L'étoile luit / le poète prie / et passent les heures / mais sans toi...

[tragic_elegance]

Thanks a lot, lifeisacookie, by having me waste use my time finding RENT in different languages. (She linked to the German version in a tweet. Now I desperately want the French, especially the 2004 cast in Montreal with Marie-Mai as Mimi and Korean (their version of Light My Candle is gorgeous) versions. I can't find a Japanese version that's actually in

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[lifeisacookie]

RENT for highschool is SUCH a bad idea. I mean, for Les Mis there was a highschool version that we did, but that was because there were a few pieces that would be REALLY hard for voices that had not been professionally trained, and because it's insanely long. But with RENT...i mean, where do you draw the line? If you're gonna start cutting things...where do you draw the line? I mean, there's SOO much...

But now you've got me listening to RENT too. Haven't listened in forever cuz i have to find the CD(never seen it - Ian gave me the CD) but i have more on my computer than i thought, so La Vie Boheme is playing now.

[tragic_elegance]

It's a novel concept, but it'll never have the same meaning, even if you keep all of the stuff relating to AIDS and fighting it and everything like that.
Haha, Les Mis is hard to sing at some points, especially Javier.

Please, take it out of my head! It's been there for a solid week and a half. As much as I adore it, it won't leave...

[tragic_elegance]

I think there may be an even bigger contrast between the Irani in the countryside, the Irani in the street, and the regime.
I second that it doesn't "blow up", literally more than figuratively. Who's to say the crazy government won't drop a few missiles on Tehran just to show who's boss? (Actually, I'm not sure where the head of state is located, but the scenario's the same.)

[penniless_wrter]

I tried listening for any words I could recognize in Korean...I could pick out a few, mostly, a lot of "nos" and "where." Also, "they call me" in Korean.