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#26

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:23am

THIRTEEN ORDERS OF FRIES!

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

#27

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:25am

Anyone notice that SPAM guy looks a lot like Marc Kudisch?

(Or is it him? Forgive my ignorance.)

#28

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:33am

Where can I get some really good Huevos Ranchers in Manhattan? Private me.

#29

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:35am

At the Life Cafe!

Seriously, it's on the breakfast menu there. :)

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

#30

The producers of Rent were staying in New York. After the matinee, they went back to their hotel room to rest. The maid was cleaning the room. She asked them "What sort of things do you produce?" and they said "We produced Rent." She swore at them in Spanish and told them "Why do you produce a musical about junkies and bums? You could produce a musical about nurses or teachers. Even a musical about a policeman would make money!"

So he went back to the theater and announced a closing date immediately. Those hotel maids sure are powerful.

#31

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:44am

Because the producers hate you.

#32

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 10:54am

all of the above.

#33

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:00am

If I were to post a picture of a dildo to celebrate Rent, would this thread get deleted?

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#34

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:01am

I always thought the Spam guy looked more like Adam Buxton, but only when you're scrolling past him. If you stop to look properly, he doesn't after all.

Notes from the Earlham Street Gutter

#35

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 1:07pm

Joe, you crack me up!

#36

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 1:10pm

Rent has had a healthy run on broadway what has it been 12 years, it's just getting to old
but who know it could return in 3 years like le miz did but I hope not. Out with the old and in with the new.

Updated On: 6/26/08 at 01:10 PM

#37

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 2:21pm

I think it's closing so they can open "Rent 2: Everyone Is Dead".

"I think of avant-garde as downtown shows where you rub waffles and chocolate on yourself."- Hunter Bell

#38

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 2:23pm

It's selling well because it is closing, so everyone is scrambling to buy tickets. Before it announced a closing, it wasn't doing too great.

It had a long, healthy run.

"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611

#39

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 4:23pm

So that EMMA ZAKS's productions of RENT can be legal.

#40

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 7:34pm

Uta!

#41

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 9:17pm

To BUDA!

Hunter: Your teeth need whitening./ Heidi: You sound weird./ Jeff: You taste funny.
-Jeff Bowen's worst onstage line flub.

#42

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/26/08 at 11:36pm

Because Emma Zaks isn't in it!

#43

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/27/08 at 12:06am

Sorry to burst the original poster's bubble, but AIDS is not a hot topic. Still exists, unfortunately, but it isn't a hot topic anymore. It wasn't really a hot topic in 1996 either. In the 80s and very early 90s ('90-'94), it was an extremely hot topic, but by '96, there was other stuff going on in the world. In fact, Rent was dated before it even opened. You might say it opened about five years too late.
It's one of those shows, like A Chorus Line, that opened after a bad season, that had fresh, young people in it and that people touted as "Revolutionary." Nope. Not a chance.
And don't criticize this as being homophobic or ignorant. AIDS is a god awful thing we need to find a cure for, but by 1996, it wasn't THE hot button issue. And the way it's portrayed in Rent...that's REALLY dated.

#44

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/27/08 at 1:30am

Maya Angelou

Burn the witch
The witch is dead
Burn the witch
Just bring me back her head

#45

re: Why is 'Rent' closing?

Posted: 6/27/08 at 1:38am

Pablo Neruda.

wait, musicaltheatrefan3, RENT'S CLOSING?!?!?! WHEN?!?? I HEARD IDINA GONNA BE THERE?? OMG SHE'S THE BEST PERSON EVER SHE NEEDS TO BE THERE!!!

:)

Updated On: 6/27/08 at 01:38 AM

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