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#2

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:49pm

It's good to have you back, Gil. PLEASE post abridged scripts more often, that one was hilarious and the WSS one was one of my all-time favorites.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08
#3

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 3:56pm

ONE SONG
WHERE WILL I, FIND A TUNE?
MAYBE
LIKE-THE-ONE-THAT-I SING NOOOOW?
WHERE CAN IIIIIII.....

Bwahaha... re: Rent Abridged
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#4

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 4:00pm

And THANK YOU for making me realize I'm not the only one who believes "Your Eyes" is horribly clichéd and nowhere near good enough to take a year to write or to bring someone back from the edge of death.

My song didn't make her AIDS disappear.
Formerly SirNotAppearing - Joined 3/08

Updated On: 6/1/09 at 04:00 PM

#5

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 4:04pm

Well done, sir.

WELL. DONE.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#7

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 6:58pm

Thank you so much for that, BA! Other than mistaking Angel for black and not Latino/a (here's a tip: if a man has that name, chances are he's either Hispanic or a vampire), you were extremely spot on. And I love "Rent" - so much that I refuse to see the movie.

Not long after "Rent" became such a smash, someone (I believe her name was Jenn Pease) posted a hysterical MST3K treatment of the entire show online. Alas, it has since been lost in the Internets.
#8

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 8:11pm

That is probably the best Abriged blog ever!!!
My favorite lines in RENT:


ASSHOLE #2
No, we got our 7/8ths of a coat. Our work here is done.


WHITE NERD
Shut up you, taunting me with the character development that I shall never be privy to!


GAY BLACK GUY WHO *IS* A CROSS-DRESSER
Why are you in this show?

STRAIGHT BLACK GUY
I'm played by Taye Diggs.

WHITE NERD
Touche.


GORDON
(walks up to the platform)
Wow, you're right! Having AIDS is much more optimistic from up here!


Homeless People in the streets suddenly do synchronized choreography.
Perhaps Homeless People in the 90s were just more talented.


DINING PATRONS IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO
Wait, the chef is a cross-dresser? No way I'm eating here. Leave that **** in Broadway Musicals where it BELONGS!



DRUG DEALER
You can't invite her out for a dinner party, she's supposed to be doing drugs tonight!

WHITE HUNK
No, I've SAVED HER FROM YOU!

DRUG DEALER
Nooooooooooo!
(melts)

EVIL
(is defeated once again!)


GAY BLACK GUY WHO *IS* A CROSS-DRESSER
(having an orgasm as he dies?!?!?!?)
OH NO I DIED OF SEX!


WHITE HUNK traded in his guitar for a whole car.

WHITE NERD
Boy, money made no sense in the 1990s!


LESBIAN BLACK GIRL AND LESBIAN WHITE GIRL
Help! We have LATINA GIRL and she's dying of a lethal combination of AIDS and EVIL DRUGS and WHITE HUNK NOT LOVING HER ENOUGH!


WHITE HUNK
My song didn't make her AIDS disappear.
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl

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#10

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:12pm

That was side-splittingly funny.

One of my favorite parts is this:

WHITE HUNK
(enters)
Hey I'm back, and it's cough months later.
I sold my car and bought a guitar again and came up with an idea
for ONE SONG which I wrote.


WHITE NERD
Sounds like a character development I'd love to see if they
ever make a movie version of this!


WHITE HUNK
Nah... It'll end up with me singing on a mountaintop.


WHITE NERD
Your epiphany was The Sound of Music?!?!?
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#11

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:17pm

Another one so soon! How exciting! Thanks.
#12

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:45pm

Thank you so much for that, BA! Other than mistaking Angel for black and not Latino/a (here's a tip: if a man has that name, chances are he's either Hispanic or a vampire), you were extremely spot on.

Shaun Earl? Justin Johnston?
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#13

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 10:53pm

Thank you again so much for these brilliant jabs at shows. I really do enjoy them and this is perhaps my favorite. I loved all the stuff about the indeterminable time period and giggled every time the Chorus returned.

Oh, and:


EVIL
(is defeated once again!)

Truly amazing. :)
#14

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/1/09 at 11:33pm

I just killed an hour reading through those scripts I laughted so hard during the Brooklyn one when the chairs started singing about how uncomfortable they were that my roommate came running in. Love them!
Some of my favorite quotes that no one mentioned yet include:
GAY BLACK GUY WHO'S
*NOT* A CROSS-DRESSER
Hey, everyone, I hacked the ATM at the supermarket!

WHITE NERD
What's the code?

GAY BLACK GUY WHO'S
*NOT* A CROSS-DRESSER
A-N-G-E-L.
WHITE NERD
....
WHITE HUNK
ATMs have numbers as pin codes.

WHITE NERD
My film was rejected from every single film festival. Apparently nobody wants a film that's just people smiling and hugging in front of a backdrop.
BOTH
AAAAAGH!
(are attacked by a virtual pterodactle. And virtual AIDS)
MIT KID #2
Worst video game ever.
A "THELMA AND LOUISE" REFERENCE TO THROW OFF ANY POSSIBILITY OF
YOU EVER FIGURING OUT WHAT YEAR WE'RE ACTUALLY IN, AND WE'RE AT:



Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.

Updated On: 6/1/09 at 11:33 PM

#15

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:20am

"Shaun Earl? Justin Johnston?"

Are these Black guys who have played Angel? I'm pretty sure that the first Angel I saw was black. Maybe memory fails. I know the original Angel was latino and that Angel is a latino name, but I for some reason figured Angel was a new name he gave himself post gay/crossdressing, not a parental-given name. Again, maybe based on the first Angel I actually saw.

I've always been a little confused about the races of Rent cast members. It was the one show where they simply refused to cast different races than the OBC. Besides Mimi, this never made sense to me.

I mean, even in the supposedly horrendous London revival a few years back, they ignored the established races entirely in casting. Granted they totally ignored the text's support of Mimi being Latina, and of Angel's crossdressing. And they made almost everybody white. But you see what I mean...
- Gil http://www.broadwayabridged.com
#17

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:54am

I have nothing else to say other than... That. Was. Brilliant.
#18

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 2:14am

That was utter brilliance. I mean, I love Rent and all, but I love your parody! I always enjoy your work, and this one is one of your best yet!

~Steven
#19

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 7:53am

@LizzieCurry

Sure, but not even LMGTFY will tell me for sure whether these guys are of African or Latin descent:
re: Rent Abridged
re: Rent Abridged

Perhaps I need a LMTYWRTGA.

(Let me tell you what race these guys are.)
- Gil http://www.broadwayabridged.com
#20

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 11:25am

I just read the Little Mermaid and almost died laughing!
SO FUNNY!
"i had no idea billy elliot was about one boy's triumph over epilepsy."-FindingNamo
#21

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 12:07pm

My favorite line was:

GAY BLACK GUY WHO
*IS* A CROSS-DRESSER
Why are you in this show?


STRAIGHT BLACK GUY
I'm played by Taye Diggs.

<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#22

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 12:50pm

Ahahahaha, I love the "Enter what's possibly the only Gay person in the world with zero fashion sense."
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#23

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:09pm

Oh my God, that thing was so hilarious. I need to read more of these.
#24

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 1:33pm

My favorite Broadway Abridged moment ever:
CLEAVANT DERRICKS
Now, instead of breaking for an intermission at this peak
high-tension point in the middle of the play, we're going to
go on INTERMISSIONLESS!

SEATS IN THE PLYMOUTH THEATRE
(singing)
WE, ARE,
VERY UN-COMFORTABLE.
WE, ARE,
VERY UN-COMFORTABLE.
DON'T YOU WISH YOU HAD AN INTER-MISS-ISS-ION
SOMETHING HEART HEART LOVE LOVE LOVE!

AUDIENCE
Shut up.

Love it
Oh, and I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop.
#25

re: Rent Abridged

Posted: 6/2/09 at 3:06pm

This was hilarious, as are basically all Broadway Abridged parodies. I am definitely a fan!

Incidentally, somebody can definitely *look* "black" and still be of Latin descent. And there have definitely been a TON of biracial or black actresses as Mimi, including Simone, Krystal Wasthington, Tamyra Gray, and Krystal Brown to name a very few.

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