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Adam & Anthony - friends forever. (x)
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Lookie what I bought
#rent#rent musical#rent obc#rent best of album#jonathan larson#i have a discman#im so excited#mark cohen#mimi marquez#roger davis#angel dumott schunard#tom collins#maureen johnson#idina menzel#anthony rapp#adam pascal
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that rasp idina menzel used to have in her voice holy shit
#LISTENING TO THE ORGINAL RENT CAST RECORDING AND OMFG TAKE ME OR LEAVE ME IS SSOOO GOOD#GIRL I WANT U SO BAD#i mean what who said that#anyways.#everyday i see another woman that reminds me how gay i am#idina menzel#rent#rent musical#wicked#i mean yeah wicked counts too ig#rent obc#rent the musical#rent the movie#jasper screams
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God I love RENT.
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me vs over sharing
#my partner n i had a fight like 3 days ago bc they want to move out at the end of this month and i said it wouldn’t be the best time#bc my mum is having back surgery and my sister is taking the 6 & 7 year old to make it a bit easier for her#and i said i’d want to be here to help her with six damn fucking kids and they got mad at me for letting them hold us back#GIRL I HATE THIS FUCKING HOUSE I DONT WANNA BE HERE EITHER i hate the mess i’m so fucking tired of it like every space feels so overwhelming#and j can’t do anything ab it bc i fucking clean and it’s there again in a day#and my mum has the surgery the same day we have our house inspection here and it’s just A LOT AT OBCE AND THE MF WANTED TO ADD FUCKING GETTI#A HOME OOAN ON TOP OF THAY????????? be so fucking real bro anyway we argued for literally like 2 hours ab this and i’m still kinda mad ab it#but i’m gonna be Relaxed#bc like pisses me off that they think i want to be here#i’m treated like a second mother to these kids which is like fine whayever bc we live here rent free and i want to pay back in some way#but like k don’t fucking want kids i don’t want to parent i don’t want to fucking wake up in the middle of the night for milk i don’t want#to deal with tantrums like u rlly think I WANT TO BE HERE LONGER THAN ENCESSARU BRO#anyway sorry#tw: vent#「mercury speaks」
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christmas bells is one of the BEST rent songs ever . reasons slash fav bits under the cut
i LOVE the chaos like all different charactwrs singing its so fucking good
THE ANGEL AND COLLINS BITSSSS 😭😭😭 THEYRE SO SWEET I LOVE IT
angels 'no.. no...no.. OH no.' i love it
MARK RECOUNTING MIMIS STUFF IN LIGHT MY CANDLE 'she got you out!!!' i love this bit
MARKS SHOCK AT SEEING MIMI especially in the obc recording. WOOAAAHH!!
the double entendre of 'got any c, man/got any semen' its brills
the fucking. 'hey lover boy cutie pie' STOP??? IT ALWAYS MAKES ME GIGGLE. Like he couldve approached that so much better
'shes a thief!' 'but she bought us together!!' its so sad and lovely like. they met bc of such a horrid incident but atlesst they met yknow
its just such a banger, when theyre all singing over eachother at the end ITS SO GREAT
and bonus points cuz it just puts me in a christmassy mood.
WHAT A GREAT SONG
#i love it so so so so mjch agh#one of my all time FAVS#wish the obc was on spotify 💔#rent 2019#rent the musical#rent#rent musical
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why is my brain randomly hyperfixating on cassandra
#help me#i've been on an obc kick ever since i got the vinyl#charlotte d'amboise cass stop living rent free in my head#i don't even ship tuggercass (that much ngl)#but the photos of her and terrence
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I never try to do anything I never mean to hurt anyone I try, I try to be a good kid A good kid A good son
#今日の気分は#got tickets to see this (local theatre production)#I realized that this will be my first time seeing a live musical since...2011???? that can't be right#but I can't remember going to a production since 2011 (mediocre production of Rent)#I've seen a couple of recorded productions since then but. grad school really did a number on me#(also the pandemic. but you know.)#anyway. excited to finally see this. after writing literally thousands of words of superqueeroes character sheets to the OBC recording#music#The Lightning Thief
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two mins late but merry rentmas y’all
#im wearing my rent shirt and listening to the obc…#no proshot this year… i’m tired…#pointless rambling
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rip Jonathan Larson, you were a great composer
#listening to rent on cd#it’s very good#also i believe that the obc recording of tick tick boom is much better than the netflix one#i will not be swayed on this decision#jonathan larson#rent the musical#tick tick boom#musical theatre#i say things sometimes
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and if i said rent live is the best rent soundtrack….
#except take me or leave me obc is unmatched there#i mean no one will ever top anthony rapp but jordan fisher’s mark is really good#rent
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I think the way we learn about the status of each character is kinda genius, because it informs us not only who is positive and negative but also who is mostly dealing okay and who is struggling, and it helps characterize the large cast of characters.
Collins flinches away when Angel first touches him, because he’s bleeding and it’s a significant bio hazard, but doesn’t offer up the information until Angel does. He’s at peace with being positive, but at the same time, it’s a private thing for him; probably he’s learned to stay a lil hushed about it due to his background in academia and the prejudice he almost definitely faced there. He’s also way less patient with Roger’s lil depression spiral -“Roger picked up the phone?!” and “Oh hi’? After seven months?!” - which makes you think this isn’t new for Collins, and he’s a bit too removed from his first positive test to be as understanding (or enabling) of Roger. He has no shame but he’s not stupid either.
Then there’s Angel, who offers up the information within moments of meeting Collins, almost as a way of flirting. Like Collins, Angel is at peace with her status and unashamed of who she is. Unlike Collins, she hasn’t had to hide it. To Angel, being positive is almost just part of being queer; growing up and becoming herself in the 80s and 90s means this is all Angel has ever known, is a community ravaged and left to die of AIDS by its government. She’s already living on the streets (quite likely a victim of prejudice for her status and gender/sexuality if we’re being super honest) so what the hell does she care if people know she’s positive? She’s also coping the best out of everyone because she’s accepted it; she has a loving support system in the Life Support meetings and in Mimi. She has no shame in who she is!
Maureen and Joanne’s negative status is never conveyed explicitly but what’s interesting is that both of them are introduced through their relationship with each other, and then, through their activism. The Voicemail let’s us know Joanne is a civil rights lawyer, a genius, and potentially has a strained relationship with her parents due to her sexuality or gender presentation. Before we even meet her, we know Joanne will love and fit in with this group (have always felt Collins & Joanne bonded over feeling like outsiders while bumping elbows with The Upper Class). Maureen, meanwhile, gets “that attitude towards the homeless is exactly what Maureen is protesting tonight”; it’s not surprise she’s up there singing “revolution justice screaming for solutions” alongside Collins, why she’s so drawn to Joanne - maybe she didn’t go the academic route the way Collins & Joanne do, but she’s just as smart and determined to Do Something with her life. We are shown, long before either woman shows up on stage, that they are unashamed of their friends and would fight alongside them when needed.
Roger’s status, on the other hand, is disclosed over several songs. “How can you connect in an age where strangers, landlords, lovers, your own blood cells betray” and the only positive character on stage besides the extras is Roger, but he doesn’t sing the line alone. In fact, Roger isn’t even the one to ultimately tell us - it’s Mark, mother henning & telling Roger to take his AZT who informs us that Roger being HIV positive is a new thing, likely from sharing dirty needles with April. Even more telling is that Mark informs us during the tune-up that Roger is in recovery & attempting to reconnect to his old passions, but pointedly doesn’t tell us Roger is positive until later. Unlike Collins & Angel, who have progressed further into AIDS yet dont “act sick”, Roger is very much still “acting sick” because he’s in shock. Not just that he’s positive but also that April killed herself. He’s not just struggling with being positive, he is stuck in that moment, reliving finding April and that note over and over and terrified of dying the moment he leaves the safety of the apartment. Shame, trauma, and unending grief consume him, so he tries to hide from his reality even as he reaches for community.
And then there’s Mimi!! What I always notice is not just that she’s casual while not offering up information until it’s necessary - she doesn’t tell Roger until their FOURTH song together! - but that she’s clearly struggling just like Roger. Obviously she’s struggling physically because she’s still using drugs, she’s still drinking, she’s still partying way too much, but she’s also still just sad. “Feels too damn much like home, where the Spanish babies cry. So let's find a bar so dark we forget who we are where all the scars from the nevers and maybes die” isn’t just about Mimi being restless and young and poor, it’s her own version of One Song Glory; she still “feels sick” and feels like her life has been stolen from her, and is desperate to forget everything that reminds her that she’s positive. Not just reckless, and not something as easy to pinpoint as shame, Mimi feels like she’s stuck in a never ending cycle of sickness and sadness and death, and has chosen to deal by simply refusing to acknowledge reality outside of the exact moment she’s living in.
And then there’s Mark. “Oh I’m not-I’m just here to-I don’t have-I’m here with-MARK! MARK! I’m MARK.” Most of his friends are sick and dying around him and there’s not a damn thing he can do about it and it hurts, and it makes him incapable of connecting to others emotionally while desperately seeking connections before the people he loves die. How do you find the line between grief and self pity? How do you not give into guilt while it is weighing your every moment down? Mark is unsure and he will not confide in us his feelings of despair until halfway through Act II after Angel’s funeral when the grief and guilt and pity overtake him until he can no longer hide behind his camera.
#angel is the key. she helps them realize there is more life to live than just this one moment. she heals the people she loves.#and love is her final act.#rent#i listened to the obc on my commute from home in so emo aksjdjd#rani makes text posts no one will read
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feeling very mark cohen on this december 24th
#i Was planning on doing a rent rewatch but idk if i'd be able to Focus on it#might just do a relisten of the obc album for the first time in Years since it got taken off spotify#but my main plan is to listen to halloween and fucking FEEL SOMETHING
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Oh man I’m unlocking some core childhood memories here
Les Mis, Chicago, and Wicked…
reblog if the first musical you listened to was not Hamilton
#les mierables#chicago#Wicked#Sweeney Todd#Rent#were my first exposures… in that order#hearing my sister sing On My Own at a recital and needing MORE#bebe neuwirth#bob fosse#and my closeted friend who burned the Wicked OBC for me one summer and changed my freaking life.#I bow to a skill far greater than my own.
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maureen im not a theater person!!!!
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ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT OBC) // RENT (RENT) // EURIPIDES (ANNE CARSON TRANSLATION) // ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT 2005) // GOODBYE LOVE (RENT) // TV (BILLIE EILISH) // ANTHONY RAPP & ADAM PASCAL AS MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS (RENT 2005) // OVERGROWN GARDEN (BEETLEBUG) // SLOW, SLOW DEATH (LOS CAMPESINOS!) // WHAT YOU OWN (RENT)
MARK COHEN & ROGER DAVIS
#annie.txt#rent#rent musical#faves#<- yes i'm fave tagging my own post#mark cohen#roger davis#this is a ship post btw...#i have a playlist 4 them that i can link if anyone wants#do u ever . think about them#web weaving#claudia weaves webs#let me tell you a story about war
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