RENT's 5,000th

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RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 6:50pm

The matinee on Sat May 10 will be performance number 5,000 for RENT. Anyone know if they have anything special planned? Or is 5,000 no longer considered a milestone?

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re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:15pm

By my calculation the matinee on May 24th is the 5000th performance.

EDIT- I'm using ibdb.com and not playbill.com's list which has a few other errors.

This date (with the use of reverse counting) was also confirmed by Entertainment Weekly when they ran their article on Rent's initial closing date and mentioned it was closing with 5,011 or 5,012 performances, something like that.

Updated On: 4/21/08 at 08:15 PM

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:19pm

I second this question!

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:29pm

Well as of April 13 it was at 4,971 perfs.

By my calculations that's 29 perfs to go, putting it on Saturday the 10th.

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:45pm

4963 as of April 20, 2008 per ibdb

4971 as of April 27th, 4979 as of May 4th, 4987 as of May 11th, 4995 as of May 18th, which brings you to the matinee of May 24th for the 5000th show.

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:55pm

Back to the main question, will there be anything special that day?

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:57pm

I don't know if anything is planned. I was just searching and got nothing.

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:57pm

How sad.

A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!'' Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:58pm

They totally should do something!

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

#10

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 8:59pm

This thread is too mathematical.

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#11

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:00pm

As i said, its sad!

#12

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:02pm

They'll never, ever have their 525,600th show!!

WAHHH!

Oh the humanity of it all!!!

*sniff*

*shakes hand to the heavens*

Damn you!!

#13

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 9:36pm

LOL, solitarychele. (assuming that was a joke)

#14

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/21/08 at 11:09pm

Wickedboy2,

Why do you say this is sad? Is it because you don't like the show and you find it sad that it finally is reaching this far in terms of a performance count.

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#15

re: RENT's 5,000th

Posted: 4/22/08 at 12:39am

I see frogs_fan. Playbill lists 4,971 as of April 13, but IBDB lists 4,963 as of April 20. I wonder if Playbill is including the 16 previews as part of the tally? That would account for the discrepency. If so, they are wrong, you are right and that puts the 5,000th on May 24.

Either way, we still don't know if anything special is planned.

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