RENT on the Today Show- Page 9

[Abikatmom]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:47pm

Wow, you're good!

[thesparklingdiamond]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:49pm

do you know if the poster image is online anywhere? I couldn't get a very detailed look at it from the tv screen

[Abikatmom]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:51pm

There you go.

[loudasthehelliwant]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:55pm

*grabs at online picture*

I want one!

*acts like Veruca Salt*

Mommy, I want one...

[LariTheLoud]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:57pm

I need one for my dorm room.

[thespian geek]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 1:58pm

I really love how the window boxes are set up on that poster. You've got Mark next to Maureen/Joanne, and Mimi is above Roger and Benny, then Collins and Angel next to each other, too.

[Abikatmom]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:02pm

I would love to get my hands on a "real" one also...I printed it off and I have a hand held one, but would love a full size poster.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:08pm

Ugh. I WILL be bothering movie theatres for a poster.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:10pm

I actually just got tears seeing that! This has been a happy couple of days... international trailer, Music Video, release date for soundtrack, Today Show, and now poster! What else!

The poster: SHEER FABULOSITY!!!

[Mimi Imfurst]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:10pm

sony has been wonderful at reaching out to their fans.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:13pm

It looks amazing as desktop wallpaper!

[Abikatmom]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:18pm

So true. I am a high school teacher and we start back to school in a few days and my kids are going to think I am a little nuts, I've replaced Shakespeare with RENT! If I could only figure out a way to spend a whole six weeks on it...any ideas...

[idinarocksmysocks!510]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:21pm

This movie is going to be so big! Sony is really nice with the advertising.

[loudasthehelliwant]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:21pm

LOL.

At least you're a cool teacher, though.

[kitkatt456]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:24pm

Wow that poster looks good. I woke up at 6 am to watch the today show, but the Rent cast didn't come on till like 8 so I watched it then went back to sleep, lol. It was so good though, and it made me so happy. Everyone looked amazing!

[Abikatmom]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:25pm

I try. Last year when we were working on our unit on poetry, I did play "Without you" as a poetic form...I wrote it on the board and handed out copies of it. Some thought it was great, some laughed at the recording.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:26pm

Hey everyone. I was at the Today Show today and it was amazing! I got there at 5:30 and there already was a line forming down 48th st. At ike 5:45, all the cast had a soundcheck and they sang boths songs many times so we had a nice preview. They let us into the filming area around 6:30 and we got spots right against the barricades to the left of the stage a little ways back. I was holding up a sign that said... RENT NO DAY BuT TODAY and the Rent was in the Rent logo and Today was in the Today show logo. Before they all came on to the stage, which was like at 8:15, Anthony went around and signed autographs and took pictures. During the commercial breaks it was a lot of fun cause the cast was dancing dorky and stuff. After the whole Rent segment, the whole cast went around signing for a couple of minutes, except most of them stayed in one little section before leaving. Idina though signed for every person that was there and took like one picture with two little cute girls. Bryant Park wasn't that crowded for the soundcheck. Jesse wasn't there so Wilson sang his part in SOL. He isn't as strong as Jesse is but his last not on DIED was amazing. It was a real fun day.

[Luckydave14]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:27pm

Oh, and they randomly gave out the movie posters to like 20 people but I didn't get one I was so upset.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:35pm

Abikatmom: I wish you were my teacher!!

And the poster looks fabulous in the window of my car too! I figure I'll do my part to advertise for the movie!

[musicnmath]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:39pm

Abikatmom - you can go back to the source material - La Boheme...which was based on something else before that (I forget). You could chat about how artists were/are always trying to be relevant to their time...and the changes and reinterpretations they've had to make to their source material over time. Art tells us what was important in various eras. This makes sense in my head...I hope it makes sense in words

[cudramacat]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:39pm

EEEKKK! This is exciting! The poster is fabulous, the Today show rocked my socks off and I would give anything to be living in NYC. Ah well! Hope everyone who was there had a blast! oh! I work a movie theater, maybe i can get my hands on one of those posters!!! :)

[bwayfan3]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:45pm

Loving the poster. At Bryant Park, it was the back cover of the program, so I have a little reminder. Curious thing though, you know how they list this cast on everything in ABC order. Well they did that on the poster but the names just stop after Idina Menzel. No Adam, Anthony, Tracie or Wilson.

[musicnmath]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:47pm

bwayfan --

what?! that's got to be a mistake or something. That's ridiculous -- especially when singing to a Broadway crowd that knows Adam more than Rosario...

[bwayfan3]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:51pm

I'm talking about the small print that's always part of a movie poster. you know when it lists all the producers, director, etc.
The top line has all of the studios bringing the movie to us.
The second line says based on the muscial by Jonathan Larson....RENT...Rosario Dawson Taye Diggs Jessie L. Martin Idina Menzel
The next line says casting by Bernard Telsey Casting
And the rest of the names do not appear.

Perhaps they will change it for the real poster.

Wow enormous claps of thunder!! Good thing the Bryant Park show is over.

[evil_twin2327]

Posted: 8/4/05 at 2:57pm

"The top line has all of the studios bringing the movie to us.
The second line says based on the muscial by Jonathan Larson....RENT...Rosario Dawson Taye Diggs Jessie L. Martin Idina Menzel
The next line says casting by Bernard Telsey Casting "



most likely because those are the names that the average moviegoer would recognize. Rosario from movies, Taye from TV/movies, Jessi from L&O, and Idina has a pretty big young following, plus some people recognize her as Taye's wife and from gues spots on TV.