After seeing my sadness over not getting to go see RENT while it was in Charlotte, when it seemed like everybody else I knew was going, my dear sweet cousin came through for me. Katie went with friends on Thursday night. I was playfully giving her a hard time on Friday and she said she had a coupon for tickets for Sunday night. SOOOO.....on Friday, she bought tickets for the two of us to go to the last Charlotte performance!!!!! I was about to burst out of my skin! I was SOOO excited! :)
RENT was the last activity of Stephanie's Weekendpalooza! Katie met me at my house and we headed out for Ovens Auditorium. We went to will call for our tickets and then ventured out to find food. We ended up in Sketchville, USA at a Wendy's. Needless to say, we did NOT get out of the car. We did the drive thru. We took our snacks back to our great parking space and ate in the car. Where we were safe. :)
The performance was AMAZING. Did I say that already? AMAZING!!!! Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp were on the tour playing Roger and Mark, the roles they originated on Broadway. They were AMAZING! That, in itself, was exciting enough for me. Mimi was played by the understudy, Karmine Alers, who was playing Mimi when RENT closed on Broadway last year. She, too, was AMAZING! In fact, the whole cast was AMAZING!
PHENOMENAL, even!
Everybody should see this show. It's so so so good! Actually, let me amend that statement. Everybody should NOT see this show. 10 year olds (like the one that sat in front of me) should NOT see this show. It's amazing, it's wonderful, it's beautiful. It is NOT child-appropriate. I have serious concerns about the parenting skills of a parent that would bring a child to see this show. If you're reading this and you don't know about RENT, perhaps you should Google it. Rea about the characters and the plots and the issues of the show. NOT child-appropriate material. Seriously.
If RENT is in a place near you, I highly suggest you see it. It's definitely worth it. I've been humming all day. :)
AHHHHHH NO DAY BUT TODAY!
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I also laughed the entire way through the blog due to the Sketchville, USA thing and the "child friendly" content.
Last time I checked, drag queens, lesbians, sexual songs, and bare behinds did not fall into the "G" rating.
A 10 year old at RENT?? Parenting FAIL!
ReplyDeleteSeriously. I'm not SURE that she was 10, but she definitely was not old enough to need a bra. And as far as I'm concerned, if you're not old enough to need a bra, you're not old enough for RENT.
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