Hello people. Before starting my first review I just want to say thanks to DirtyVelvet for inviting to come write about stuff, I hope you guys like it.
So for my first posting I shall be talking about RENT. The broadway musical turned movie. I guess it's pretty obvious that I am a huge RENT fan, hence the name The RentHead.
Original Broadway Cast:
Adam Pascal/Roger Davis
Anthony Rapp/Mark Cohen
Idina Menzel/Maureen Johnson
Wilson Jermaine Heredia/Angel Dumott Schunard
Taye Diggs/"Benny" Benjamin Coffin the third
Jesse L. Martin/Tom Collins
Daphne Rubin-Vega/Mimi Marquez
Fredi Walker/Joanne Jefferson
RENT is a musical written by Johnathan Larson which was inspired from La Boheme, an opera written by Giacomo Puccini.
RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. Measuring their lives in love, these starving artists strive for succes and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic.
RENT is about coping with life, dealing with love, loss, fear, and AIDS.
RENT started has an off broadway production in 1994 at the New York Theater Workshop. Then moved to broadway in 1996.
Unfortunately, the day before opening night, the writer, Johnathan Larson died from an aortic aneurysm.
But RENT went on to be the 8th longest running show in the history of broadway. A
nd still playing today.
In 2005 director Christopher Columbus along with writer Steve Chbosky and executive producers Allan Gordon, Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller, turned one of the most popular and loved broadway musicals into a motion picture. So with the exception of 2 original cast members, the original broadway cast got together and reprised their roles for the movie. The 2 who were not in the film were Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker.
So in came Rosario Dawson as Mimi Marquez and Tracie Thoms as Joanne Jefferson.
I have to say the movie to me was very well done. Chris Columbus did a great job. It was great to see most of the original cast come back and do the movie.
I often hear people say that RENT changed their lives in one way or another, and it's true, I know it changed mine.
RENT is a powerful, funny, energetic, moving, sad story that really makes us think about life.
The lyrics of the songs can really make you think, make you cry, and make you wanna dance and sing along, from the energetic upbeat La Vie Boheme to the sad and heartbreaking yet beautiful Goodbye Love.
So RENT on my list is a 10/10. But that's just my view, but I do
recommend it. It truly is a masterpiece.
The RentHead.
