NO DAY BUT TODAY

JANUARY 19, 2008 

My favorite musical of ALL TIME is closing on Broadway! :-(

I'm obsessed with Musicals, and in the last few years they've really made a comeback!  "Walk the Line", "High School Musical", "Hairspray", "Sweeney Todd", "Mamma-Mia", etc.

That makes me really happy that people are catching on to how truly entertaining musicals are!  Broadway versions are always better than the movies though.  Hands down!  So when it comes to actual Broadway, all these new Musicals are slowing pushing my favorite one of all time off the map!  RENT. 

RENT is amazing...  It's a beautiful story of love, disease, death, struggle, stigmas, and living life to the fullest.  It seriously changed my life when I saw it for the first time in New York City in 2005.  I was beyond moved.  And the story behind the writer's life it makes it truly even more amazing.  Now all this new competition on the Broadway scene in New York is decreasing ticket sales for RENT which makes me very sad.  I wish there were someway I could see it one more time before it closes for good on June 1st, 2008.  I guess I'll always have the movie... LOL, but honestly the movie does not do the story any justice.  It doesn't make sense they cut out vital parts!!  Grrrr.

I guess nothing lasts forever.  It's just such a shame to see it go down like this after 12 years. Especially knowing the writer Jonathan Larson worked his whole life to get RENT on Broadway, and he died on opening night and never lived to see it.  (The show went on that night by the way it was dedicated to him.)  This was his dream, and it would have been nice to see it live on forever.  In a way HE lived on through RENT.  Hopefully the musical closes the final curtain with dignity, and a standing ovation like they received on opening night.

"No Day but Today"

So if you're headin to NYC anytime before June 1 make sure you catch RENT.  It's well worth it!  (Not suitable for children...)

Talk soon ~ Bri - xo