The final entry in my fall musical madness: Rent. I remember everyone obsessing over this one in high school (Everyone = the girls that did all the musical theater stuff), so I felt obligated to finally see it. Believe it or not, I hadn’t seen the movie either so I only had a vague idea of the story.
While I enjoyed the “rock” music – quoted because, of course, it’s Broadway-ized rock, I wasn’t a huge fan of the storyline. I don’t know why. Part of me felt a little annoyed with these people for throwing their lives away. All this complaining about freezing and whatnot, but half of them also do not work or actually “do” anything. Sigh. How conservative and un-bohemian of me. Mark did end up “selling out” by selling his film footage to some trashy TV show. I think we were supposed to be disappointed that he was now working for The Man ™ but I was like, hey, maybe you won’t have to live in an abandoned factory anymore! Sweet!
So, while overall, I enjoyed the show, I suppose the problem was that I did not feel a personal connection to any of the characters. Though, I suppose, what would a musical about 20-something professionals be about? Will there be… Office Space: The Musical someday? Don’t laugh too much. Besides all those Disney movies converted to musicals, I’ve noticed that Legally Blonde AND the Wedding Singer are now Broadway musicals. No lie, dudes. Milton may very well be striking up a tune in our near future… I can see it now… the opening song shall be “Ode to my Red Stapler.” Box office gem, people. I’m writing it here so I can get rights to the royalties someday.
Perhaps the highlight of the evening was seeing Mr. South African Idol (ie the South African who won their version of American Idol). Wow, an almost famous person! Ding!
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