The RENT movie date...- Page 6

[liotte]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:54pm

I'm hesistant to bring any kids under 12 to see Rent. On Saturday, I have 2 5th graders who are coming with me, but their parents have seen the show and said it was ok, and the kids have seen the movie. I know I'll still have a lot to explain to them though!

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:54pm

I saw Beauty and the Beast when I was 6, and all I remember is a pitchfork being thrown into the orchestra pit. Shows how mature I was....

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:55pm

Can someone post the link for the online lotto again...sorry silly me, I managed to lose it AGAIN. By the by I think it's incredible that you post on here Fredi...you are one of my biggest idols! What I would have given to have been older than 4 when the show came out...that why I'm entering the lotto to see you guys preform it :)!

Liotte, when you bring kids, which teaching are they from?

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[dmb_rent]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:55pm

oh wow, i'm dumb....i didn't know you were in the LK, fredi. when did you finish that?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:56pm

Haha, Fantabulous, I know. "Is it over now?" "I want Skittles!"

Antonique also said she saw a 4 year old the other night in the first row. We figured they got lost on their way to The Lion King across the street or something.

[WickedRentLuv]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:56pm

aspiringactress, i feel the same way...i was only 9

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:56pm

Nope, I'll write it down though. It's just for my English class where we get very random but interesting essays like that, this is kinda sociological and I have to write a research paper on rationalism and last week I wrote one about Ancient Greek thinking, so we've never really dwelt into any of the topics, but I certainly think this one is interesting. I think I'm gonna compare/contrast Snow White w/ Mulan--show how Snow White for the time was completely in a stereotypic state, "someday my prince will come," she has to be rescued by the prince, the queen wants to be beautiful, snow white cleans, etc. and then first show how Mulan is very different, she saves the man, saves china, fights like man, takes her own destiny into her hands, etc. but then point out other aspects of the film that still show we have stereotypic thinking, how Mulan was the exception to the rule, how most of the woman were perfect skinny things who had arranged marriages, "A girl worth fighting for," she has to get love at the end, etc.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:57pm

I saw the Cabaret revival when I was 12...yeah. I think that's what's wrong with me.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:57pm

they must have! no 4 year old could even sit still long enough...none the less understand anything going on.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:58pm

yeah liotte - you probably will - but hey - if their folks are there (or have seen the show)- let them do the explaining!!

no - never been to NYC - long story... but i'm not really in a hurry to bring them..

i too remember seeing musicals before 10 - but i don't remember what they were!!! LOL!!

i was into the movie musicals early (and still am) like Singing in the Rain - one of my kids favs! and, of course, Wizard of Oz...

i was about 11? or so when i saw the one that "got" me forever... Bubbling Brown Sugar on tour...

i was hooked after that - i started buying cast albums and nothing else...

(never owned a Jackson 5 album in my life - i was SO uncool in jr. high...)

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:59pm

Isn't Julie working on...maybe a movie now? Something w/ Hugh Jackman? Or a new show...I know it's one of those...

[dmb_rent]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:59pm

Antonique also said she saw a 4 year old the other night in the first row. We figured they got lost on their way to The Lion King across the street or something.

that's just stupid, and annoying to hear that. a great seat wasted. sigh. it's the same thing when you're at the movies and see a mother with a baby...if you can't get a sitter, stay HOME. i always think, especially for the new movies, that it mustn't be good for the baby's ears anyway. ...and of course the screaming always starts a quarter way through the movie....sigh.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 8:59pm

And I mean, think of the poor actors onstage looking out at this *baby* in the first row, while they're humping each other singing about leather and dildos!

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:00pm

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[aspiringactress]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:00pm

I seriously would give an arm and a leg to see the OBC preform the show...I idolize the whole cast. Especially Fredi and Anthony...IMO best voices and acting. Arg, why, WHY did I have to be born so late!

[WickedRentLuv]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:02pm

Agreed.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:02pm

I had never been to NYC until I was 16.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:03pm

iheart.. i live in the um.. "tri-state area"

dmb_ i did my last LK in Cincinnati in April '03

[ihearttheatre]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:03pm

I feel the same way, aspiringactress, though I recently discovered an OBC Rent Playbill my dad had saved from when my parents saw it way back when.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:03pm

I went to the movies in NYC (I think it was Finding Neverland, so PG-13) and it was an 8:00 pm showing. A couple brought their infant in carriage, baby started to cry. People started shouting to take the kid out. The father stood up and punched someone, and a fight broke out. Someone went running out to get security, no one was around. It turned into a huge mess and we ended up all getting refunds and passes to come back for free, but they almost didn't want to give us them to begin with! It was crazy...

[ElphabaRose]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:03pm

dmb_rent, that happened to me when I saw Harry Potter. It was AWFUL. There was a woman with 4 kids, they couldn't find 4 seats next to each other, so two were behind her and the other one (the baby was on her lap). It started screaming abotu 6 times durring the movie and the other ones were talking the entire time. I don't get why people do that. It was a miserable experience.

[liotte]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:04pm

I am older than most of you in this thread I think (Fredi aside), I saw the OBC 8 or 9 times and it forever changed my life. I did the overnight on the sidewalk thing before there was a lotto, so original renthead here! I hope that parents really think about what they are taking their children to see.

[JoAnne1]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:04pm

my first trip to NYC was at the tender age of 8 - heavily guarded by my folks, natch...

no theatre at that time - just one of our summer road trips (that one was Canada, Detroit and NYC... i'll never forget it..)

[aspiringactress]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:05pm

And I mean, think of the poor actors onstage looking out at this *baby* in the first row, while they're humping each other singing about leather and dildos!

That would scar anyone for life! I can so imagine La Vie Boheme (THE PG VERSION) -- featuring child oriented references...ah, that would be AWFUL!

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

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[wickedrentq]

Posted: 12/6/05 at 9:07pm

Haha Orange! Worse is when they take kids to shows they will be scared of. I saw Little shop w/ a 4, 5-year old next to me, from the start she kept saying is this scary, etc? The mom was like no no sweetie it's funny etc. She was pretty nervous and upset most of the show but she screamed and cried when the plant ate Orin. They had to leave during intermission. Thank god, she would have had nightmares the way the plant ate Mushnik. Stupid parents.

Oh, well I remember lots of stuff of the shows I saw before I was 7...certainly remember Lola in Damn Yankees, and the bet, and the basic story, and Heart and Shoeless Joe and Whatever Lola Wants, I remember sitting near the front in the mezz in itchy tights b/c my mom used to make me dress up...I remember the dance in King and I and how the main characters went to the boxes to watch, and shall we dance and bawling when he died as I did during the movie, and Sound of Music I remember we were the audience for the festival and I loved the woman who bowed too much, and Brigita seemed very talented and to have a bigger part than the rest of the kids or what she did in the movie.

Guess I was just a mature 7-10 year-old :-P