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Jun. 13th, 2009 03:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivienWe went to see Rent (the touring show with the originators of Mark and Roger performing) for Prom Queen's birthday. She is seventeen, omg! Anyway, I had never seen it, and oh, okay, now I see what the fuss was all about. I'm just about thirteen years late.
See, P hates musicals (except for Jesus Christ Superstar), and while I enjoyed Annie and other popular musicals as a kid, I never got into them and I never really got to see many on stage. My high school did not do musicals (we did straight up theater) and my theater track in college was definitely not the musical theater track. In fact, I think it is fair to say I was a musical snob for a long time. If it wasn't theater (without the silly singing), I wasn't interested (except for Cabaret - that was my big favorite). It was a thing.
Now we are much more receptive. In the last few years I've seen Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and now Rent for the first time ever on stage. One of these days, I'll see Les Mis - it is on the list.
Rent was quite good, even though I cared far less about Mimi/Roger than I did Angel/Collins or Joann/Maureen. But the music was, wow, energizing, to say the least, and I loved the staging. The ensemble last night was quite good, but I think some songs got a bit oversung; it was hard to hear words, but there was plenty of voice. Of course, we were also in the nosebleed seats, so it could be that we just didn't get the best effect up there. The show's highest praise came from P who said, "It was a lot better than I thought it would be." *snickers*
See, P hates musicals (except for Jesus Christ Superstar), and while I enjoyed Annie and other popular musicals as a kid, I never got into them and I never really got to see many on stage. My high school did not do musicals (we did straight up theater) and my theater track in college was definitely not the musical theater track. In fact, I think it is fair to say I was a musical snob for a long time. If it wasn't theater (without the silly singing), I wasn't interested (except for Cabaret - that was my big favorite). It was a thing.
Now we are much more receptive. In the last few years I've seen Cats, Phantom of the Opera, and now Rent for the first time ever on stage. One of these days, I'll see Les Mis - it is on the list.
Rent was quite good, even though I cared far less about Mimi/Roger than I did Angel/Collins or Joann/Maureen. But the music was, wow, energizing, to say the least, and I loved the staging. The ensemble last night was quite good, but I think some songs got a bit oversung; it was hard to hear words, but there was plenty of voice. Of course, we were also in the nosebleed seats, so it could be that we just didn't get the best effect up there. The show's highest praise came from P who said, "It was a lot better than I thought it would be." *snickers*