RENT in Cincinnati

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 7:04pm

Tour comes through this weekend....anyone from the Cincy area planning on seeing it? I'll be rushing for the Friday night and Saturday matinee shows...should I be on the lookout for any board members? lol

[joanna2]

Posted: 12/14/06 at 8:47pm

I'll be there for Sunday's matinee!

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 1:29am

bumpy-idy bump bump bump!

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 1:58am

I was gonna go, but money is TIGHT with the holidays around. Gonna try and make it to Akron in April!

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 2:02pm

Just to let you know you're going to be seeing all the understudies in the leads for this stop of the tour. The only headlining members that are staying on this stop are Harley (mark), Krystal (mimi), and Melvin (angel). Everyone else is going to be at a wedding.

Have fun tho, the understudies are great. You'll be seeing Aron as Roger, and he is awesome!

[joanna2]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 3:38pm

Yeah, dangit, I'm sad I won't be seeing Declan. It might be interesting to see another Collins and Joanne, though, because I've seen Warren and Chante a billion times!

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 3:40pm

I really wanna see it, but this weekend is way too crazy. I'm in the Nutcracker...again. uggh.

[joanna2]

Posted: 12/15/06 at 4:26pm

Oh, and one more thing...whose wedding is EVERYONE going to? WTF?

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:23am

They are going to Joe's sisters wedding.

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:23am

*double post*

Updated On: 12/16/06 at 02:23 AM

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:29am

Who is Joe?

And trust me, consider yourself lucky for missing Declan, he's downright awful. He can't act or sing; not sure what he's doing in musical theater.

[ValentineGirl]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 8:16am

I'm going to the Sunday matinee. I can't wait :)

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 8:38am

RB, can't act or sing? When the pre-requisite experience is swing choir - that is what you get.

I wish that you kids would demand more from the producers of Jonathan's masterpiece!

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 2:47pm

Joe Donohoe has been wih the tour off and on for the past three years. He plays gordon I believe, and the waiter. He also understudy's Mark (but in his three years has never gotten to play him)

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 4:39pm

Joe plays Steve, not Gordon.

[MimiLovesRoger]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 5:33pm

My friend texted me this morning telling my that he was going to go see it tonight...

I told him to pick up some playbills off of the floor to give them to me because I'm weird.

[CJWesselman]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 6:00am

Harley's voice started going out in the matinee today (god bless him he pulled through the whole show) and word was Joe might actually get to go on as mark for the evening show. no idea if he did or not, just thought I'd throw that out there. lol

[loveplays]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:15am

I was at last nights performance. We had both understudies for Mark and Roger, I must admit I was dissapointed at first, but I thought they were terrific. Everyone in the cast last night was strong and the audience seem to love them. Seasons of Love was the best I have heard in a long time. I was a little worried at first about it being a non equity cast bust I must say they were better than what I saw on broadway last time. Something should of told me not to see it on broadway with Scarey Spice playing mimi. Bravo to the cast for making it a wonderful evening.

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:35am

I saw RENT last night at 8.
I was in the 5th row.
*i dont know if we had any understudies or not so if we did can someone tell me?*
Wow. I didnt think RENT would impact me as much as it did. The cast was great. I cried like a big baby from Without You to Goodbye Love and a little bit at the end. Melvin Bell III who played Angel was , ohmygod amazing. He just fit it so well and everything. When he was dying and shaking and stuff it scared me, it looked like for real. I started crying everytime. I loved his facial expressions when he was always trying to make bad situations happy hah. Declan Bennet who played Roger at first looked like he kept forgetting his lines and was struggling but then im like wait? I think hes suppose to do this because when he started to yell at Mark im like WOAH okay ya he's a good actor haha. I also loved Warren G Nolan Jr, who played Collins, wow he had such a strong voice singing Ill Cover You (Reprise). Amazing. Harley Jay was hilarious! at Mark. Ahh! He was great in the Tango Maureen part. Chante Carmel Frierson, who plays Joanne was pretty funny too. I could see her start crying during without you. She was hiding her face and wiping away the tears haha. Krystal Brown did a ohmygod FABULOUS job as MIMI! Great dancer, and everything. Michael Ifill played Benny, he was hilarious during La Vie Boheme , gooing WAITER WAITER WAITERRR hahah. Mauren was plated by Tracy McDowell. She was the funniest one up there. When Mimi was coming back and maureen goes oh my god, she's up there , smacks Collins really hard in the chest with her arm and blurts OH MY GOD ! I was cracking up. Over the Moon was hilarious too. I looked over to my dad and was like MOOO DAD MOOOO!

Okay during La Vie Boheme when the waiter says "pasta with meatless balls" one of the guys at the table is wearing a like really short shirt and looks all gay and puts his hand to his mouth and finger out and goes EW! really gayish , HAHA I couldnt stop laughing it was so funny lol .

After the show also I was walking back to my car and I saw a homeless man in a corner with all his belongings and starting balling. I was like shocked how good and powerful RENT was then I saw that and coudlnt help myself.

Well, thats my review on it.
Updated On: 12/17/06 at 11:35 AM

[joanna2]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 9:20pm

Well, so much for seeing all understudies. Whoever said everyone was going to be out was nice and wrong. Declan was the only one gone (as I first thought,) but he is really talented. He might be a little one-sided, but he has a great voice.

[Bobby_child]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:25pm

CJWesselman--
as for harley's voice going, it happend when they stopped at buffalo. It was the last show, he started off the show and towards the end of RENT he had to stop singing. Then during the tango maureen,he lost his voice. The during Will I? mitch came on as mark.

So I am guessing that his voice hasnt fully come back to him yet.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:40pm

Harley's had vocal issues in several cities from reviews I've seen.

Yeah, and what was the deal with the story of everybody being out all weekend? IAmMyOwnMusical didn't know what he was talking about!

[loveplays]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 12:07am

sat 8p performance both mark and roger were understuides unless they forgot to change the board in the lobby. I thought they were both very good

[IAMmyownMUSICAL]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 12:25am

Erin, yes I do know what I'm talking about. Lol, everyone is an understudy, except the three that I mentioned in my first post.

Sorry to inform you, but when it comes to the Nat'l Tour of RENT, I have my facts straight.

[joanna2]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 7:36am

Just not for one of the shows you mentioned earlier.