What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
#1What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:24pm
Please don't get mad or go crazy, this is just a question. I have never been to a final performance and some people are saying that it is a "formal" occasion and should be dressed up for, and others think it is just another show and doesn't need fancy cocktail dresses or anything of the sort. Any idea what would be appropriate for Sunday?
Thanks in advance for not taking this as "just another rent thread" and bashing me over the head. 
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:25pmJeans and a shirt?
galadriel_freak
Swing Joined: 10/18/07
#2re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:27pmi'm going with the equivalent of chucks and a suit... (I'm a dork) haha... I do do 'formal'...
#3re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:28pmwhat would you normally wear to the theatre?
#4re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:28pm
That was what I figured.. just nice jeans and a nice top (which is what I normally wear, or a cute skirt) but my sister wants to really dress up and I don't want to look stupid next to her haha The Nederlander just said it isn't black tie but you can dress up. Not really helpful lol.
#5re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:35pm
Nude. Nothing says "Renthead" like "didn't bother putting any clothes on".
Nah, seriously, I'd... dress a step up from how you usually dress for the theatre. Instead of jeans, decent slacks. Instead of a t-shirt, a button-down shirt. I was about to say "instead of Chucks, shoes", but I think Chucks would be fine. It's 'Rent', not 'La Boheme'. 
No point dressing up too fancy, but a little more effort to show you recognise it's an event wouldn't go amiss. :)
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:36pmDress in the same manner as your sister. haha
#7re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:42pm
The best kind of clothes for a protest pose
Is this ensemble of pantyhose
Pulled over the shorts, worn under the skirt
That doubles as a cape.
To reveal you in capri pants
You fashion out of ski pants,
In a jersey knit designed to fit
The contour of your shape.
Then cinch it with a cord from the drape.
And that's the revolutionary costume for today.
To show the polo riders, in khakis and topsiders,
Just what a revolutionary costume has to say.
It can't be ordered from L.L. Bean.
There's more to living than kelly green.
And that's the revolution, I mean.
Da da da da dum...
(Speaking)
Just listen to this: The Hamptons Bee, July, 1972:
"The elderly bed-ridden aunt of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy,
Mrs. Edith Bouvier Beale..."
My very own mother, can you imagine?
"...and her adult daughter, Miss Edie Beale,
a former debutante once known as Body Beautiful Beale..."
They called me Body Beautiul Beale, it's true -
that was my whaddyacallit, my uh ... sobriquet.
"...are living on Long Island in a garbage-ridden, filthy 28-room house with 52 cats,
fleas, cobwebs, and virtually no plumbing.
After vociferous complaints from neighbors,
the Board of Health took legal action against the reclusive pair."
Why, it's the most disgusting, atrocious thing ever to happen in America!
(Singing)
You fight City Hall with a Persian shawl
That used to hang on the bedroom wall,
Pinned under the chin, adorned with a pin
And pulled into a twist.
Reinvent the objet trouve,
Make a poncho from a duvet,
Then you can be with cousin Lee
On Mr. Blackwell's list.
The full-length velvet glove hides the fist.
And that's the revolutionary costume for today.
Subvert the CrisCraft boaters, those Nixon-Agnew voters.
Armies of conformity are headed right your way.
To make a statement you need not be
In Boston Harbor upending tea.
And that's a Revolution, to me.
Staunch!
There's nothin' worse, I tell ya,
Staunch!
S-T-A-U-N-C-H.
Staunch women, we just don't weaken.
A little known fact to the fascist pack
Who comes here for antiquin'.
Da da da da dum...
(Speaking)
Honestly, they can get you in East Hampton for wearing red shoes on a Thursday –
and all that sort of thing.
I don't know whether you know that – I mean, do you know that?
They can get you for almost anything – it's a mean, nasty, Republican town.
(Singing)
The best kind of shoes to express bold views
Are strapless mules in assertive hues
Like fuscia or peach, except on the beach,
In which case you wear flats.
When I stood before the nation
At Jack's inauguration,
In a high-heeled pump, I got the jump
on Jackie's pillbox hat.
Just watch it where you step with the cat!
And that's the revolutionary costume pour du jour.
You mix 'n' match and, Presto!
A fashion manifesto.
That's why a revolutionary costume's de rigeur.
The rhododendrons are hiding spies,
The **** willows have beady eyes.
Binoculars through the privet hedge,
They peek at you through the window ledge with guile!
We're in a Revolution!
So win the Revolution with style!
Da da da da dum.
#8re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:43pm
lol she is wearing a dress she wore to our cousin's barmitzvah.. wayyy to fancy if you ask me. I am going for the slacks and a nice shirt. Thanks for all the help 
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#9re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:46pm
Wear black, your fall black instead of your summer black which ought to have been put away on Tuesday, and pearls.
Next question?
galadriel_freak
Swing Joined: 10/18/07
#10re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:48pm
"I was about to say "instead of Chucks, shoes", but I think Chucks would be fine. It's 'Rent', not 'La Boheme'. "
Chucks can be very dressy! haha. I do wear them with my suit to work often. I'm wearing my clean ones sunday night at least. ha.
#11re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:54pmClothes
#12re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:56pmI'm just wearing nice shorts and a polo.
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#13re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 2:58pmBe comfortable but don't look like you just crawled out of bed. I went to a last show before(Les Mis revival) and I wore dress pants and a nice button down shirt but that's what I usually wear to the theatre anyway.
coolkid11776
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/23/06
#14re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 5:35pm
I have the same question.
I got tickets
So now I will Stop bugging all of you
#15re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 5:37pmHow did you get tickets?
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#16re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 6:20pmCoolkid, if you did indeed get tickets (which I have a feeling you didn't) and you want to show your real love for RENT, I'd say you should dress up as one of the characters.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#17re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 7:03pmdress up in those hideous jean overalls that Adam Pascal loved to wear
broadwayfan310
Chorus Member Joined: 8/22/08
#18re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 7:14pmLook nice and be comfortable!
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
typecastme22
Stand-by Joined: 8/29/06
#20re: What is appropriate attire for the final RENT show?
Posted: 9/5/08 at 7:51pm
I have tickets for it and was told by the general manager of the show that the dress code was "rentish." I am interpreting that as a nice pair of jeans, a button down shirt, and a jacket (think blazerish) and shoes.
Or slacks and a button down shirt. But I will probably go with the first.
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