Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl

[Rob]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#1

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:02pm

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[BwayTday]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#2

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:03pm

OMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!

...But really, I don't hate this choice that much. As long as she can sing the score and all.

EDIT: I just looked up her singing live, so never mind.

Updated On: 4/9/10 at 01:03 PM

[ABoyLikeThat]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#2

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:03pm

It's not April 1st, is it?

[adamgreer]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#3

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:05pm

How long before Zac Efron is announced as Roger?

[Annas_Priest]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#4

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:05pm

Well.. I want to be sick

[luvtheEmcee]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#5

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:08pm

Why are they even bothering if this is the kind of thing they're going to do?

A work of art is an invitation to love.

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#6

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:09pm

And now **** hits the fan.

[Devious]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#7

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:11pm

This is sickening.

[broadwayjim42]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#8

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:12pm

Based on "High School Musical" and her CD's (or what I've heard of them), I don't think she's vocally up to it. Her voice is too light and wispy.

I thought it was an April Fools Joke too...

[orangeskittles]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#9

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:15pm

Based on "High School Musical" and her CD's (or what I've heard of them), I don't think she's vocally up to it. Her voice is too light and wispy.

Er, have you heard Daphne Rubin-Vega?


I'll wait to hear the rest of the cast before passing judgment. She could just be the token stunt cast the Hollywood Bowl seems to require every year. (Jessica Biel anyone?)

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[into_the_woods2]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#10

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:20pm

F my life...

i couldn't think of someone WORSE. sorry to be negative, but it's the truth. i think she's atrocious. horrible idea.

"The good news is I have an excellent Tony speech. The bad news is I've had it for forty-five years."-Elaine Stritch

[orangeskittles]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#11

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:21pm

It could be worse. It could be Vanessa Hudgens, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

[jacobsnchz14]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#11

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:21pm

Neil Patrick Harris' thoughts on casting Vanessa Hudgens

[muscle23ftl]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#13

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:27pm

Honestly, I don't know much about this girl, but based on this live concert in Chile, I think she looks fabulous and sounds ok for the part.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zePvy2Grci8

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

Updated On: 4/9/10 at 01:27 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#13

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:27pm

I thought Jessica Biel was a good singer by the way...

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

Updated On: 4/9/10 at 01:27 PM

[muscle23ftl]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#14

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:27pm

I don't think it can get much worse than Rosario Dawson and Mel B to be honest...lol

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

Updated On: 4/9/10 at 01:27 PM

[LizzieCurry]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#15

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:32pm

Wow, the amount of pearl-clutching in this thread is amazing.

Besides, it's not like she'll be doing it 8 times a week.

"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt

[taylorPHENOMENON2]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#16

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:37pm

It could be worse. It could be Vanessa Hudgens, Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp.

After seeing the "final tour", I agree completely.

[ShbrtAlley44]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#17

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:42pm

HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

I'm surprised Disney's not having a sh*tfit that she's playing a "crackhead nymphomaniac prositute" (tm Forbidden Broadway).

[TheatreFan4]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#18

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:47pm

This cast to going to get interesting.

[songanddanceman2]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#19

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:48pm

"I don't think it can get much worse than Rosario Dawson and Mel B to be honest...lol"

Come off it, i know people like to bash the Rent movie but Rosario Dawson was a brilliant Mimi, hence her walking away with all the reviews

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#20

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:49pm

She walked away with the reviews?

[tazber]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#21

Posted: 4/9/10 at 1:53pm

Whatever. Really, why is this such a big deal? She may be excellent.

....but the world goes 'round

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#22

Posted: 4/9/10 at 2:11pm

Rosario Dawson brought a shred of decency to the awful movie, I thought, although she was autotuned to no end, still I don't blame her for that. And really, no one walked away with the RENT reviews, it was ripped to shreds and rightly so.
I don't get Vanessa Hudgens, I think she's a disastrous actress. Daphne Rubin-Vega may not have the best voice around but she sure knows how to act and how to sell a song. Oh well.

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

[songanddanceman2]

Vanessa Hudgens to Star as Mimi in RENT at the Hollywood Bowl#23

Posted: 4/9/10 at 2:11pm

"She walked away with the reviews? "

That's what i said, it would take you 2 mins to check on somewhere like Rotten Tomatoes

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna