RENT: La Vie Boheme Lyrics 

why is it okay for schools to teach about things like AIDS and drug use and addiction, but if you want to perform it, its a big no-no??

There is a school version but the all of the F bombs were taken out and no gay/lesbian kissing and Angel is a girl not a drag queen... so actually its not even Rent anymore

this song makes me sooo grateful, for art and music and theatre and love.... this song is a celebration of life - thank you jonathan larson

mark's "dearly beloved" solo at the beginning is what gives me oxygen.

RENT - my absolute favourite - loved this version, saw the show twice in Melbourne, Australia. Can't speak more highly of the whole show. Have to say I bought the CD at the show and only really know this version. The live performance was sensational - couldn't actually bring myself to watch the movie version. La Vie Boheme!!! - absolute favourite - love love love it

I LOVE THIS MARK'S VOICE SO MUCH. IT'S SO GOOD AND VERY DISTINCT

My life aim is to learn all the words to this song

I like that Mark stayed pretty consistent, but this performance sounds so different from the ones I'm used to.

the sound of ice tea being stirred is a very esoteric sound, mind you.

my hs did sweeney todd last year and this year we are doing rent lol

Don't call them stupid. It was a perfectly good question. As a minor, this is one of my favorite musicals and I feel that although it has MATURE (not inappropriate) content, it has very good themes.

My school did RENT. Funny thing is, they did the school edition. However, we had a last performance and during that last performance, we did it for the school, we put everything BACK into La Vie Boheme and all the other parts too...

I love this play! I've watched it eight times in the last two days!

THOSE LYRICS ARE INCREDIBLE.

My wife jus introduced me to this song and the musical and I cannot wait to see it. I wish someone would bring it back to the stage.

The local public high school in my area actually performed Rent this past year... It all just depends on the school and whether the authoritative figures think it's appropriate.

"You bet your ass"

I prefer the movie version of this song... but broadway overall is SO much better

............ Those. Are. My. Absolute. Favorites. No Joke. My Top 3. Congratulations, you have won the internet -bows to you-

SWEENEY TODD!!!!!!! i could never live up to my expectations on that show. maybe rent.

OMG ANOTHER REPO! AND RENT LOVER!!! YOU ARE AWESOME!!!

You should move to my high school they've done Sweeney Todd and Rent school edition :)

I LOVE RENT more than anything!!!!!!!!!1:)

Great job on the lyrics! I love how you added who said what... That's pretty awesome.

I want to go into a cafe and sing this. Like, now.

It's the Original Broadway Cast, muchhh longer and has more stuff in it. the movie version combines la vie boheme, i should tell you, and la vie boheme all in one.

"HELLO SIR!!" I keep laughing at that part.

0:26 the entrance for bennys part

I love this movie....wish so bad I could see the play. it sounds so much better.

Join a theatre group that's what I did =D

I Love Mark Cohen!!!!!

i love when benny goes "Waiter, Waiter, Waiter!" when he has had enough :L

Man I wish schools would let us do Rocky Horror!

Galileo has locked in his answer at Hollister during basketball.

"i would like to propose a toast to Maureen's noble try. it went well" "go to hell?'

Galileo was the first person to love Mondays!!!!!!!!

@figglesnorf9 My school did RENT Three years ago. If we could get approved, then I bet yours could. Good luck! ;D

I Feel Your Pain! I hear everyone listening to LMFAO and im thinking:"Jesus, dont these ppl dont know what good music is!?"i know most of the songs by heart and i could audition for Mark's part but im too young!

Holy Trinity (a school on long island) did Sweeney Todd this spring! I did H2$

@figglesnorf9 no my school did this last year for the spring musical it all depends on the school board

The high school I'm going into next year is most likely doing it! I'm gonna try our for Colombia! ;)

August 12th is "The Sword in the Stone" debut (the first day)

what are you talking about. every legitimate theater person on the planet knows this musical.

"as long as the honor it correctly" being the operative phrase. But Yeah.. I can understand your sentiment.

0:00 through 0:18 is one of my faves parts...beside 0:00 through 8:03 X3

And Chicago!

Napoleon has locked in at basketball.

RENT does have a school adaption! They cut out Contact though.

Hey, if you don't mind me asking, which version is this? I'm trying to find it elsewhere but yours seems to be the only video I could find it in! The others are from the movie but I assumed this one was [but it sounds different]

Mario ducked when he saw his best friend, Link, with braces at high school in Ninth Grade. Narcissus fell in love with his reflection in the pool.

My High School is doing rent.

My school's doing rent ^.^

@figglesnorf9 There's a highschool version of RENT.

THOMPS UP IF U HAVE THE MOVIE

@figglesnorf9 there is a schools edition. you could always ask.

@figglesnorf9 We sing rent songs all the time in class XD Teachers get annoyed because two girls and i sing it all the time or atleast we did. Was awesome, we were in psych and the prof was talking about something, when A girl was like akita, and me and another girl shouted out avita, and went into the song XD good memories.

@caitibug95 I know right? If they asked me which character I wanted to play it'd be Mark. It sucks. Oh well.

Link says, "I want braces!" to Luigi, his nemesis on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012

@figglesnorf9 well my school didnt censor anything lol we cursed and everything

Why do all the best musicals have to be "too mature" for high school? Its not like most of us dont already know about all of this stuff!! RENT, SWEENEY TODD, AND REPO THE GENETIC OPERA, would all make great plays in high schools, as long as they could honor it correctly ;)

is this the play version or the movie cuz it doesnt sound liek the movies version at all

We are doing the "School version" of rent but fuck it I love this musical tooooo much!!!! I cant wait i wanna audition for Mark (=

@AskMarielle I think it is supposed to :)

I love you.... just saying

rent isn't a musical its a rock opera

@figglesnorf9 There is a school version. It's cleaner. We did it for the summer musical a couple years ago, so maybe you could do it it your principal is open-minded.

@dancelvr5003 Baggage means issues, AZT is an AIDS medication that they took in the movie.

Is that font papyrus??

Ned Pyat is lazy at dinnertime in November

there is a school version i believe.

my school did sweeney todd & rent.. haha

@yaya284 SAME HERE

0:00

ok so I was specifically looking for the og broadway version and this is what popped up... is this it? are you sure? Mimi doesn't sound like Renee at all!

Taye Diggs is such a better Benny. and Idina Menzel (his wife :p) is the best Maureen ever!! :D

Is this the original cast?

@dancelvr5003 as in problems

@figglesnorf9 lol yea were only awesome in our theater and arts everything else sucks lol

@GoldDustedTears I think it's mostly because we SHOULDN'T know about this stuff, despite the fact that we do. The school should not be encouraging the use of mary j, y'know? lol

Too bad that this musical isnt better known :(

I think theyre said to be too "mature" for high school as an excuse, so that the greatest muscials wont be ruined by high school students, no offence

@figglesnorf9 story of my life

@teamsongz4lyfe No, it's mucho.

its cant have a scene not cant have a seat... i think

peewee herman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really wanna play Mark sometime in my life... But I'm a girl...

To Absolut*

I'm doing rent for my high school play ?

New schools suck we're not allowed to even listen this

@DefineNormal94 yea they would rather hand out condoms and tell us not to have sex at the same time

Idina's voice crack tho

Napoleon, Maximilien, and Jacques are lazy @ pep rallies in High School

@Lyria0chan Umm... Otakuism is not really a good thing..

I think that the movie's version is better. I know that this is the original version but the movie seems to have more feeling.

Ugh this was when they all smoked their voices sound like garbage then (they got better, except Daphne's)

If you're in 7th grade why are you cursing? Please act your age and talk like a 7th grader should. It doesn't impress the older kids, it just makes them think you're obnoxious. Sincerely, a Junior in high school (16)