we're measuring in months, we didn’t have long at all. One week
of glorious memories is will be over after the first week in
June, and I personally don’t know if there can be anything like
it again. But if we're measuring in love, Rent will last
forever. For us, the lucky ones who get to see or perform in it,
there will always be the power of memory to recall how we felt
every time the lights went down, and it began again. For now, we
get to celebrate. So laugh, cry, scream your heart every
performance in June, but remember this. For us, it isn’t over by
a long shot. The story of RENT never end
The people who Rent is meant for are the ones that sit
in the audience and are truly changed by what they see.
As Adam Pascal said, about the closing on Broadway, it
doesn’t matter how many times you see it if it changes
you.
Jonathan Larson had a vision of a bohemian sort-of-paradise,
where people danced on the tables, and sang about love, backed
up everything they sang about with their actions, and I think
that we can all take a little bit of this away from Rent. A
little bit of Mimi's fire, and Marks devotion wouldn’t go amiss
in anybody. We can take an example from Roger, who kept going
until he wrote his 'one great song', and Collins, who's beliefs
seep through into everything he does....who has his dreams, and
wont allow himself to be manipulated by the views of mass
society. We can make like Maureen...take a stand and fight for
every single little thing we believe in (in the most hilarious
way possible.) And then there’s Angel, who loved
unconditionally.....who didn’t judge, who was original and
passionate, and gave all of himself in everything he did. We all
have a lot to learn from him
