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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Friday, June 10, 2005 - 12:23 am
The trailer for Rent is online now!!! It looks so incredibly good!!! Looks like most of the original Broadway cast is back, Taye Diggs, Jesse L. Martin, Adam Pascal, Edina Menzel (Taye's wife). I'm soooooo excited!!! Best musical ever!!! Link to trailer 
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Saturday, June 11, 2005 - 10:40 pm
Oh, Wow, Meli. That is just so thrilling! What talent! And this is a movie and not a play? I wasn't even aware it had been made into a movie! Thanks so much for sharing that clip!!!!!!!!! 
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Ketchuplover
Member
08-30-2000
| Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 11:58 am
Is Frenchie in it?
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 2:33 pm
I found the website for Rent with some pictures and a great blog, but definitely not enough pictures of Taye Diggs for my appetite!
Only two of the parts are not played by the original Broadway cast, which is wonderful. Rosario Dawson is playing Mimi (I love her political activism) and there is a relative unknown playing Joanne. The singing part in the trailer towards the end was the one played by Frenchie in the stage version, which is a featured solo who also plays multiple chorus parts. In the trailer, Joanne is singing Frenchie's part.
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Reiki
Member
08-12-2000
| Sunday, June 12, 2005 - 6:31 pm
I believe Frenchie is still performing in Rent on stage. I know she was a scheduled performer at Broadway in the Alley last week.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Monday, June 13, 2005 - 12:25 pm
Thanks, Meli456. Can't watch the trailer now but I will later (I did try to see it when Playbill had a link a few weeks ago but it wouldn't work for me). I know there were concerns the cast might be too old now so I'm curious to see how it looks. I'm sure it sounds great! P.S. I could never pick just one stage musical as my favorite, lol.
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Meli456
Member
05-01-2003
| Monday, June 13, 2005 - 1:10 pm
Anytime Calamity! The trailer is just awesome. Funny that you should mention the ages of the cast -- the only one that looks any older than before is Adam Pascal (Roger). But even back then, he had that craggly look going on. He sings like an angel, though, I really couldn't imagine anyone else playing Roger. The rest of them look the same! P.S. backatcha... Okay, really my favorite musical is tied between Rent and Les Miz, but since Les Miz the movie was due out in 1992 I'm a little bitter about them leading me on for 12 years!!
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Saxywildcat
Member
05-30-2005
| Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 11:01 am
Just figured I'd add my two cents in here. I am another musical fanatic and I love seeing all of these musicals come to screen (except I really wish they would have brought in Michael Crawford for Phantom, but that's besides the point, and not Rent related). I do have to say, nothing beats seeing something on the stage, and I have seen Rent twice. The trailer looks like there's something good there. Thanks to Meli for sharing the trailer link!
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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Saturday, July 02, 2005 - 11:07 pm
can not wait to see RENT - i love musicals as it is - and crave anything made for the silver screen (Carousel, West Side Story, king and i, sound of music, fiddler, oklahoma, etc etc) but i would have to say that the two "modern musicals" that i fell in love with over the soundtracks years before seeing them on stage are Rent and Jekyll and Hyde and so i am just thrilled that RENT will be a movie - and until now i never even knew that all the orginial cast on my CD were people i see on TV and movies all the time now humming....Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Moments So Dear Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes How Do You Measure - Measure A Year? In Daylights - In Sunsets In Midnights - In Cups Of Coffee In Inches - In Miles In Laughter - In Strife In - Five Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Six Hundred Minutes How Do You Measure A Year In The Life How About Love? How About Love? How About Love? Measure In Love Seasons Of Love Seasons Of Love...... ironically, i got the soundtrack after hearing "one song" on a segment Primetime Live (ABC) had on RENT - and it was about 3 years before i saw the stage version - just like with Jekyll and Hyde and Chicago - saw those on Rosie O'Donnell and bought the CDs because they were so moving and then saw them on stage/screen after years of knowing all the songs
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 12:26 pm
I read an article last week that Karen Gabay & Raymond Rodriguez, who used to be with Cleveland Ballet, may appear in a sequence in the Rent movie, dancing the tango, so that's another incentive for me to see this film!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - 12:51 pm
Ohhh, this looks so good; I can hardly wait. Thanks for the links, Meli.
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