Rent-Wicked Correlation

[OhSoWicked]

Rent-Wicked Correlation#0

Posted: 4/9/06 at 1:25pm

Hi all, I have to write a 7 page research paper for my "History of the Broadway Musical" class correlating two shows I have seen this semester. I am doing Rent and Wicked (I know, I know. I wanted to do shows that weren't so...hyped...but I dont have a choice). I was thinking of doing the whole outsiders-being integrated into mainstream society (or the fact that they DONT become integrated into mainstream society). Any other ideas for me? Or any ideas where I can research online? Thanks.

[wickedrentq]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#1

Posted: 4/9/06 at 4:13pm

I think especially in terms of your class, while some of it can be dedicated to correlations among the story, I think the bigger, more important correlations can be drawn from outside the story. The style of singing/the score, the new audience both have drawn and trends they have started, etc.

"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

[WickedGeek28]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#2

Posted: 4/9/06 at 4:18pm

I agree. I would write about how both drew younger audiences into the theater community and changed the "modern" show.

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

[Kitzarina]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#3

Posted: 4/9/06 at 4:18pm

eYEdIna MenzUl!1!!!!!!!!!11!

"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy

"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.

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[jimnysf]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#4

Posted: 4/9/06 at 6:57pm

How about how both are adored by pre-teenage girls?

"I've lost everything! Luis, Marty, my baby with Chris, Chris himself, James. All I ever wanted was love." --Sheridan Crane "Passions" ------- "Housework is like bad sex. Every time I do it, I swear I'll never do it again til the next time company comes."--"Lulu" from "Can't Stop The Music" ----- "When the right doors didn't open for him, he went through the wrong ones" - "Sweet Bird of Youth" ------------ --------- "Passions" is uncancelled! See NBC.com for more info.

[kyguy78]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#5

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:05pm

I would also bring up how they are adapted from source material that was not as mainstream as the shows have become.

[Fabrizio2]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#6

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:05pm

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[Unknown User]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#7

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:29pm

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Really, it wasn't funny the first time.

[wickedobsessed]

re: Rent-Wicked Correlation#8

Posted: 4/9/06 at 7:43pm

MAYBE you could relate them to how they both accept people:).