rent innappropriate parts
rent innappropriate parts
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#0rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:26pmcan someone please tell me the most of the really bad parts in rent? my mom is somewhat prudish and we are seeing it for the first time on the 16 in philly, and i wanna prepare her. Also, is the tour cast any good?
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#1re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:29pm
There's is a sex scene in Act 2 called contact
That's the worst of it
The touring cast by all reviews I've read here is excellent
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Musetta1957
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/03
#3re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:31pm
There's a partial mooning.
If you're not sitting on extreme stage right, you should be fine.
#4re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:36pm
this cast is excellent!!!!! as far as warnings... lots of cursing. lots of hmmmm... 'humping' and kind of sexual stuff during "La Vie Boheme". "Contact" is just a big moving sheet with the cast moaning and stuff, not that bad, (watch for Danny Calvert humping the fence during "Contact" hotness!)... and the mooning, so brief nudity. Basically you're looking at:
adult themes
adult language
strong sexual content/innuendo
brief nudity
drugs &
brief violence
also there's an open flame on stage. I don't know why they feel the need to tell you that, but they do... (and the open flame is not Angel! stop it!)
Updated On: 12/4/04 at 11:36 PM
Type_A_Tiff
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/04
#5re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:37pm
The touring cast is *wonderful*.
As for "dirty" parts, yeah, what bs2b said. And someone moons part of the audience. And there's a bit of joking sexual innuendo, hip thrusting and the like. And swearing.
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#6re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:39pmI don't know if strong language would offend your mom, but the f-word is used in at least one song.
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#7re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:41pm
"the f-word is used in at least one song"
It is used in a lot more than that.
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#8re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:42pmI don't know exactly how prudish your mom is, but mine (being the good traditional Jewish mother stereotype that she is) was rather offended at frequent sexual references and strong language, especially in "Contact" and "La Vie Boheme".
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BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#9re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/3/04 at 11:43pmif you sit extreme stage left you'll see everything... the "humping wall" (the name me and my friends use, long story) during contact and maureen mooning benny in la vie boheme.
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#10re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:05am
Homosexual relationships.
Usages of s**t and f**k.
Partial nudity (ie mooning)
Suggested sex (Contact)
Innuendo
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#11re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:10amsince when are any of these things inappropriate, especially homosexual relatonships. Theatre is a form of art where ANYTHING is acceptable - there is nothing inappropriate.
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#12re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:12amI don't think it means inappropriate so much as "what my mom might be mad at me for making her go see."
David walked into the valley
With a stone clutched in his hand
He was only a boy
But he knew someone must take a stand
There will always be a valley
Always mountains one must scale
There will always be perilous waters
Which someone must sail
-Into the Fire
Scarlet Pimpernel
#13re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:14amwell, I too was thrown off a bit by homosexual relationships being included as inappropriate, shocking perhaps to a concervative audience, but not inappropriate. as far as everything else is concerned: sex, language, nudity... those are all things that would be labeled inappropriate and given an R rating if it were a movie, as it is soon to be... even though those things are not inappropriate to most of us... Updated On: 12/4/04 at 01:14 AM
FabalaCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 10/30/04
#14re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:14am
That's the list I gave to my mother when she considered taking my little sister with us. The second I showed her the lyrics to Contact, she muttered something about "speak with your father about this..."
Thank goodness she went back to her fairly open-minded senses and gave the extra ticket to the kid.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#16re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:39amgrownupgroupie, I was going to say that, too, to Beka. Lots of people seem to get that wrong! :)
#17re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 9:54amWell, I think your mother will be so affected she may forget the inappropriate parts. :) It's an amazing show.
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LilElphaba
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#18re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 10:02amLOL-im waiting for the movie-I'll be waitin for a while but i wanna see the original cast
I LOVE SHOSHANA BEAN.
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#19re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 10:07amThere are really no "bad" parts in Rent. If your mom is just a prude, the only nudity is a very brief glimpse of Maureen's butt. If however you mean that your mom is not quite open-minded or accepting, then you might have some problems. The gay relationships are a major part of the show but other than a few kisses, there's nothing overtly sexual about them. It's a beautiful story of friendship, love, and survival. Some people can't see that through the filters of their own intolerance, though. Not saying your mom is like that but a lot of people are. I've seen the show 40+ times and I don't think I've ever seen a show where some audience members did NOT leave at intermission. Sadly, they're the ones who needed to see Act II the most. It's their loss. Enjoy the show!
LilElphaba
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#20re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 10:10amIf i wanted to see act 2...could i just go and wait for someone to walk out and ask for their tickets???
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BEKA531
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#21re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 10:58ameh sorry about the stage/house mess, my brain was mush by 12 last night...
grownupgroupie
Broadway Star Joined: 10/15/04
#22re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 11:02am
we knew what you meant 
brain mush is mandatory by midnight.
Eponinez.Rain
Chorus Member Joined: 12/3/04
#23re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:21pm
Yeah, I think they meant "things that my mom may not approve of", not "what is innappropriate for the stage".
Anyway, yeah, what people have said- strong language, homosexuality (may be shocking to some people, some conservatives may be offended by it), drug regerences, lots of sexual references esp. in La Vie Boheme and Contact. If you have the soundtrack, you might wanna ease her into it by playing the clean songs (i.e. One Song Glory) and then gradually easing in the more "inappropriate" songs from least offensive to most offensive. That's what I did w/my parents. :P
This is probably not the place to ask, and I apologize- I wouldn't do this unless I was dying for an answer, lol. Has anyone seen the current Broadway cast? Are they decent (not decent as in appropriate decent, decent in terms of their acting)? 'Cause I saw the tour and they were fantabulous, but I'm seeing it on Broadway and I'm worried I'm not going to like it, lol...
But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.
Eponinez.Rain
Chorus Member Joined: 12/3/04
#24re: rent innappropriate parts
Posted: 12/4/04 at 1:22pmDouble post. My apologies.
But now we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then, when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.
Updated On: 12/4/04 at 01:22 PM
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