Work at the Nederlander — Page 4

Yes, the Rentheads are disgusting. The Nederlanders are working long and had to fully renovate and restore their namesake theatre to it's full and former glory and Rentheads with an attachment to a show that played in that building keep scrawling all over the walls. DEAL WITH IT. It's sad.. they seem to sneak up when the workers are away fro the night and scrawl all over the new work, so then they have to REDO what they have already done.

I will greatly miss Hairspray, but you won't find me trying to impede on work on the theatre after the show closes.

That made absolutely NO sense. You don't know what impact Hairspray could or could not have had on my life. I am not arguing that Rent didn't impact you. I not arguing that you don't love the show.

What I am stating is a FACT. Not at opinion. Rentheads are VANDALIZING the theatre. That is not an opinion. It is FACT. There are MANY ways to express your passion (your word) for something without vandalizing a building.

I took a few pictures of the Nederlander on Saturday while in town for Equus and In The Heights.

I've loved Rent for a long time. First saw it at NYTW and saw it all over North America many times over the years. I have several friends who have been in the show and it will always have a special place in my heart. I do not, however, understand these kids who thought/think that it was appropriate to deface the walls of the Nederlander. My guess is that most of these kids are new to theatre, and were probably introduced to Rent through the movie. I'm not saying that all such 'new' fans act like idiots and write on the theatre walls but I'm willing to bet that most of them who did it are these newer fans. They're obsessed with Adam and Anthony and they're the ones who created the chaos at stagedoor when A & A returned for their run in 2007. Many of them behaved like morons inside the theatre, too, during the show.

I don't care how much the show 'changed your life' or how important it is to you, or how much you love it and think that the castmembers are your BFFs. It's inappropriate to write on the theatre walls. Period.

I think it's disgusting that some people are continuing to write on the walls of the theater, even as it's being renovated and upgraded. Yes, the theater housed Rent for a good number of years and yes, many people have a special connection to the show and the message it proclaims. But that does not give anybody the right to vandalize or deface a Broadway theater, especially a theater that is no longer housing said show.

I wonder what some of these obsessed fans will do when Guys and Dolls settles into the Nederlander. Will they protest on opening night?

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People need to grow the F up. Seriously.

The theater's being redone for it's next tenant: Loretta Swit's one-woman show called SWIZZLE SWITS.

It promises to be amazing!

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** this was not written with any single person in mind**

Simply, it is vandalism to write on the building ; then, there is the whole taking pride in where you work/live/play by taking care of it idea.

However, what really gets me is how some of these people who claim that "Rent changed my life" have barely been on the planet long enough to have a life. They aren't old enough to say "Back in the day..." I assure you that your life will not end simply because Rent closed. There will be ,many events in your life that will change you. Look back at your happy memories, but for goodness sake....one day you will look back and (hopefully) laugh at your angst.
Anyone else out there remember camping out in front of the local ticketmaster outlet for concert tickets?? (seeing AC/DC, Aerosmith, The Who, Rolling Stones, etc definitely CHANGED my life, too. And, I laugh at it now)

are you guys like really serious? by the day the show closed did you not see how much writing there was on the wall? so ok writing on teh walls of the theater where it was OBVIOUSLY ok to write on the wall being that i wrote on the wall white nederlander employees were outside is bad? writing thank you jonathan larson...a tribute to the man who created RENT is bad and doesnt make me a renthead? seriously? get a life lmao that makes no sense and your all trying to sound cool like oh yea respect the theater! please man writing is so bad! you guys are pathetic i dotn know why i post on this message board anymore lol

i didn't write on the theater after the show closed and they renovated it i just said that to piss the dude off that i was talking to lol but hey...it worked! lmao you guys are seriously nuts and need to open up your tiny little minds lol

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your disgusting

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...writing on one is like scribbling your name on the Constitution because you are fan of what it did.

I just got a mental image of that and it made me laugh out loud.

Thanks.
=)

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withoutyou08, your making it sound like that just because other people did it before you then it was okay to do. That isn't the case. It was wrong to do form the get go and if your smart you would have realized that. What bothered me the most about the writing outside the theatre is that there was a period of time where the Nederlanders paid to have it repainted and to have the writing over the pictures of the actors scrubbed off. Yet, people didn't take a hint and still re wrote over it yet again.

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