Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
by Michael John Warren
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Actor: Andrea Goss, Eden Espinosa, Renee Goldsberry, Shaun Earl, Will ChaseDirector: Michael John Warren
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
Editor: Adam Zuckerman
Editor: Edward Bishop
Producer: Andrew Fried
Producer: Chris Rouchard
Producer: Jon Kamen
Producer: Justin Wilkes
Producer: Philip W. Hack
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 165 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-03
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Movie Review: I am completely blown away!
Summary: 5 Stars
This dvd is AWESOME! I love it and Will Chase and Adam Kantor make the best Mark and Roger. Their acting is superb along with the rest of the cast. This was the first time I have seen the show and after watching this video I bought tickets to fly away and see it live on the Broadway tour. I have to say I was blown away by this dvd but who stood out for me the most right from the beginning was Will Chase. This guy can act like no one's business.WOW!
Summary of Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
Set in New York City's gritty East Village, the revolutionary rock opera RENT tells the story of a group of bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. RENT is Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer and Tony Award winning musical, one of the longest running shows on Broadway.For passionate fans of Rent--the popular Broadway rock musical that updated La Boheme with electric guitars, steel drums, strippers, and drag queens--Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway is a must-have.Written and composed by Jonathan Larson (who died suddenly of an aortic aneurysm just before the show premiered), Rent follows an absurdly clean-cut gaggle of hipster artists who, after having been squatting in a run-down building for a year, are now being told they have to pay that rent by the building's owner, a former friend. At least, that's the plot point that launches everything; really, the musical is about modern romance, grappling with AIDS, and celebrating the creative spirit. This film documents the last performance of the Broadway production, which ran for 12 years. Though the aggressive camera moves and sometimes frenetic editing seem intended to make the film feel less stagebound, this Rent first and foremost captures the stage experience. The production's raw set and self-conscious theatricality (which highfalutin' theater folk might call "Brechtian") creates genuine show-biz razzle-dazzle and helps distract from some of the cliches in the musical itself. There are no famous faces (the closest is Tracie Thoms, who played the same role, the lesbian lover of a performance artist, in the movie version), but the cast is solid and exuberant, throwing themselves wholeheartedly into the show's unapologetically sincere paeans to life and love. --Bret Fetzer
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