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Rent: Live
Here we are going to have more powerful and varied events taking place among friends in New York. The events of that story began through many friends in New York City facing financial poverty, homophobia, AIDS, and, of course, rent. Perhaps there will be more things these friends face as they provide a real example of all those things that preceded.
27 August 1986, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
18 January 1969, Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA
30 May 1971, Syosset, New York, USA
2 December 1971, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2 January 1971, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2 October 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
26 October 1971, Joliet, Illinois, USA
6 February 1993, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
18 November 1969, Panama City, Panama
28 March 1974, Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania, USA
22 February 1980, Los Angeles County, California, USA
25 October 1970, The Bronx, New York, USA
January 29, 2019
The screwup on this one is about to become legendary and will probably have massive effects on any live musical theater performances on television going forward.
January 28, 2019
Rent Live not actually live, but the dress rehearsal, but still spectacular and timeless. Tinashe is the night's MVP.
January 28, 2019
I will give the live rendition credit on a couple of counts, however. Jordan Fisher, who played Mark, was fantastic.
February 05, 2019
Live performance of popular, mature musical hits sour note.
January 28, 2019
But to make all of this even weirder, there was a live performance of Rent happening onstage - and it was awesome!
January 28, 2019
There were moments, songs, and even stretches of "Rent Live" that worked as an engrossing musical experience, but the whole thing did not gel.
February 01, 2019
This, it should not need to be said, made for a depressingly lame show...
January 29, 2019
Outside the dress rehearsal disaster, one of the weirder side effects of "Rent" airing on Fox is that "Rent" could never be itself on Fox.
January 28, 2019
Rent had a chance to show off the flexibility and work ethic of Broadway in the face of a setback - and completely blew it.
January 28, 2019
Lots to enjoy - and yet, there was something a bit remote about this Rent.
January 29, 2019
Rent: Live isn't the definitive version of Rent, but I don't think it set out to be either. Fox's version of Rent is-to quote David S. Pumpkins-it's own thing.
January 29, 2019
We'll never know whether a genuinely live version would have come closer to preserving the urgency of Larson's beloved musical, but it certainly would've had a better excuse for showing so many seams.
