WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
#0WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 7:27pmCan somebody please educate me ...what is 'Bohemia'??..i've never seen the play rent!!but i do own the CD ..and i've read a million scripts for the prodution...and i still don't know what Bohemia is or what a Bohemian is..well...someone PLEASE ANWSER MY CRY FOR HELP!!I MUST UNDERSTAND IT ALL!!
etoile
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/2/03
#1re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 7:31pmYou know, when I have a question about a word I go to webster.com.
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#2re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 7:33pmhttp://www.bohemiabooks.com.au/eblinks/spirboho/
"If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having."
Henry Miller
#3re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 7:40pm
I suggest you look it up on Wikipedia.com or something, but have you seen MOULIN ROUGE?
Bohemia is actually a historical region in central Europe; it used to be its own country, but is now part of the Czech Republic (if you've read Shakespeare's THE WINTER'S TALE, you'll remember that the character Polixenes is King of Bohemia -- Shakespeare has Perdita abandoned by the shores of Bohemia, which is funny because Bohemia was a landlocked country).
However, in 19th-century France the term "Bohemia" and "Bohemians" became used to refer to the type of poor, non-traditional artists and social outcasts (usually the ones who drank absinthe and talked about love and liberty). The term was coined from the common belief that the gypsies were originally from Bohemia.
So generally, "Bohemian" refers to unconventional "struggling" artists while "Bohemia" refers to their lifestyle and culture. When Benny says, "Bohemia is dead," he is saying that the idea of the romanticized, misunderstood artist living in poverty and creating art is a dead one.
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Updated On: 12/30/04 at 07:40 PM
Chloe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/04
#4re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 8:23pmBravo, BlueWizard! Excellent definition.
#5re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 8:45pmWell said BlueWizard...and i thank you for all your help!
camerangel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/04
#6re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:43pm**applaudes BlueWizard**
"All work and no smut makes Cammy lose her edge." ~DG
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
"Someday I'm going to have a baby and I'm gonna name her L'il Mimi Marquez and I and will sing to her every day and when she's a toddler I will say "L'il Mimi Marquez, clad only in a bubble diaper, will perform her famous play pen handcuff dance to the sounds of breast milk being pumped!" ~Kringas
#7re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/30/04 at 9:51pmAlways at your service, thank you. *bows*
BlueWizard's blog: The Rambling Corner
HEDWIG: "The road is my home. In reflecting upon the people whom I have come upon in my travels, I cannot help but think of the people who have come upon me."
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#8re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/31/04 at 2:45pmThere's a place on Long Island named Bohemia.
#9re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/31/04 at 2:49pmreally? Nassau or suffolk county?
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
BJC899
Broadway Star Joined: 7/20/04
#10re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/31/04 at 3:31pmI believe suffolk and over the summer they had some sort of Rent workshop at this theatre in Bohemia.
defy_gravity
Stand-by Joined: 9/12/04
#11re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/31/04 at 3:57pmlol... that is amusing.
We can't all come and go by bubble...
#12re: WHAT IS 'BOHEMIA' <--FROM RENT?!
Posted: 12/31/04 at 4:22pmAlso, let's remember that Rent is a modern updating of Puccini's opera La Boheme which translates as Bohemia or The Bohemian Life - La Vie Boheme!
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
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