Similar story to wackjack's, although I have no "friend" as an excuse.
Erm...I regret seeing
Rent twice in four days this past July. I just don't know why I did it. I love the show, I love going to the Nederlander and doing lotto at the last minute, and I did see some pretty good and very different sets of performers in those two performances. BUT--also on my list of shows to try and see on the second day I ended up seeing
Rent?
The History Boys. To be fair (to myself), I wasn't terribly interested in
The History Boys at the time except that I'd read some great reviews, and when I stepped into that theater district air that day something pulled me back to
Rent before I even tried my luck with SRO at the Broadhurst. And I never got around to trying again.
Then when I saw the film version of
The History Boys in December, I kicked myself. Hard. I loved the writing and the performances so much that I was haunted by how oh-so-close I came to seeing it all live. The fact that I merely saw
Rent, after having just seen it four days before, made it that much worse (I even vowed never to see it again...a vow I broke on St. Patrick's Day at the last minute--I swear!--when I had nothing better to do after the parade with a friend--I swear!--who liked the movie). Oh well. I'll have the
History Boys DVD soon enough.
"If there is going to be a restoration fee, there should also be a Renaissance fee, a Middle Ages fee and a Dark Ages fee. Someone must have men in the back room making up names, euphemisms for profit."
(Emanuel Azenberg)
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