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Saturday, January 21, 2006

RENT Rant

Just saw RENT the movie.

"it was poignant with a narrative that spoke to today's youth"

I remember queueing up to get RENT tickets back in Melbourne. I mean it is a musical about people not being able to pay rent so they had cheap front row tickets for people who can't afford to otherwise watch a musical. Thrice I queued. Thrice in the cold. Four hours wait with other RENT heads, exchanging milk-bottle gummies for nachos and reserving a place in the line whilst the Mimi-wannabe went to the toilet. I got those tickets. I was so close I could see the spittle from Mark and Roger.

I wouldn't call myself a RENT head but having seen it three times in Melbourne and twice in Singapore I'd say that I'm a big fan. Though I wouldn't go so far as to dress up as the characters. ~chuckles~ There's another production of RENT circulating with Karen Mok as Mimi. I wanna see it. I've got to see it.

In the movie, it was all there, Maureen and Joanne's powerful duet. Angel and Collins' "I'll cover you". I felt that some of the best stuff was picked out so as to appeal to non RENT fanatics. Which was a shame because I'd love to have seen it all.

It was great all the same.

It was RENT

and now I can watch it over and over again.

And now I can remember the words more clearly...

There's only us, there's only this
Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss
No other course, no other way
No day but today!
- Jonathan Larson

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To faggots
Lezzies
Dykes
Crossdressers TOO!
To ME!
To You, you, you, you and you!
To people
living with
living with
living with

NOT DYIN FROM DESEASES!
Let He Amongst Us Without Sin
Be The FiRST TO CONDEMN!!!
LA VIE BOHEME!

Anonymous said...

Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes...

Gosh, u and george literally dragged me to the show. I thank you guys for that, lol.

p.s. Were you late for the show cos u just came back or something? I forgot ;)