Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?- Page 2
Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#25re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 8:48pm
This one's hard.
I loved them all but I think it would have to be Wilson Jermaine Heredia.
His performance had me in tears every single time I saw this show and I'm going to undoubtedly be reduced to tears when I see his performance captured for all posterity on the silver screen.
#26re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 8:50pmAdam Pascal and Idina Menzel...of course
IdreamofRENT
Understudy Joined: 3/26/05
#28re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:17pmOn the OBC CD, Anthony Rapp (never saw it live, so can't judge that). However, on the cast album, they really are all fantastic. *lurves them all*
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BobbyRobbyBobbyBaby
Stand-by Joined: 4/15/05
#29re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:26pmADAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something is stirring,
Shifting ground...
It's just begun.
Edges are blurring
All around,
And yesterday is done.
BobbyRobbyBobbyBaby
Stand-by Joined: 4/15/05
#30re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:27pmOkay, I just scared myself...
Something is stirring,
Shifting ground...
It's just begun.
Edges are blurring
All around,
And yesterday is done.
#32re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:34pmA tie between Idina Menzel and Anthony Rapp. I've never seen the show, so i can't base it on live performances, only from the OCR.
" I don't cause commotions, I am one."
#33re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:34pmNo contest for me: Jesse L. Martin! I acted with him in a couple of shows when we went to school at the Buffalo Academy for Visual & Performing Arts in the 80s. Everyone knew he would go far. Thank goodness we were right!
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
#34re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 9:54pm
Anthony..no question about it
currently it's Anthony and Adam though.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#35re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:27pmIdina Menzel.
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#36re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:29pm
That is a extremely hard question...
Probably Anthony Rapp.
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IDINA MENZEL
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predictable from a mile away!
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#37re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:42pmI think It's Idina and Taye...I often have dreams about a 3-way with them.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
AngelofAvenueB
Understudy Joined: 3/1/05
#38re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 10:48pm
never saw the OBC, but from the recording and various things i've seen/heard about them...
i think my favorites would have to be jesse, wilson and anthony tied. jesse because his voice is amazing and he's just great, wilson for the same reason (oh and for working those heels so well), and anthony because he is the epitome of the rent spirit.
plus, he's a sweetie. :)
forget regret...
#39re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 6/29/05 at 11:18pm
Adam and Idina. Idina and Adam. I love them both oh so much.<3
heart.
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Evita
Swing Joined: 11/1/04
#40re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 2:27amDaphne Rubin-Vega. She's awesome.
Currently: FASTRADA in Pippin
Dream Role: Mimi in RENT
"No day but today."
"PATTI: Would you mind if I sang?
JACK: Shut up, Patti LuPone! Shut your brassy, magnificent trap! I don't wanna hear you sing. I don't wanna cut your hair. And I certainly don't wanna hear you singing while I'm cutting your hair! Got it?! Now I'm talking to my best friend, so stand back, Buenos Aires!"- from Will & Grace
#41re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 2:33am
I may get yelled at, but I guess Idina......
Though if I had to pick between Mark/Anthony and Adam/Roger, I'd easily go with the Mark/Anthony Combo!!!!!!
I'm also kinda fond of Freddi and Daphne, but I'll vote for Idina.
#42re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 2:47amMy vote goes to Anthony with Jesse a close second.
#43re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 2:52am
Aghhh so hard to choose.
I'd really probably have to say Anthony Rapp with Daphne in second place and so on and so forth. But its all pretty close in the end, I love them all. :-P
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#44re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 3:19amAs I never saw it with the OBC, I can't really say, but based off the Orginal Cast Album, I'll go with Anthony Rapp being my favorite.
"Every exit is just an entrance to somewhere else."
kas
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/05
#45re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 6:35amadam and wilson/ and i saw them too :) i'm old. (just kidding!) i thought jesse and wilson had such great chemistry too.
#46re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 8:16amAdam and Anthony! They are amazing!
grizzabella
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/05
#47re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:31amI'm with Castalbum! Jesse L. Martin for me, too.
"And the postman sighed as he scratched his head, you really rather thought she ought to be dead..."
#48re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:35am
In order
For guys:
Jesse
Wilson
Anthony
Adam
For girls:
Idina
Fredi
Daphne
#49re: Who is your favorite orginal cast member of RENT?
Posted: 7/1/05 at 11:41amAnthony Rapp as Mark.
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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