La Vie Boheme at 35/18
Stage door at RENT in 2002 - with Sebastian Arcelus (Roger) About 16 years ago, I discovered the music of Jonathan Larson. It wasn't my choice. I have a friend who adores RENT . She had seen it multiple times already, and she was turning 21, so it only seemed right that her best friends take her to New York to see it on Broadway. I didn't want to go. RENT was to be nothing like Jesus Christ Superstar or Phantom of the Opera - the shows I adored. But I went anyway. "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss..." I sit in the theatre staring at the rough and messy set thinking that this is no where near as beautiful as a Paris Opera House. The orchestra starts, and I relax a bit. Two songs in, Angel - a cross dresser in a bright red Santa-themed dress - starts singing about how she played her drum and drove a dog crazy enough that he jumped off the roof. This is going exactly as I had assumed it would. I am told to "just go with it." So I do. A few so...