"Rent: The Podcast" and active RENT forums

Hi there! Two questions:

Does anyone know what happened to "Rent: The Podcast" that was talked about on Playbill and if there is still a way to hear it? It was on Apple Podcasts but no longer exists. I reached out to the people behind the "Everything Is Rent" podcast and they didn't know about it. I accessed the old RENT site via the Internet Archive and was able to find a bunch of interviews and video clips but the Podcast link no longer works.

https://www.playbill.com/article/rent-heads-can-snag-podcasts-about-their-favorite-rock-musical-com-131943

Not sure if all this falls under the "no bootleg appeals" rule and I apologize if I'm breaking it.

Regardless, can someone please point me in the direction of active RENT forums/communities? All of the links I've been finding are either dead or inactive. Ever since the moment I heard Renée's voice in Hamilton on Disney+ my inner teenage RENThead was brought back to life like Mimi. A lot has changed on the internet since the late 2000's and I have a lot of lost time to make up for.

Thank you!

Wasn’t around for that one. http://musicals.net/forums/viewforum.php?f=68 Is inactive. I am amazed a fragment of the Tripod sites still exist, like these: http://atlantis2001.tripod.com/testrent.html http://members.tripod.com/Melissa_Umlor/rentindex.html You have to click around to find links that work.

LizzieCurry said: "As a former mod of Compulsive Bowlers, I can almost assure you there are no currently active Rent message boards."


FML. Well, can you please point me in the direction of urls— fan sites or message boards—that were active 2006-2008 so I can scour the Internet Archive for information, preferably ones that didn’t require a login? If not, any urls of awesome sites from over the years would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


Looks like I’m contacting Playbill.

Fandoms of individual shows don't really have their own individual stomping grounds anymore when it comes to message boards and forums. That died out pretty much in the mid/late-2000s. You can try Tumblr, but it's hard to navigate without having your own account, and learning the quirks and moods there is a process (which can be fruitful, but still).

This reminds me of the days when Playbill had chat rooms. Anybody remember THOSE?

LizzieCurry said: "I met a few people in the Playbill chat rooms! Had to have been 1999 or so?"

I met my wife in there! I mean, my ex-wife. The marriage went the same way the chat rooms did, lolllllll.

My memory of Compulsive Bowlers is how funny some of the story tellers were. I was not at the performance when Gilles the Squeegee Man was a last minute substitute for Anthony Rapp's Mark, but the transcription of whatever the hell it is his brain made up on the spot where "And Maureen Johnson, fresh from her performance..." was supposed to go had me crying huge tears, I was laughing so hard, I may as well have been there. Or the post card back to the cast from Daphne after she left to go make "Wild Things" in Florida: "Matt Dillon is a HO!".