lets vote rent or brooklyn..i vote rent

vote

What are we voting?

Which show sucks more? Which one is better?

Which one has most of the board actually seen by now?

Rent, BUT....

Updated On: 9/5/04 at 07:39 PM

BROOKLYN!!!

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I saw them both (Brooklyn in Denver). I like them both. But I think Rent edges out Brooklyn for me. But I will see Brooklyn in NYC.

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Yeah, since I'm almost positive that only one person in this thread actually SAW Brooklyn.

(nice to hear what you do have to say, uncageg)

If people have not seen Brooklyn how the heck do they know?

The same people that wrote Taboo wrote Brooklyn

well yes its outdated cause so many other musicals have been better that came after RENT such as

Avenue Q
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Aida
Hairspray
BARE
and now .............BROOKLYN
(not in order of when it came out)

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And why are these automatically better because they're newer? All of those shows are unique and not Rent.

w.e u people wanna think im just saying everyweek check the broadway grosses either on playbill and broadway.com and RENT will be in the Underdog section yes its a good show and all but with the original cast not the new one and broadway doesent have the original if the original cast were to come back rent would make millions but the original is not there so its only good with them and i bet they will tell you the same thing..................................ITS OLD GET OVER IT you cant stick with one show see what else is out there even the classics ANYTHING GOES stuff like that get away from rent open up

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Updated On: 9/5/04 at 08:09 PM

um why vote between these 2 shows? Why do people automatically "think" they are the same show? They are totally different... RENT is a rock opera about artists who are struggling in modern day society with their sexuality,illnesses and paying the bills. Brooklyn is about a guy named Taylor Collins (OMG! COLLINS!! AHH SAME CHARACTER NAME!! ALERT THE MEDIA!!) who goes to paris in 1969 and meets a beautiful parisian waitress whom wishes to become a dancer..they fall in love... she gets pregnant and he never knows because he is called off to fight... she gives birth to a baby girl and names her Brooklyn after his home town...he gets castrated in war and cant give her a family so he doesnt return to paris because he is so hurt by the fact he made a promise that he cant keep..Faith (the waitress) becomes a dancer and when brooklyn is 5 on christmas night she is so upset by not having taylor around that she takes her own life. Brooklyn gets sent to a place (i think it's called Sister Of Charity) and she grows up there to become a famous singer finishing the unfinished lullaby sung to her by her mother (which she learned from taylor)..brooklyn then comes to NY to find her father and in that time meets the diva Paradise who is like our modern day Missy Elliot..they have a sing off at MSG and in that time brooklyn intends to find her dad..she finds her dad and wishes to sing the unfinished lullaby on stage but Paradise tells him not to come because hes a homeless loser ...eventually, Brooklyn reunites with dad..it's a wonderful story and NOTHING LIKE RENT...

Updated On: 9/5/04 at 08:10 PM

if you know so much about Brooklyn enlighten me to who wrote it and where did they come from?