The Graffiti on the Nederlander Theater — Page 4

That's really weird. I remember reading posts on the RENT Livejournal community about the cleaning adventure this past summer, and the girl organizing it made a point of saying that she had checked with the theater, with the police, and with everyone else she could possibly think of to make sure what she was planning was legal and they wouldn't get in trouble. She even posted pictures the next day of people cleaning and said it went really well.

This is the first time I'm hearing that all those people were banned from lotto.

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"Memorial dump?"
Wow... Reading some of those messages on the front, as opposed to the real wall, is kinda sad. I mean, "RIP Heath Ledger?" It seems like people are SEARCHING for stuff to write, like they NEED to do it to be a real fan! I think the real wall only certain people can sign is great, a tradition, but 10 thousand "RENT PWNZ!" is just graffiti. WHY in the WORLD the theatre would allow it... it just turns people off, as the minority of over-extreme fanatics always tend to do...

Updated On: 1/28/08 at 02:29 PM

I am so happy and thankful that they're going to renovate the RENT theater. I find it incredibly disrespectful to write on the walls. If you call yourself a lover of theater, have some courtesy and leave the damn walls alone! I understand that the show has changed many lives......so write the cast a letter, don't leave it for them to read all over the theater walls. I wonder what's going into the Nederlander now?

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The RENT wall is in the back and the stuff in the pictures is more toward the front I think. I have signes the actual RENT wall (someone wrote over me tho)
the RENT wall is important cuz so many cast members and crew AND people who have been effected by the show have left messages on how the show has changed them. So why in the world so many people are up in arms about THAT wall is beyond me...but the newer wall..is crap..remove it lol

And everyone saying the Nederlander theater is sorta fit for RENT. RENT is about poverty and struggling, and the theater looks very "Bohemiane" (sp?) Wasnt that done on purpose by the creators of the show? I might be wrong tho

Updated On: 1/28/08 at 08:06 PM

It's rumored that the producers like it.

Right, I get that. It was more of a rhetorical, "why on earth would that be the logic?" question. If they're allowing one thing that is clearly a form of vandalism, why are they punishing people for another thing that is technically also vandalism? If the answer is truly that the producers like it, well... no comment.

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Updated On: 1/28/08 at 08:11 PM

I took a trip to the Nederlander today, and saw firsthad the horrendous defacement of the building. It's really everywhere! Someone wrote "Broadway Dies 6/1/08" over the frame of one of the doors, so this is still an ongoing thing, which is really sad.

Why does that, above all else, shock you? And being that it IS defacement, yeah, that actually is an appropriate word for it.

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If jaystarr meant it's sad that these kids think one show closing means Broadway is completely dead, then I agree.

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Updated On: 1/28/08 at 09:20 PM

yup- 'em...exactly....

J*

Updated On: 1/28/08 at 09:28 PM

I'm still waiting for someone to explain how this drek "changed their life." All it did for me was make me realize I had lost three hours forever.

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"I'm still waiting for someone to explain how this drek "changed their life." All it did for me was make me realize I had lost three hours forever"

It changed many people lives, i for one watched it with the OBC when i went to visit my aunt in the states.I was going through the uncomfortable moment where i thought i was gay but couldn't tell anyone (bit personal now) but had also tried suicide, on top of that a girl i knew had just died of Aids.The moment i started watching Rent i felt like it was talking to me, its message of No Day But Today haunted me for a long time after.After the show i felt "well if they are talking about all this in a Broadway musical it cant be that Taboo what im going through", it gave me sense of community and hope.

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sorry songanddanceman2, if this show spoke to you, it just muttered things that far more articulate voices have been saying for a couple of decades. I have always felt the show was trite crap dressed up to look avant garde. Showing the world through the eyes of the young and poor? Now there's a new one. Star-crossed lovers where one is dying of AIDS? Made for TV movies covered that a decade earlier. Adapting La Boheme? Not even close to a new idea. Rock opera? Been there many, many times before.

But that's all to be expected. If Jonathon Lawson hadn't died the day of the dress rehearsal, this show would have been a footnote in history.

This show was embraced by a generation of kids with limited world view and even more limited grasp of literature and theater (okay, perhaps you're not one of them) but seriously, this show is - to me - the Golden Globes of theater.

Oh, and in fact, even the lead song is bull. There 529,944 minutes in a year, not 529,600.



UPDATE: I forgot to mention the word "pretentious" anywhere in the above. Don't know how I managed to forget that.

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Updated On: 1/28/08 at 11:52 PM