In the first public showing of RENT the musical, the day after Johnathan Larson passed, all the actors decided to do a table read in his honor. However apparently during La Vie Boheme, the actors playing Angel and Mimi couldn't help themselves and started getting up on the table and dancing during their number, and they finished the song. During the intermission, the cast decided to perform the musical as normal, with dancing, and the rest is history.
As a Sharpay Evans of my high school. And president of the drama club, and lead in every School Musical since 8th grade. No no no no no no no no there is a time and a place to perform and random act like this I just not ethical in real life LOL in musical theater Wonderland there ethical but I someone who sings continuously all the time even this would get annoying LOL no I would have never condone this to my drama department LOL.... that being said YES ID TIP THEM 100$ BILL clap and tell em great job. 😁😒💖
@@sw9618 search "Today for you" also from Rent; Angel (the one who asks who died) was paid to play drums so loud that a dog would die, and then that dog turns out to be Akita, the one the black guy tañks about
This movie was on TV randomly one day one weekend while I was home from Job Corps, specifically right at this scene. I had no context, no understanding or previous awareness of this existence (in exception of the occasional A Capella rendition of Seasons of Love I heard on the radio from a college station I got only at my vacation home) and I watched with absolute fascination, of this number, how everyone moved, what everyone was saying (even though it was at such a pace I wasn't able to keep up) and just loved every moment of it. It changed my life. I had never wanted to live any other way than these people.
OMG - This legit use to be my FAVOURITE Movie when I was 12. I still remember EVERY WORD. Eben through I had no idea what most of it meant as a pre teen lol.
The composition, the rapid fire references, the way it’s staged and blocked. It’s a silly number in many ways but it has a message and it’s very entertaining! No, not silly in a negative way.
Saw this play once and it was amazing! This scene in particular I couldn’t believe how well it turned out! There’s so much going on all over the place and yet it all fits together perfectly and flows
I have been to 7 plays and one in Stamford Ct back in the day and still love this musical...way to go Koende88 thank you for posting this timeless musical.
Who died? Our Akita Evita You make fun, yet I'm the one Attempting to do some good Or do you really want a neighborhood Where people piss on your Stoop every night? Bohemia, Bohemia's A fallacy in your head This is Calcutta Bohemia is dead Dearly beloved we gather here to say our goodbyes Here she lies, no one knew her worth The late great daughter of Mother Earth On these nights when we Celebrate the birth In that little town of Bethlehem We raise our glass, you bet your ass to La vie Boheme To days of inspiration Playing hookey, making Something out of nothing (la vie Boheme) The need to express To communicate (la vie Boheme) To going against the grain Going insane, going mad (la vie Boheme) To loving tension, no pension (la vie Boheme) To more than one dimension (la vie Boheme) To starving for attention Hating convention, hating pretension (la vie Boheme) Not to mention of course Hating dear old Mom and Dad (la vie Boheme) To riding your bike (la vie Boheme) Midday past the three-piece suits (la vie Boheme) To fruits, to no absolutes To Absolute, to choice (la vie Boheme) To the Village Voice (la vie Boheme) To any passing fad To being an us for once, instead of a them La vie Boheme (la vie Boheme) Hey Mister, she's my sister So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad Three soy burger dinner, two tofu dog platter And one pasta with meatless balls Eww It tastes the same If you close your eyes And thirteen orders of fries Is that it here? Wine and beer! To hand-crafted beers Made in local breweries To yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese To leather, to dildos, to curry vindaloo To Huevos Rancheros and Maya Angelou Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion Creation, vacation Mucho masturbation Compassion, to fashion, to passion when it's new To Sontag To Sondheim To anything taboo Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunnigham and Cage Lenny Bruce Langston Hughes To the stage To Uta, to Buddha, Pablo Neruda, too Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow To blow off Auntie Em La vie Boheme Sisters? We're close Brothers! Bisexuals, trisexuals, homo sapiens Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men Pee Wee Herman German wine, turpetine, Gertrude Stein Antoniotti, Bertolucci, Kurosawa Carmina Burana To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstacy Vaclav Havel, The Sex Pistols, 8BC To no shame, never playing the Fame Game To marijuana To sodomy, it's between God and me To S & M Waiter, waiter, waiter, waiter! La vie Boheme In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromptu salon Will commence immediately following dinner Maureen Johnson, just Back from her spectacular one-night engagement at the eleventh street lot Will perform Native American tribal chants Backwards through her vocoder While accompanying herself on the electric cello Which she ain't never studied And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability To hold an erection on the high holy days And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap Will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds Of iced tea being stirred And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song That doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Waltz!" Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions From Paris while accompanying herself on the ten gallon plastic pickle tub And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist Including the tale of the successful reprogramming of the M.I.T. Virtual reality equipment to self-destruct, as it broadcasts the words "Actual reality, act up, fight AIDS" Excuse me, did I do something wrong? I get invited, then ignored all night long I've been trying, I'm not lying No one's perfect, I've got baggage Life's too short, babe, time is flying I'm looking for baggage that goes with mine I should tell you I've got baggage too Should tell you Baggage Wine and beer! A.z.t. break You? Me, you? Mimi
My niece was 4 when this came out. Didn't take her to see it. But I did get the DVD and my sister (her mom) and I was watching it and she sat with her and when the "mucho masterbation" part came on something just came over my niece (don't know what it was) but for some reason whenever she wanted to watch it... She would never say "TeeTee can we watch RENT?" She would say (with her little squeaky, cute voice as loud as she could for some reason) "TeeTee!!!!! Play "MUCHO MASTERBATION"" and imagine a 4 yr old asking a question like this in PUBLIC!!!!!! OMG!!!! People would look at me like "WTF?!!!" and I'd have to say OH GOD!!!! NO! NO!! NO!!! It's not what you think.... She wants to watch RENT (Like that would make it any better!!!! LoL)
I saw this when I was about seven years old and I would sing the soundtrack out loud in the car (including saying the word fuck lol). This movie actually taught me about the LGBTQ community and drugs and it effects. This was one of my favorite movies growing up
I never bought Rosario Dawson as Mimi. She's too pretty, too delicate, too doll, too Hollywood. I think Larson meant for Mimi to be vulnerable but with a rough edge, with some toughness too. I can't explain it..
@@Dehslash9 If you're curious I suggest you watch the movie; I'm sure you can find it online. But this specific song is a cultural reflection of American life in the late 80s. Jonathan Larson loosely based the plot on La Vie Boheme. It's difficult to explain.
@@sw9618 Actually the original musical never mention any years so look for context clues and it can easily shift that timeline Only reason for this being 1989 to 1990 is cuz of the movie
@@sky3670 characters. Maureen gaslights, mimi is trying to cope up a recently sober man becuase of her nihilistic hedonism, mark is romanticizing the poor for his art. He quit his job because of his bad art. Angel killed a dog for money, angel is best character, Joanne and roger dont know how to cut people out fo there lives, maureen is only here because she wants people to go to her bad performance. And also Mimi gets cured of aidsitis from a song.
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