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Rent tour; "two significant changes to the production"
#75re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 12:50pm
Ssh. This thread gives the kids some essential winter break exercises in creativity and critical thinking.
*snort*
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#76re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 12:56pm
I'll just come right out and say it:
If Mimi dies at the end in this production, I'll be pissed.
springawoken819
Swing Joined: 4/22/07
#77re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 12:56pm
i personally, have seriously high hopes for these changes. I think this could be really really great, although I have no better guesses than you guys do as to what the changes may be. However, I think that if the director made the changes himself it can't be too big a deal, so probably no lyric changes or moving songs. Most likely just some blocking, and i personally would love if they did the finale the way they did in the alternate movie ending.
And also, I believe that if Anthony is happy about the changes that is definitely a good thing. I can't wait to see this tour in DC in May. (and am very bummed that it leaves the night i come back from school, so I'll only be able to see it once.)
fizzthelibertine
Understudy Joined: 4/30/08
#78re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 1:03pm
Maybe the show will open with Seasons of Love. (I hope not.)
Updated On: 1/2/09 at 01:03 PM
ActingIsLovee
Stand-by Joined: 1/16/08
#79re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 1:14pm
The most moving thing ever was in the Swedish production (A crap production unfortunately)....In "Goodbye Love" , if I remember correctly, Angel is seen stripping off all his makeup. Going from the glamorous and beautiful Angel, to the naked and dying Angel. Absolutely gorgeously staged (hmmm, I can write better than that...what a bad sentence) and incredibly moving!
^that sounds beautiful.
And Mimi WILL.NOT.DIE.
It would completely destroy Larson's original concept, and they would not let that happen, especially with original cast members and production members on board.
I like the idea of a still of Larson at the end but I find it highly unlikely as he isn't a character in the show, he did not die of AIDS, and other than RENThead crazies and theatre buffs, nobody will know who he was.
#80re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 1:49pm
Literally two people in the whole world liked Rent: Remixed, husk_charmer and... CONAries, I think is the other one (sorry if I'm wrong and slandering your name!). I'm pretty sure they're intelligent people who understand that the unpopularity of their opinion means the show probably just plain wasn't any *good*. 
When's the tour kicking off anyway? What are the chances of us leaving idle speculation alone until someone has seen the tour and can report back to us? :3
#81re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 1:52pmI think it opens today or tomorrow, so never fear. All questions will soon be answered.
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#82re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:16pmit opens the 6th. i've got friends going that night.
"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#83re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:27pmAlthough it's doubtful that these 'big changes' will include Mimi dying, those of you who are protesting that possibility so strongly should know that that did, indeed, happen in a couple of the international productions of the show through the years. It's not as impossible a suggestion as some are making it out to be.
#84re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:30pmI don't think it's an impossible suggestion, universally. I do think it's extremely unlikely under this particular circumstances, given the information we've got. It seems -- to me, at least -- like exactly what the article is saying it's not.
TheCharleston
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/18/08
#85re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:36pm
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
Just chill out, people...
#86re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:51pm
"Broadway World posters please don't reproduce!!!
Yeah, cause so many BWW posters are into reproductive sex... "
Coffee came out of my nose---I needed that laugh! (now i need a new keyboard...)
#87re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 2:55pm
LOL Maybe the cast will put out! in the video justin Johnston said "The more you scream and participate the more we put out!" Maybe everyone in the cast will put out? XD
That would be a change that woulden't effect the show but it would be a change.
Maybe the tour has more items for people to purchase?
Maybe during christmas bells the vendors will sell some new items?
Maybe the cast is going to throw stuff at the audience? Or make it snow on us during Christmas bell?
I'm seeing the show feb 6th at 2 so I'll be there screaming like an idiot.
I'll be one of those people you all hate LOL.
#88re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:20pm
How is additional merchandise a change to the show you see on stage?
God, Rent fans never cease to amaze me.
I'm seeing the show feb 6th at 2 so I'll be there screaming like an idiot
No shock there.
#89re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:23pm
Have some respect. You don't scream in a theatre EVER! If it was Patti LuPone playing Mimi, she would threaten your very life in the middle of Out Tonight!
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#90re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:29pm
Patti LuPone was playing Mimi
Bad mental image!!!!
haha. I'll be seeing the show in Tampa and I'm pretty excited!
Send in the clowns...Send in the crowds!
"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."-Stephen Sondheim
#91re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:29pmIf you are going on Feb. 3rd (when I am), please don't scream. I may have to punch you in the face.
#92re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:29pm
"Have some respect. You don't scream in a theatre EVER! If it was Patti LuPone was playing Mimi, she would threaten your very life in the middle of Out Tonight!"
Now THAT'S a good production of RENT!
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
#93re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:37pm
Yeah gonna go on the 6th. Don't care what anyone says I'm screaming. Punch me and I may have tp punch you back.
Patti is not Mimi and you put a terrible mental image in my head.
Now I think I will go on the 3rd just to scream for you.
#94re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:39pmOhhh, a vengeful Renthead. My favorite.
#95re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:39pm^ That is where the ejecto seats would come in handy. Do you care about anyone else trying to enjoy the show? Get the DVD & scream at home.
#96re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:40pm
"If it was Patti LuPone playing Mimi"
That would make me scream.
#97re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:45pmNo, it's only about proving how much YOU care to everyone around you. Guess what. They're not interested in you whoring your investment.
#98re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:49pmBring it on Celra!
#99re: Rent tour; 'two significant changes to the production'
Posted: 1/2/09 at 3:56pm
Yeah gonna go on the 6th. Don't care what anyone says I'm screaming. Punch me and I may have tp punch you back.
What would Jonathan Larson say?!?!!? 
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