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To clarify the "RENT RP" thing...

It's more like collaborative writing than anything else. You create a character or you take one from the musical and you write from their point of you... with a bunch of other people who write as a character of their choice. It IS fun, if everyone stays reasonably in-character and has some sort of writing ability.

But not when people use gratuitous amounts of libretto.

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Are you someone, or did you create your own?

And..using the libretto wouldn't be fun...

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I'm Roger.

And Emcee... Yes. And his book is awesome. XD

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Updated On: 11/30/05 at 04:19 PM

I make a post and am sent just back to the main board...and you can make your signatures (those cool things we have) by going to the stuff on you left side of the screen and clicking on your settings under site.

An d Lari, which site do you do that on?

I just had to add to this thread, reading the thoughts here about 'without you' and what it makes you feel about Johnathan's death has made me start to cry. I havn't been a rent fan for long (about two years) but I've never been able to make it through the Rent bible (no it hasnt been sitting there two years I got it this summer) because I always start to cry and I mean *really* I felt a similar thing in tick tick boom this summer (london) I literally wanted to jump up grab johnathan and tell him 'you did it you really did'

I know in my case it's too much overpersonalizing-(i don't think that's a word but anyway) of someone who is such an inspiration to me combind with finding Rent during a really emotional period in my life. I just think it's so incredible also that someone can touch so many of us so deeply, in that way at least he achieved what he wanted.

That's just my ramblings on the subject, in my defence it's lateish here, it's been a long day.

Em

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You know what I want to see?

Prequel

Sequel

--- I think it would be very interesting to see what was going on in the lives of all the Rent characters before the play, how they got there, how they met.....and then see the what could only be extremely devastating sequel, after Roger, Mimi, Collins dies...(this used to constantly make me sad knowing that those characters would in that world one day become sick like Angel)...and how Mark would live on after their deaths. Wow, talk about depressing.

Of course, I'm only being like 25% serious. I just want to know all that for my own peace of mind. Both the backstory and years down the road seem *very* interesting, though.

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Updated On: 11/30/05 at 04:32 PM

I'm very disappointed in myself for never having checked out TTB. It's not still on Broadway, is it? How long did it last? ....The farthest I ever got into it was knowing that it was Jonathan's "other story" -- He wrote it? When? And it is autobiographical in a way? This, more than anything, I feel dumb for not knowing about. I should have seen it. That man was the work of art.

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In ran off-Broadway like... three/four years ago. There's a pretty high-profile production on the West Coast now, but nothing here.

He originally wrote and performed it as a one-man show. Several versions were combined after he died, and it was turned into a three-person show about his life. Get the CD. It's brilliant.

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I was going to try to make a dirty joke, but let's face it. I don't make good jokes.

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Rumblings have begun of a reunion benefit concert....

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of TTB?!

oh wow, I would really love to go..but if it's a benefit show, I really don't have the money for that.