Rent vs. Spring Awakening — Page 2

Yeah I know what you mean.....lots of fans just freak out over the actors and that's it...there are a few of us who have been following the show since the beginning and fell in love with it before we even knew who was in it. Then of course a bunch of girls saw some pics of jonathan groff and voila.

Rent Please

RENT hands down

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RENT. Hands down.

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If we were still in the late 90s, I would say RENT. But RENT has long since left its heyday and I haven't seen a truly good performance of the show since probably 2000.

So, Spring Awakening.

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Allow me to revise the above post.

RENT in a heartbeat!

I HATED SPRING AWAKENING!!!!!! UGH IT WAS AWFUL

Updated On: 11/19/07 at 09:19 AM

I think I could have more respect for Spring Awakening if they didn't replay the whole sex scene in the beginning of Act 2. It would be more impactful and less "in your face" if they just left it a little to the imagination. The thrusting in the second act is unnecessary, we get it, they had sex. That being said Spring Awakening has elements that are both inventive and interesting. It's a good show.

They erred in a more positive way in Rent. More likely than not, at that time, Mimi would not recover enough to burst into song, and realistically none of those charactors survived. The ending was tailored to put a positive spin on desperate and hopeless situation. I believe Rent was crucial to changing opinions and informing people who were oblivous at that time about AIDS.

Spring Awakening was written over a hundred years ago, adapted to speak to today's youth and it will likely be readapted 100 years from now with the same issues still at hand. I'm not saying it's irrelevant because of that. It speaks to people today and that's wonderful, but it just doesn't have the same potential to effect change in the world.

If we are talking about which show I would rather see right now I would have to say Spring Awakening. I saw it in May and would like to see it again. If the question is more general (or if you had asked 2 months ago), then the answer is Rent all the way. Rent has been at the top of my list for over 10 years and nothing as of yet has touched it.

If by bad, you mean controversial.

I think one of the big problems with Spring Awakening is that the original morality of the play gets lost and muddled in everything else that's going on. The fact that people have trouble figuring out the so-called "point" is just that issue, which I blame mostly on the fact that they changed an explicit rape to something that can fall between the lines. I always thought it was saying something to the effect of, "this is what happens when we repress our children" -- not that suicide, etc. is the result of sexual discovery, but, of course, that interpretation sort of falls through if it's not rape. They've made a hero of Melchior, which I think is a disservice to what the original play was trying to convey.

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i love rent. i think it had its time though and now its spring awakenings time. idk which i would want to see more though. id just go to both!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha spring Awakening is not even close to Rent

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"I think the creators of Spring Awakening are creating part of the problem by the way they are selling this show. In numerous interviews I have heard them say the theme is that society and its views on sex and young people is the cause of all the problems these characters have."


I think the show is great because it brings up these types of Taboo's. There are a Ton of people in this country who remind me a lot of the parents in SA. They think that by sheltering them they are helping them , but in the end it hurts them because kids dont learn the reality of things. By them being overprotective they do more harm than good!

Updated On: 11/19/07 at 03:37 PM

Great... thanks for the clarification