Rent 2015
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#2Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 9:55am
Sounds like small potatoes to me. Not really worth reporting on. Some company in Long Island is doing a 20th anniversary production in the NY area. Big deal.
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#4Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:00am
Again: a company that happens to operate in the NY area is producing the show. What are we getting excited about exactly?
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#5Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:03am
g.d.e.l.g.i. said: "Again: a company that happens to operate in the NY area is producing the show. What are we getting excited about exactly?
Why are you attributing your feelings to every one else on this board?
There may very well be some on this board who are looking forward to this upcoming production.
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Updated On: 8/25/15 at 10:03 AM
dramamama611
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#7Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 10:33am
The article IS misleading as it certainly sounds like a professional production... not community theater. (No matter how good they might be.)
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ggersten
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#11Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 11:47am
ggersten said: "In any form? How about in a circus? Or where the actors play their own instruments? Or with the sets replaced by projections? And I suppose Rent could be improved with a good tap number.
I want the damn thing turned into a Pixar animated movie! :)
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#12Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 11:52am
It has to be immersive, improvised and under-rehearsed so it can be a live performance so theatre won't die! The audience has to see the needle go into Mimi's arm and it would help if the hypodermic were loaded with something different every performance without notifying the actress so it can be so real, the audience can experience the level of unexpected danger that is the only true definition of "theatre". Oh, and Angel should literally die every night. Literally. Otherwise, it's not theatre. It just Netflix.
#13Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 11:55am
Mister Matt said: "It has to be immersive, improvised and under-rehearsed so it can be a live performance so theatre won't die! The audience has to see the needle go into Mimi's arm and it would help if the hypodermic were loaded with something different every performance without notifying the actress so it can be so real, the audience can experience the level of unexpected danger that is the only true definition of "theatre". Oh, and Angel should literally die every night. Literally. Otherwise, it's not theatre. It just Netflix.
I wholeheartedly agree with this concept. It needs to go all the way and really push the envelope. It needs to go all up in the audience's face and scare the living bejeezuz out of them. The message should be: THIS COULD BE YOU!!
It needs TO GO THERE!!
or else what the hell is the point?
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Updated On: 8/25/15 at 11:55 AM
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#14Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 1:27pm
I don't know about the NY City area, but it can't be that hard to find a production somewhere near you...at least once a year, anyway.
#15Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 1:42pm
It really bugs me how these Broadway news sites post these articles that they KNOW are misleading. Like when there was going to be a small production of Merrily We Roll Along Along in Queens, and they felt they needed to write an article about how it was returning to New York.
I even had some friends of mine (who love Broadway but don't follow the news as closely as I do) say to me "I'm so excited that there's finally going to be a revival of Merrily We Roll Along!"
#16Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 2:19pm
It's really not misleading to anyone who actually reads an article or a headline. If someone reads "return to NY" and stops there, deciding to interpret it as "Broadway revival", that's their own stupid fault. And why on earth would anyone on this board be bitching that there was an article on a theatre production, small potatoes or otherwise? A small theatre company has an article written about their production. GOOD! YAY! If you feel misled because you didn't want to bother reading past the headline and making assumptions...oh, well. If you don't think it's worthy of an article, then run your own website and only publish articles you deem worthy of excitement.
I guess we need another new musical to open soon so people won't have to dig so deep to find something to bitch and moan about.
Meanwhile, if Contact does not explicitly reenact its lyrics, they should not produce the show at all. That's not theatre. That's just Netflix. Cuz Netflix is the only example of the laziness and banality of North American dead theatre productions and audiences. Netflix.
#17Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 2:22pm
Mister Matt said: "It's really not misleading to anyone who actually reads an article or a headline. If someone reads "return to NY" and stops there, deciding to interpret it as "Broadway revival", that's their own stupid fault. And why on earth would anyone on this board be bitching that there was an article on a theatre production, small potatoes or otherwise? A small theatre company has an article written about their production. GOOD! YAY! If you feel misled because you didn't want to bother reading past the headline and making assumptions...oh, well. If you don't think it's worthy of an article, then run your own website and only publish articles you deem worthy of excitement.
I guess we need another new musical to open soon so people won't have to dig so deep to find something to bitch and moan about.
Meanwhile, if Contact does not explicitly reenact its lyrics, they should not produce the show at all. That's not theatre. That's just Netflix. Cuz Netflix is the only example of the laziness and banality of North American dead theatre productions and audiences. Netflix.
^^ THIS x 1,000
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#18Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 2:29pm
"And why on earth would anyone on this board be bitching that there was an article on a theatre production, small potatoes or otherwise?"
Ok, you make a good point there, I admit it. Certainly it's good for those small theatre companies to get exposure. And yes, everybody who sees the article shouldn't just assume it's a Broadway revival because it says "New York."
But to me, talking it up as a big "return to New York" does create a misleading impression. Especially when you consider that inevitably, people will skim the headline, as people frequently do, and be mislead (though you're right, that does make the reader mostly responsible for the error). I know that it technically is a "return to New York," but is that really worthy of news?
I'm not really that upset about it, though. It just kinda bugs me. We can agree to disagree.
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#23Rent 2015
Posted: 8/25/15 at 2:58pm
"But to me, talking it up as a big "return to New York" does create a misleading impression. Especially when you consider that inevitably, people will skim the headline, as people frequently do, and be mislead (though you're right, that does make the reader mostly responsible for the error). I know that it technically is a "return to New York," but is that really worthy of news?"
It's pretty much click bait, right? I don't have a huge problem with it as I read most of the stories posted anyway but the issue isn't that the story is written at all. The issue is that the headline is deliberately vague or sensational to create an impression that gets you to click on a story that you probably wouldn't have and generate more ad revenue or whatever.
Updated On: 8/25/15 at 02:58 PM
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