RENTing Insanity — Page 2

Hey Kyle , Maggie is on a four month contract...she was suppose to just be replacing Ava while she was out in Cali doing a pilot..but Ava is not coming back...so you may see a lot of Maggie in the next months. If she can keep her calling out down, I think they might keep her. I agree she brings a lot of life into Maureen and what a voice!

"I am always appauled at how sloppy and amateurish Michael Greif's direction is. Why does this man have anything resembling a career?"

Well, I am rather appalled (yay, spelling) by your almost unreadable spelling and grammar and your consistently unintelligent negative reviews. If you were twelve and naive and all positive, I'd forgive the lack of intelligence you convey in your posts, but (wait, how old ARE you?) all you do is brutally slam people as if you somehow could do better. Nothing intelligent about it. Hell, I agree RENT is in sad shape right now, but damn, you could learn how to express yourself better.

I think Namo's right about the connection between looks and how much you love a performer.

"I saw parts of the movie on encore, needless to say I didn't care for it. Especially during the scene in the restaurant with the song. How they were singing about religion, than they sung about something that was perverted. . Than again, it's based in NYC, the city of sin."

wtf? If NYC is the city of sin, why are you here?

i would also like to add that i highly enjoy Rent.. with a capable cast.. and i would love to see what a more capable director and design team could do with the materical. sadly, i think if anyone tried to fix any of the inherent flaws in the materical, there may be mass explosions of rentheads' brains....

I'm not a big on the Rent-bashing either, simply because I enjoy the many merits of the work and it really was an important show for me personally as a teenager right at the time it came out and was still relevant. I don't think the material or direction is as bad as many claim, nor is it as good as others love to claim. It's solid theatre fare, dressed up to sound like rock music and infused with themes and characters that just seemed so cool 10 years ago.

Aside from the natural aging of the show, I think things really started to go wrong when they stopped connecting with the audiences and began pandering to them. It's stopped feeling organic and spontaneous and is almost patronizing at its worst. They don't seem to treat their current audiences as if they have any intelligence or taste, and this may be self-fulfilling to the poor first-timers who are just excited to be there after idolizing the CD for years and years. This is destructive and an unfair misrepresentation of something so iconic which has clearly "jumped the shark"

BTW, how is NYC the city of sin? THE city of sin is Vegas, and NYC hardly even qualifies as A city of sin. there is plenty more sin to be found in most urban areas at considerably lower prices than here. it's all moot anyway since sin is a false concept. there's right and there's wrong. sorry to get off-topic. I just wonder if this is a serious poster with real opinions or it's some sort of parody.

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Updated On: 10/15/06 at 01:35 AM