Because of the great experience I had last time in Broadway with "Chicago", I decided to do it again with my friend Jinfeng, who was visiting New York on a business trip. Since "Chicago" was a story about, what else, Chicago, I picked "Rent", a story about NYC this time as our first choice. Thanks again to TKTS, we were able to get the half-priced ticket. An even detailed source on the various rush ticket policies for different shows was Talkin' Broadway, where I found out later only to convince the optimality of our purchase. (The only better price we could have got was the lottery $20 tickets, whose risk we couldn't afford.)
Unlike "Chicago", whose music was my favorite, (all that) jazz, "Rent" featured exclusively rock and pop. And unlike "Chicago", with which I was bragging about my English listening, "Rent" was hopelessly beyond my capacity, especially when they were fighting in rock songs. My poor English-speaking ego was hurt badly.
Based on Puccini's "La bohème", "Rent" had lots of story-telling recitatives, where I lost my track of the story. I liked the rusty set, which reminded me a hip, smoky, sweaty underground dance club. The most memoriable performance, besides the sexy, provocative strip dance (without stripping, disappointedly) on the stairway by Mimi (Ava Gaudet), was the freaky, funny, native-American "Over the Moon" by Maureen (Haven Burton). Haven Burton totally nailed that one.
First thing I did after coming back from the show? Put "Rent" DVD on the top of my Netflix queue.
P.S., I visited MoMA again before the show and bought a very interesting t-shirt about the "History of Art".
Unlike "Chicago", whose music was my favorite, (all that) jazz, "Rent" featured exclusively rock and pop. And unlike "Chicago", with which I was bragging about my English listening, "Rent" was hopelessly beyond my capacity, especially when they were fighting in rock songs. My poor English-speaking ego was hurt badly.
Based on Puccini's "La bohème", "Rent" had lots of story-telling recitatives, where I lost my track of the story. I liked the rusty set, which reminded me a hip, smoky, sweaty underground dance club. The most memoriable performance, besides the sexy, provocative strip dance (without stripping, disappointedly) on the stairway by Mimi (Ava Gaudet), was the freaky, funny, native-American "Over the Moon" by Maureen (Haven Burton). Haven Burton totally nailed that one.
First thing I did after coming back from the show? Put "Rent" DVD on the top of my Netflix queue.
P.S., I visited MoMA again before the show and bought a very interesting t-shirt about the "History of Art".
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