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***ReNT!***?

i LOVE the movie. mi old friend made me watch the movie and i loved it, then i made mi best friend watch it and she is obsessed! We are seeing the musical August 11 because Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal are in it! I cant wait! Is the musical good? i heard it was AMAZING!


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The stage musical is a lot better in my opinion, but in this case, it's all a matter of personal tastes. The stage musical is a lot rougher around the edges. It basically doesn't care about distances and things like that. If you've ever seen Our Town, the stage is basically set like that. The there isn't much on the stage other than some graffitied walls, a staircase, a table with metal folding chairs, a balcony and a metal archway on one side. It's more frenetic and fast moving. Take the song Rent for example, the entire cast is basically going mad all around the stage. Also, the apartment is basically the middle of the stage for a lot of the play, but the balcony can be the Aids meeting and at one point, during Another Day, everyone on the balcony turns over to Roger in his apartment and sings to him there. The stage musical also has every single song. They had to take out some of the best songs or make them worse to fit the movie. They took out Christmas Bells and Contact and completely changed Without You into a background music and took out half of Goodbye Love.
The stage musical is kind of irreverent to musicals. It the anti-musical in a way. It came out when things like Cats, Phatom and Les Mis were popular and had these elaborate sets and costumes. RENT is the exact opposite of it. There is no real set, not regard for staging, the costumes were origanally parts of the casts real wardrobe (the costumes are a bit of a weakness of the play I'll admit though. I giggle everythime I see Roger's metallic silver vest/shirt thing and Mimi's leopard print leggings). It talked about things that the people who went to Broadway plays didn't want ot discuss and people that they steered clear of. It showed the humanity in them, but never asked for pity and always reaffirmed the value of their life and their right to live. It was a groundbreaking play when it came out. People could and still can get in for $20 if they wait.
The play is edgier than the movie, but in a way, it was never meant to be one. People accepts everything that comes their way in movies. Anything goes, but as a play is it something different. While they did a decent enough job of making one once they did, it can never and will never be the play. The play sucks you in and you can't look away from the second it starts.
Also on a side note, I liked in the play how there are only five lines or so of spoken dialogue, which they changed for some reason in the movie.
A couple things that I do prefer in the movie though are the Over the Moon sequence and Joanne. Although, that might just be because I've seen it with two really bad Maureens. But the whole ADV thing that they did in the movie and the roit were amazing and something that they couldn't do in the play. Joanne was a completely different character in the movie than she is in the play. I mean it's the same basics, an African American, lesbian lawyer, but she's softer in the movie.


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