can't believe this is
I have been exceptionally boring lately, but my fandom life (if this even this counts?) has consisted mainly of apparently attempting to watch every video on Youtube involving Alicia Sacramone, Nastia Liukin, Chellsie Memmel, Bridget Sloan, et al. (It is so sad that as my everyone on flist posts their fall TV schedules, I realize that I am only planning on watching The Office and Lost, and Gossip Girl in a very uninvested way. uh.)
but I feel like I have to add to what will probably be the three thousand posts about the closing of RENT that will appear on your flist.
I don't have the energy nor the time to make a pretty graphic or collage; I only have my most genuine and sincere sadness to offer. Honestly, I plan on hitting up the tour a frillion times (no matter my Pascal reservations) when it stops in Chicago for two weeks at the beginning of April, so this is hardly my final experience with RENT. but it is certainly an Ending, and the finality involved is undeniable. While it probably (I admit this reluctantly) has run its course, it has been a constant on Broadway for basically my entire life and certainly my entire theatre-aware life. Losing a presence like that is very distressing.
Something about its grit and intimacy and very personal nature has touched me like very few other -- not even merely works of theatre -- works of any media. What other fandom has motivated me to stand outside in the cold for hours upon hours on a gross day in February? I have loved it in different ways at different points in my life, and I am sure I will continue to love it for the rest. RIP to RENT's first Broadway run, though I am sure this isn't its death. <3
in conclusion, RENT 10 Out Tonight, because I could watch it a frillion times and still be blown away by the sheer levels of fierce Daphne achieves here.
p.s. happy birthday, revyrie!
but I feel like I have to add to what will probably be the three thousand posts about the closing of RENT that will appear on your flist.
I don't have the energy nor the time to make a pretty graphic or collage; I only have my most genuine and sincere sadness to offer. Honestly, I plan on hitting up the tour a frillion times (no matter my Pascal reservations) when it stops in Chicago for two weeks at the beginning of April, so this is hardly my final experience with RENT. but it is certainly an Ending, and the finality involved is undeniable. While it probably (I admit this reluctantly) has run its course, it has been a constant on Broadway for basically my entire life and certainly my entire theatre-aware life. Losing a presence like that is very distressing.
Something about its grit and intimacy and very personal nature has touched me like very few other -- not even merely works of theatre -- works of any media. What other fandom has motivated me to stand outside in the cold for hours upon hours on a gross day in February? I have loved it in different ways at different points in my life, and I am sure I will continue to love it for the rest. RIP to RENT's first Broadway run, though I am sure this isn't its death. <3
in conclusion, RENT 10 Out Tonight, because I could watch it a frillion times and still be blown away by the sheer levels of fierce Daphne achieves here.
p.s. happy birthday, revyrie!