Hopefully Columbus and Co. will be able to find this thread with all the other ones about the trailer around. :-P
This is sort of off topic, but does anyone have the link for the stage version of RENT in Asia (I think Japan)? I really would appreciate it.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
I saw it about an hour ago, thanks to that link, but I waited to post here until I saw it offically on TV. Wow. Amazing. I cried, I even made my mom watch it, who isn't crazy about Rent. She said even she was excited! I love all of them huddled up at the end singing No Day But Today. Beautiful. Idina's speech was cute, she did it a bit differently, but it was still great. Anyhoo, it was fantastic, I've still got the chills!
i love it! Except--i guess, mostly because of the script that leaked, I pictured finale B in the lot outside (at some point atleast) with a Lot of people and a huge pan of everyone singing and the projection on all the sorounding buildings or something really big like that...not just the 7 huddled together in the living room...even though that is how it is....unless of course there is some more powerful final shot which i'm sure there is.
actually in the new ending audrey II multiplies and goes on a blood curdling rampage of the east village and eats the entire cast before taking over the world...
"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living
piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character
and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and
incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness.
Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish
it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a
rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the
real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get
along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small
unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings.
Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end.
But end it does. Another part of you vanishes.
That's show business."-Anonymous
What?!!! It's about 8 friends?!!! Dammit!! Where is the grit?! Where are the blaring, ear splitting guitar riffs!!? Where are the two men getting it on?!!! Where are the homeless people sleeping in tent cities in the lots?!!! Where are the drug infested crack whores selling their bods for a fix?! Where is the hilarious over-the-top drag queen who fatally croaks in the end inducing the audience to chest heaving sobs?!! And what of the lesbians?!!! Damn you Chris Columbus!!! Damn you straight to oblivion!!!!
You're going the right way for a smacked bottom Marquise.
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter
"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter