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I've been reading this for a very long time so I figured it was time to join in...

First, thank you for keeping us all updated, it keeps us from going crazy... and i lost my train of thought.

But yeah, I love being able to read about what's going on from someone who is actually there. Plus, updates are just exciting anyway...

So thanks again and I hope things keep going well and the updates keep coming (I love them so much).

You are amazing! Thanks!

ps. I am being peer pressured into asking you to ask Idina to update her site for her fans. Because we're dying. And it saddens us. Thank you for your time. I would say more but it's kind of embarrassing. Goodnight.

pps. I just embarrassed myself but whatever. All those Idina fans out there need to praise me.

Anthony, the scarf is in, the plaid is out, but what about the blue plastic pants and the Xmas dress?
As always, thank you

TURN ON RENT?! ARE YOU CRAZY WITH THE HEAT/COLD?!

Rent has been part of the world for almost 10 years. It has a message, it is important. No one can turn on it, why would they?

Well, my sister used to kinda like it...then when I got heavily into it, she stopped liking it even the tiniest bit. So it IS possible to turn on it.



Stupid, but possible.

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I see your point TGIF, though I think some of the multiple thread stuff happened because several newbies came on at once looking for those pictures and each starting a thread. I think that in a few weeks, every Renthead in the world will be on BWW, so we won't have that problem any more.

Anthony, I don't post here often since this thread is already so long, but read your posts religiously. Thanks very much.

Thank you to the people who have PMed/AIMed/posted to me to inform me of Anthony's response to my melodrama.

I wrote him, but I figure I ought to say something to the general public. I'll get over it. Probably. The pants are very representative of Roger in my mind and I love them. I'm just afraid this movie will be messed up somehow, it's so easy to do, but I'll just have to have hold my breath and hope.

Wow. Great update, Anthony! Rent's the MAIN movie I'm looking forward to this year ("Hitchhiker's..." can hold me over until November )I DO like the fact that everyone can get a costume change. Plus, from what I've seen from the set pics, everyone looks great!

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About the sudden multitude of RENT threads...we think there's alot of them now but just wait til it gets closer to the movie release date. :-P The apocolypse of RENTheads everywhere is upon us my friends! And I couldn't be happier about it! The more the merrier, I say. Its true, if anything all these threads are getting more people (like me) more and more excited about the movie.

I know what you mean Insomniak, there will always be trepaditions and concerns about how the movie will turn out. Most of us here have all fallen in love with the show over the years and it would probably kill more then one of us if, for whatever reason, the movie turned out badly. I mean its always a risk turing musicals into movies because you have to find a way to take a production that was written for the stage and put it on the screen in an artistic, appealing way without making it look cheesy. I for one, have very high hopes for RENT from what has been said so far on the making of it and I think it's going to work out really well but again, we won't really be able to know til the day it comes out in theatres.

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Haha race. :-P Yeah I finally found a good pic. I found another really good one but it wouldn't upload for some reason...:-/

Unfortunately, I have this kind of sinking feeling that the people who will go see the RENT movie are only going to be people who already know the show and are semi interested in it. And that's not bad since thats a whole hell of alot of people but I voice this concern because I've asked a few friends who haven't heard of it before and they just kind of looked uninerested in a movie-musical and even more confused when I tried to explain its plot. I'm really hoping that the success of the movie isn't hindered by the fact that it isnt boasting A-list celebrities or tons of special effects because that would be a real shame.

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What are everyone else's predictions on how the public will react to the movie when it opens in November?

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Honestly I have not a clue, but it's not necessarily easy to predict that with any other film. My hope would be a positive reaction. What if people who haven't seen Rent before come out of this film with positive thoughts about it and actually think about it?

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Yes, I definitly agree with what you said Blue J. Also about the fact that I too live in CA and would love to be able to see the OBC in action. I think even if we didn't know it came from RENT at the time, we have all probably heard something from it since it is such a widely circulated show. For example, I practically grew up listening to Seasons of Love (I remember always getting confused at all the 525,600 minutes parts..:-P) but I never knew what it was from. Then I got the cast recording and was listening to it and just thought "Wow, so thats where it came from!"

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"Is there going to be a 'making of' documentary thing of the filming? Perhaps to be included on the DVD or such. Just hoping."
I read this a little while back and decided to respond without reading anymore because I would loose my thoughts if I did so forgive me if someone already suggested this.
If they were to do that wouldn't it be...I guess you could call it cute, I dunno, if It turned out that Anthony Rapp/you (if it's you reading this but...well I think it comes across what I'm trying to say here...blast typing!) were to film it, kind of like a tribute to Mark...eh, just a suggestion.

Something like

"The Making of RENT the Film"- a Mark Cohen Film...I dunno...ah well...

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Updated On: 3/14/05 at 12:32 AM