It almost seems like RENT the movie has suffered the same problem as HAIR the movie -- both were made at least five years too late, and more likely maybe even TEN!
Larson set the show in 1989 because of the AIDS crisis at that time and specifically to examine how the characters, most of whom are presumably in their mid to late 20s at that point, could look back on a freer, healthier time in the early 80s.
RENT was a great show, but it really was meant for a certain place and time, and for a certain age-group, I think. Not that it can't translate at all beyond that, but to "get" it best, you had to be of that place, time, and age. Not to mention a VERY particular social circle.
What's wrong with THAT, whippersnapper?!
The tragedy of RENT is that Jonathan Larson died the day it opened. :frowning:
Larson set the show in 1989 because of the AIDS crisis at that time and specifically to examine how the characters, most of whom are presumably in their mid to late 20s at that point, could look back on a freer, healthier time in the early 80s.
RENT was a great show, but it really was meant for a certain place and time, and for a certain age-group, I think. Not that it can't translate at all beyond that, but to "get" it best, you had to be of that place, time, and age. Not to mention a VERY particular social circle.
What's wrong with THAT, whippersnapper?!
The tragedy of RENT is that Jonathan Larson died the day it opened. :frowning: