Rent DEFEATS Big (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)

[slimandslam]

Rent DEFEATS Big (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#1

Posted: 3/20/08 at 10:53pm

UPDATE: BALLOTING IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS GAME.

Which nineties musical do you like better: Big or Rent?

(Amusingly enough, these are the two shows with the shortest titles in the tournament.)

Please vote either on this thread or by PMing me.

The deadline for votes is Saturday, March 22nd, 11pm EDT.

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To view the tournament so far, consult this thread (updated daily):
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=958857

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https://www.tournamentpilot.com/tourney.php?tid=744

For general March Madness information, consult this thread:
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=958584

Updated On: 3/22/08 at 10:53 PM

[Mattbrain]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#2

Posted: 3/20/08 at 10:54pm

Rent

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[Liverpool]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#2

Posted: 3/20/08 at 10:57pm

Rent

[christhefish]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#3

Posted: 3/20/08 at 10:57pm

Rent

[antiandrewx]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#4

Posted: 3/20/08 at 10:59pm

RENT

[MovieGuy1031]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#5

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:01pm

Ohmigod.

Abstain.

(RENT, i guess.)

"The nice thing about the rain is that it always stops... eventually."

- Eeyore

[jakebloke]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#6

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:02pm

Rent

[insertclevernamehere]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#7

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:05pm

Rent

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

[BDrischBDemented]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#8

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:06pm

Rent

"Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"

[Not Barker, Todd.]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#9

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:06pm

RENT

PLEASE! Do not post anything negative or dramatic! DidYouReallyHearMe has LOST the ability to ignore such posts and he will comment! Please, help him.


With Clay Aiken in Spamalot, all of Broadway is singing a collective "There! Right! There!" -Me-

"Not Barker, Todd is the only person I've ever known who could imitate Katherine Hepburn...in print." -nmartin-

[BustopherPhantom]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#10

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:07pm

Rent

"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum

[BroadwayBound062]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#11

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:08pm

RENT

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[pushdabutton]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#12

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:14pm

Rent

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#13

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:15pm

I love big, but RENT is just a better musical altogether.

He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#14

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:16pm

RENT


(...although I have to say I didn't despise BIG.)

[roseaddams]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#15

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:25pm

RENT

"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite

[H.Higgins]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#16

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:32pm

Rent

[Stefrio]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#17

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:35pm

Rent

[LePetiteFromage]

#18

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:37pm

Updated On: 5/7/09 at 11:37 PM

[Mealz1042]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#19

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:48pm

Rent, Rent, Rent, ra Rent, Rent.
yeah, rent.

<-- Gwen Stewart, SOLoist at the last show of RENT
Cages or wings? Which do you prefer? Ask the birds. Fear or love, baby? Don't say the answer Actions speak louder than words. (Tick, Tick... BOOM!)

[chrysler99]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#20

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:48pm

Rent.

[Mekroth]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#21

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:49pm

Wow. Way to kill Big.

RENT.

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#22

Posted: 3/20/08 at 11:54pm

Rent.

[WhizzerMarvin]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#24

Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:07am

Rent

Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!

[munkustrap178]

re: Big vs. Rent (March Madness, Round 2, game 9)#25

Posted: 3/21/08 at 12:07am

RENT

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson