Miscellaneous Movie Musings

flippyshark · 05-03-2009, 05:49 PM

The cast of the closing RENT production can't hope to match their strongest predecessors, but they mostly worked their charms on me pretty well - and having such an up close record of the original staging and every single note and word of the show in one place is a joyful thing.

Yeah, the movie is still worth checking out for its cast of veterans, but, jeez, what a wet squib it is.

For what it's worth, I can think of at least half a dozen people, several of them family members, for whom RENT provided a lasting jolt of consciousness-raising that changed them to this very day.

05-03-2009, 05:49 PM	#11
flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	The cast of the closing RENT production can't hope to match their strongest predecessors, but they mostly worked their charms on me pretty well - and having such an up close record of the original staging and every single note and word of the show in one place is a joyful thing. Yeah, the movie is still worth checking out for its cast of veterans, but, jeez, what a wet squib it is. For what it's worth, I can think of at least half a dozen people, several of them family members, for whom RENT provided a lasting jolt of consciousness-raising that changed them to this very day.
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