everyone horrified that children might know what AIDS is? I knew what AIDS was when I was a child. I don't really see that as the hot issue here.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:26am

Well obviously this brilliant director (I'm thinking probably David Leveaux was behind this one) took inspiration in Joanne's line to Maureen: "You're One Lucky Baby" - and took that to heart in his casting.

I don't think the issue of AIDS is the issue; I think its the connotation that these children would have contracted it through drug use or sex which gives one the creeperrs -- but what is theatre for if not to disturb profoundly.


Updated On: 8/6/10 at 10:26 AM

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:28am

HIV is replaced with head lice in the grammar school version.

(beeeping)
"RID break!"
"You?"
"Me. You?"
"Me. Me."

[ROGER]
What'd you forget?

[MIMI]
Got a COMB?

[ROGER]
I know you? -- You're --
You're scratching....

[MIMI]
It's nothing
It's bugs, crabs or maybe mosqeet,
And I'm just a little
Weak on my feet
Would comb my nits out?
What are you staring at?

[ROGER]
Nothing, just the lice in the moonlight.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:29am

When I was younger, I knew the word AIDS and that it was bad but none of the details.

I also would be very afraid of their Out Tonight.

Is it possible this is a hoax?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:31am

It's possible they just showcased a few of the better songs.

[byebyebaby12]

Posted: 8/6/10 at 10:34am

I don't even want to hear the edited version of La Vie Boheme.