The matinee on Sat May 10 will be performance number 5,000 for RENT. Anyone know if they have anything special planned? Or is 5,000 no longer considered a milestone?
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
By my calculation the matinee on May 24th is the 5000th performance.
EDIT- I'm using ibdb.com and not playbill.com's list which has a few other errors.
This date (with the use of reverse counting) was also confirmed by Entertainment Weekly when they ran their article on Rent's initial closing date and mentioned it was closing with 5,011 or 5,012 performances, something like that.
Updated On: 4/21/08 at 08:15 PM
By my calculations that's 29 perfs to go, putting it on Saturday the 10th.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Why do you say this is sad? Is it because you don't like the show and you find it sad that it finally is reaching this far in terms of a performance count.
"If you try to shag my husband while I am still alive, I will shove the art of motorcycle maintenance up your rancid little Cu**. That's a good dear"
Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
I see frogs_fan. Playbill lists 4,971 as of April 13, but IBDB lists 4,963 as of April 20. I wonder if Playbill is including the 16 previews as part of the tally? That would account for the discrepency. If so, they are wrong, you are right and that puts the 5,000th on May 24.
Either way, we still don't know if anything special is planned.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com