RENT: 30 Years Later
RENT: 30 Years Later
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:26amWhere do you think the lives of the characters in RENT will lead them to in 30 or so years from now?
#1re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:29am
Roger: DEAD
Mimi: DEAD
Angel: DEAD
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
rentforthesoul
Swing Joined: 6/3/06
#2re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:33am
Mimi, Roger, Collins and Bennie will all be dead... that makes me sad...
Maureen and Joann will still be together, unless they somehow contract the HIV virus also.
Mark will be a big movie producer and make millions of dollars in films. He will have big sucess with his documentry and hop on the first flight to Hollywood. After a couple years of success who will move to Santa Fe and open up a shop in honor of his friends.
Lol... Who knows what would have happened to them, but to tell you the truth, I think knowing the ending would ruin it for me.
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#3re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:34am
I guess it would really be about 20 years from now, though, yes?
I'm not sure. It's an interesting thought, though. RENT was so powerful and perfect for the time it came out. I never thought of the surviving characters lives beyond the show. You've got me thinking about Mark, though. Hmm. It would be cool to see what WhiteboySpice had to say on the subject!
#4re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:34amI see Mark as struggling all this life, giving up at 50, and becoming a waitor.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
Mikey3
Stand-by Joined: 5/23/05
#5re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 11:54am
Mark keeps being the witness,watchs everything.
and loves Maureen forever...even he doesn't want to.
And I hope someday the disease would never be a problem.
#6re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 12:38pm
Darn, I thought this was going to be about the show. Because, you know, 30 years later, Matt Caplan will still be involved. 
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BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#7re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 12:40pm
"Mimi, Roger, Collins and Bennie will all be dead... that makes me sad..."
Why would Benny be dead?
#8re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 12:47pm
Muffy Allison will have gone after him with an axe.
Can anyone say "So I Married an Axe Murderer"?
Or am I the only one who could see that happening? Hahaha.
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#9re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 1:12pm
Hmm, that is an interesting question. I think Mark would be really, really depressed after having lost Mimi, Collins, and especially Roger. That would probably be the hardest for him. He'd probably sit in a room, turn the lights off, and watch his film he made of his friends to cheer him up. Otherwise, he'd spend his time with Maureen and Joanne if they were open to it.
Maureen and Joanne would be like my aunt and uncle--still together but constantly bickering.]
Roger would die after Mimi, leaving Mark to be the one he says his main good-bye to. It would be very dramatic, with Roger acknowledging how much his perceptions have changed and how he realizes his life was worth living, etc.
I'm not quite sure what Collins would do until he died. Maybe spend a lot of time with Mark? He'd never find love like Angel again--he may just spend the rest of his life remembering and worshipping him/her.
I agree about Benny and the axe 
Oh, and one more thing...Mark would finally call his mother one day.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#10re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 1:54pmAre we sure they would all be dead? There are people who have been HIV+ for 20 years or more, and are still going strong. Have we given up all hope of ever finding a cure (or at least a more effective treatment)???
#11re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 1:55pm
Hahaha wickedrentq, I love the bit about Mark calling his Mom, hahahaha. It's so him.
"Cages or wings, which do you prefer?"-- Tick, Tick...BOOM!
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#12re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 2:01pmI wonder what Roger and Mimi would think of Life Aquatic.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#13re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 3:02pm
Maureen and Joann will still be together, unless they somehow contract the HIV virus also.
We will all be alive unless we somehow contract the HIV virus also :P
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wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#14re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 3:56pmJon, I'm just considering the time of the piece. At the time they got the virus, it was very unlikely that they would have survived. If they got the virus today, then I would say it's pretty unlikely they would die from it.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#15re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 4:00pmI was going to post the same thing until I saw that Jon already had.
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#16re: RENT: 30 Years Later
Posted: 7/6/06 at 6:17pmI feel that MARK is the Character Jonathan Larson chose to be himself, and therefore Mark will die of a heart condition after his movie gets picked up by a major production company, but he will never see it open.
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