The need to express, to communicate, to going against the grain . . .
Happy Thanksgiving, kids. Don't OD on that triptophan.
(Rent rant below)
Rent last night. There was so much good in it (of course, there was weeping), but so many things I believed he should have retained from the show. You don't know Rent until you've seen the play. Really - even you, Miss Perfect. I liked how loyal they were to the "script" - I half expected them to say all of the singspiel-type parts, rhyming included. I didn't like the whole "commitment ceremony" thing, but "Take Me or Leave Me" was still fantastic. That Idina Menzel. She is one perfect specimen. Anyway. It absolutely needed the rest of "Goodbye Love" - I was so heartbroken. Imagine: "Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survviiiiiive!" Ah! It would have been so tragic.
Rosario? I wanted to hate her. I really did. She needs to learn how to enunciate vowels. There was a really closed "E" she sang that made me cringe, cringe, cringe. Anyway - as someone on the Rent community said: I started out wanting to hate her, but she became less hateful and more Mimi. It's true. Daphne would have been amazing, amazing, but for what they were going for, Rosario did well. I also thought I was going to hate Adam's hair, but it ended up being pretty sexy. There was a Gavin Rossdale-like thing going on.
La Vie Boehme was fantastic, but again, nothing, nothing, nothing beats live. I loved how the metal table was incorporated in the set, too. HUGE part of the live set.
Oh BTW - found a whole slew of my old school Rent icons at my other journal. Whole slew. Old school still rocks my world.
Still, though, I'd give it 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, if we're talking stars. The gay men sitting next to me kept saying, "shut UP!" in gay fashion and annoying me to no end. Sans gay men, I would have been as happy as a clam.
(END RENT RANT.)
That's really all I wanted to talk about. Carry on! More silly ranting later. I'm sure there will be craziness all around this evening. Nan and Mom are stuffing the turkey, which is always a challenge. Yeesh. Can I really hang until Saturday/Sunday? We'll see.
Heh - my mood will be "grateful" today. Hee.
(Rent rant below)
Rent last night. There was so much good in it (of course, there was weeping), but so many things I believed he should have retained from the show. You don't know Rent until you've seen the play. Really - even you, Miss Perfect. I liked how loyal they were to the "script" - I half expected them to say all of the singspiel-type parts, rhyming included. I didn't like the whole "commitment ceremony" thing, but "Take Me or Leave Me" was still fantastic. That Idina Menzel. She is one perfect specimen. Anyway. It absolutely needed the rest of "Goodbye Love" - I was so heartbroken. Imagine: "Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survviiiiiive!" Ah! It would have been so tragic.
Rosario? I wanted to hate her. I really did. She needs to learn how to enunciate vowels. There was a really closed "E" she sang that made me cringe, cringe, cringe. Anyway - as someone on the Rent community said: I started out wanting to hate her, but she became less hateful and more Mimi. It's true. Daphne would have been amazing, amazing, but for what they were going for, Rosario did well. I also thought I was going to hate Adam's hair, but it ended up being pretty sexy. There was a Gavin Rossdale-like thing going on.
La Vie Boehme was fantastic, but again, nothing, nothing, nothing beats live. I loved how the metal table was incorporated in the set, too. HUGE part of the live set.
Oh BTW - found a whole slew of my old school Rent icons at my other journal. Whole slew. Old school still rocks my world.
Still, though, I'd give it 3 1/2 out of 4 stars, if we're talking stars. The gay men sitting next to me kept saying, "shut UP!" in gay fashion and annoying me to no end. Sans gay men, I would have been as happy as a clam.
(END RENT RANT.)
That's really all I wanted to talk about. Carry on! More silly ranting later. I'm sure there will be craziness all around this evening. Nan and Mom are stuffing the turkey, which is always a challenge. Yeesh. Can I really hang until Saturday/Sunday? We'll see.
Heh - my mood will be "grateful" today. Hee.