#my fav song is la vie boheme tho just not that part

[reallybadblackoutpoems]

your eyes (1996) - original broadway cast of rent (article from genius)

“in an arc that has spanned from ‘one song glory,’ we see roger finally write and perform ‘one song to leave behind.’ unfortunately, it’s bad.”

[auspicioustarantula]

my thoughts on rent live

- maybe im biased toward mark bc hes my favorite character in rent but jordan fisher did SO GOOD. i ADORED him in that role and i loved his stupid ugly rainbow sweater i want it so bad. he just. UGH he was my fav

- my other favorites were kiersey as joanne and brandon as tom!!!! i audibly gasped when the woman playing joanne came onstage like holy SHIT she was so beautiful and i loved her voice. and the guy playing tom absolutely blew me away during angel's funeral. his vocal range is insane.

- vanessa hudgens surprised me! i thought she did really well with maureen!

- i didn't care as much for james and brennin. angel really disappointed me in his first song (but those OUTFITS) and i felt like the roger was too modern looking and like...."brooding" if y'all catch my drift. and i thought tinashe did pretty good as mimi!

(im trying to go in order but its probably not gonna be lmao)

- so obviously there was some initial disappointment over it not being actually live bc brennin broke his foot, except this was kind of funny because every time roger did something jack would be like “i bet that’s where he broke his foot. see when he jumped into the crowd? broke his foot”

- i actually like the recorded bits a lot better than the live version but they were probably edited a little bit? i think brennin sounded a lot better in the live version at the very end tho

- blue hair guy

- i ADORED the costume design. mark’s stupid sweater!!!! mimi’s little blue shorts!!! benny’s fuzzy yellow jacket!!! everything angel wore!!! it was. SO GOOD the only one i didn’t like was roger’s costume it felt too modern for me

- ive never seen a staged production of rent and i didn’t realize it was completely sung through

- mark and roger’s relationship was so? cute?

- TANGO MAUREEN was my favorite (this isn’t a surprise) but gosh when joanne led for mark? bitches i SWOONED i just. UGH I LOVED IT

- also i was NOT DISAPPOINTED with la vie boheme! i loved the dancing! so much booty! the angles! everything mark did! ugh! amazing!

- this really made my bisexual heart soar. mimi, sitting on top of roger? oh, man, she has a nice ass--roger, rolling over on top of mimi? oh my gosh, he has a nice ass too but those plaid pants oh my gosh

- oh gosh. the stage? the? what are you seeing as an audience member? i felt like the camera moved around way too much. it was hard to focus? i didn’t know what to look at? there was so much going on all the time. i didn’t like that aspect of it especially since it seemed like some parts of the stage were only used once or twice

- they changed piss to puke i was ?????? confusion

- WHAT YOU OWN AJKSDBJHABDBASDJA

- watching maureen's concert was not worse live. it was not better, either. i just. ugh. i do NOT like that scene it’s so weird? and lasts forever? (also could they not have put that harness on her more sneakily. i mean COME ON)

- like i said i haven’t seen a staged production of rent but i DID NOT LIKE angel’s death!!! at all!!! half of our group was crying (spot, henry, oscar, albert, race) and the other half (me, jack, and tommy boy) were talking about how much we didn’t like it. one of my favorite parts about movie rent is the small scene where angel and tom are on the bus and he’s just holding him there. it’s so touching and so heartbreaking to me and i felt like all the theatrics with the blanket and the dancing really tore the emotion away from me.

- all of the adults upstairs would NOT stop laughing when roger was holding mimi at the end. everyone is crying and we just hear this cackling like my mans roger is half sitting on the table, half on a chair, crying over this girl that might be dead, and like i was laughing too a little bit but they were SO LOUD up there

- all of the movie and obc cast coming out to sing...….yeah that's all i have to say on that omg 

anyways i’d give it a solid 7.5/10! there were some parts i really adored and some parts i think the movie did a lot better, but overall i enjoyed it and i would watch it again! my heart goes out to poor brennin and his foot, ik a lot of people are angry bc it wasn’t “live” but like damn!!!! he’s in pain and he did so good with the scene that they reworked!!1