It has just recently been announced that the Broadway play, RENT will be closing after 12 years on Broadway. Why? I'm not really sure of that question. It presents a powerful message and a goose-bump worthy songs that every type of person can (hopefully) relate to. Instead, new up and comers like "Legally Blonde: The Musical" are huge hits and RENT just isn't making the cut anymore. What does that go to show you? That beautiful ditzy blondes can definitely go to Harvard and people with AIDS just don't interest people anymore? I sure hope that's not the case. RENT going away is losing a huge art form made up of different people who all share the same hope: love. On June 1st, the original cast of RENT will gather for the last time to perform one of my favorite plays of all time. I would kill (well, maybe not THAT literally) to see the last showing of RENT. I can't really see it going away FOREVER though.. I mean, really? They are NEVER EVER going to show RENT again? Hmmm.. I sure hope they're lying.
Here's a link of the producer of RENT and his tearful synapsis of what will forever be known as one of the longest and most memorable playing shows on Broadway: www.siteforrent.com
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