rent review
not bad, not bad.. it was, as we said yesterday.. so-so..i was suppose to post my review of the play last night.. but i was too tired.. hehe.. aside from the fact that i really cant recall much about it.. only that we spent $264 for our tickets.. =p
so here's what i do remember..
- first, the theater was not that close from the mrt station as we thought.. good thing that we alloted a good 45 minutes for our travel..
- the play was entitled 'RENT' because the artists in the play living in new york couldnt pay their rent.. it has a simple plot.. the lives of the artists entangled with homosexuality and drugs.. to sum up the story: it was about struggling young artists in new york who supported each other as they face the harsh realities of the world, poverty, crime, drugs and AIDS.. there were 3 love stories.. (1) that of mimi, a drug-junkie/S&M performer, and roger, an HIV positive, struggling guitar player (2) angel, a she-male, and i forgot his name (gays), (3) maureen and joanne (lesbians)..
- there were a lot of kissing from the gay and lesbian lovers.. real kissing and not just smacks.. my panga cringed with every kiss.. hahaha! i've seen more vulgar kissings in LA.. so it wasnt new to me..
- when the play started.. actually, we didnt really know that it had started since the whole theater was still lit and there was no opening of curtains and all.. there was singing here and there.. and yet i could not really follow what was happening at that point.. after 3 minutes into the show.. the stage manager came out on the farther left side of the stage and informed everyone that they were having some technical difficulties.. especially with the lights..
ahhh.. so that's why.. and she said they would start from the beginning.. and when they did start for the second time, the lead actor, mark (the wanna-be documentary film maker), said.. 'should we start from the smile?'.. 'ok, we'll start from the smile'.. and they started singing =S hey, that wasnt how you started a few minutes ago.. o well..
- i was surprised that karen mok could sing.. and well.. no accent whatsoever.. but she does have a certain mannerism on stage that is difficult to describe.. or maybe it was in her character or maybe she was a bit conscious.. but she was doing it all throughout the play.. kinda distracting at times.. but she does have great legs! she had this dance routine on the balcony which i think was very hard to do.. singing and dancing.. basically on steel that i think was only as thick as my arm..
- our seat was great! not too close as we expected.. yeah, we could see the actors' spit from where we were seated (and a lot of it.. hehe).. but there was a good 3-4 meters gap from the stage to the first row seats.. and we were on the third row.. =p
- i love the character maureen.. the girl had a 15 minutes solo.. she did a monologue as a protest for what's being done or rather not being done to help people like her.. she was hilarious! maybe the only part of the play where everyone was laughing (and awake).. by the way she played a lesbian character here.. and in one of the song, she showed her butt..
- no new song stuck in my head after the play was done.. just the 'seasons of love', which i already know by heart.. and this means a lot to my pangga and i.. coz usually, after a movie or play we would be humming a new song together..
all in all, the play was ok.. uhmmm.. fine! it was a let down as a whole.. the set was uninspiring, it was the same from beginning to end.. the casts did lack the energy during their performance.. maybe because that's their last day of performance in SG.. who knows, i could only speculate.. but still, they could have done better..
i hear the movie is worse.. =p
posted by jane @ 12/06/2005 03:00:00 PM
9 Comments:
awww... maybe it isn't such a loss if the movie won't reach manila. sayang naman yung play, yung dito sa manila maganda kasi. well, yung parts na naaalala ko kasi hindi ko full napanood... :p
ay, pinalabas nga rin pala sa manila yung Rent no? sa Greenhills nga ba lei? reeyuh wanted to catch it dati eh, dunno if she was able to.
ay stoofid, i forgot my original comment. hehehe!
malapit din pala kayo janey eh. actually, i wouldn't wanna be seated sa pinaka-unang row pag plays, kasi mas marami akong namimiss pag ganon. i want the big picture, pero kita pa rin yung facial expression ng actors. =)
i watched the movie. it wasnt that bad.. =P well, ive nothing to compare it to as havent seen it on stage yet.
i'll comment more on this once I get to watch a Rent play onstage =)
mishu much gurl!! hugzz!! =)
there's a lot of buzz here about the movie, RENT. And apparently it was a big hit (the play) here, maybe because this is the homosexual capital of the US. I don't know.
Nice review, pakner. :-) I'll try to watch the movie. My cousins want to see it 'coz they like the song that says how many minutes there are in a year. Hehe.
i guess that's it for us.. tama na yung play.. im pretty sure we wont be watching the movie even if it gets here.. =)
beng: yup, music museum with monique wilson. she also recently played a part on stage in Angels in America.
RENT will start here dec13. arnd 250-700hkd ata. was planning to watch pero... thanks to ur raves janey! hehe HP nlng panoorin ko. tska un exorcism of emily rose? or un just like heaven.
(ha-yaa movies na ang binanggit hehe)
reeyuh!
naku baka magalit sa kin si karen mok.. hahahah!
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