'Rent' DVD Back Cover Art, Also Packaged With 'Godspell' or 'Tommy' & Other DVD News- Page 2

[RockabyeHamlet]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 4:58pm

I believe Contact was rehersed but never filmed.

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 8:30pm

That's what I heard also, but they might have filmed some of the rehearsals. That would be interesting.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 11:05pm

if I knew how to post pictures, I'd show how the Broadway production also often plays up the Mimi/Roger relationship as the 'leads'. I guess it's marketing in a way, but I personally wouldn't say that they play it up for the movie because it's the straight couple and they're both beautiful...many people think of Mimi and Roger as the leads, from bway and the movie. agree to disagree!

Also, I hate to dwell on it, but I still can't get over the cover...it's ok, it just looks like...it's trying too hard or something. Not that it does any good complaining about it now, i just think using either the movie poster design, the 'highlights' cd design, or just the plain Rent Bible design would have been wiser...whatever...arg

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 11:10pm

Yes, that was always considered the primary relationship in the show. That wasn't Wilson and Jesse on the cover of Newsweek back in the day, y'know.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 11:12pm

To add to what Namo said, that's also something that comes from La Boheme. That's its principal love story.

[LaVieHilary]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 11:46pm

Yes well also on the cover of Life magazine i know that they had Jesse and Idina. Yay! I love them both. There i don't think that it mattered which person was on the cover or who their character was. It was the actors. Their characters are just friends in the movie and happen to be Bi-sexual and gay.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/29/06 at 11:59pm

The pairings for Life were so seemingly random; I don't think they had anything to do with the characters. They really didn't look like it.