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Wait, didn't Roger miss some of the lines in One Song Glory?

@RThyrring Haha yes. Yay live theatre!

Angel's got a good beat going there.

I love roger's voice! Although you guys are lacking diversity!

@SuperFjean We can't really control the diversity of people who auditioned...and I've explained before that the script itself does not list race.

supersingerevan 3 months ago 3

As I said before, AMAZING vocals!

Erynnn32 3 months ago

I love "Light My Candle" is such a perfect song, well crafted and played...I love the interplay between the characters! A perfect boy-meets-girl kinda song.

MDkid1 5 months ago in playlist More videos from supersingerevan

roger totally stole the show, amazing voice that I didn't expect to come out of him.

hockeygirl1222 5 months ago 3

@hockeygirl1222 Someone's got a crush, I think ;)

supersingerevan 5 months ago

@supersingerevan haha yeah i do got a little crush on him.

hockeygirl1222 5 months ago

@hockeygirl1222 I don't blame you, he is kinda cute!

MDkid1 5 months ago in playlist More videos from supersingerevan

Angel- perfect, so adorable :D I know how you feel, just because casting doesn't quite follow the script doesn't mean you shouldn't do it anyway, heck, my school just finished running a production of "Oliver!" with an all-girls cast, in a single-sex school. Does that mean we can only do all-girl productions! No! We did Joseph the year before, too. So I think it only matters about the talent, when you're casting for a show. (Unless it's Hairspray, I guess.)

I'm really enjoying watching this! <3

spotonigiri 6 months ago

@spotonigiri Thank you! And also Ragtime :P

supersingerevan 6 months ago

Gee Kameron is a talent. Watch him do Paul's monologue from A Chorus Line. Exceptional. Is this a professional, semi-prof company or enthusiastic & accomplished amateurs?

stnz6 8 months ago

@stnz6 Just an amateur production! But we like to think we hold ourselves to a professional standard, since most of us want to do theater for a living.

supersingerevan 8 months ago

Isn't Collins supposed to be black?

xxkewldudexx 1 year ago

@xxkewldudexx Actually, in the script, none of the characters in Rent are ever given racial identities. That was simply how Broadway interpreted the characters.

supersingerevan 1 year ago 3

@xxkewldudexx yea and so is jonna

styanddru 1 year ago

@styanddru Again, there is no racial description for any character, at any point in the script. That was just how Broadway did it.

supersingerevan 1 year ago 2

@supersingerevan Look, I respect the right of your theatre company to cast things however the heck you want, but 'that was just how Broadway did it' is rather disingenuous -- Jonathan Larson chose the actors who *created* the characters, and he chose black actors for Benny, Collins and Joanne, and Latina/o actors for Mimi & Angel. You're welcome to differ from his vision, but admit that his vision existed & is known, and you're choosing to do something different.

dionycat 7 months ago

@dionycat Is there documented evidence to support the thought that Jonathan Larson picked those actors? Usually the playwright is not in charge of deciding who plays the roles, the director is.

supersingerevan 7 months ago

@supersingerevan Good question! I was a complete Rent fanatic back in the day, and I definitely *remember* seeing & reading interviews with Rapp, Pascal &c. that indicated that when it was being workshopped Larson was heavily involved in the direction/casting -- like, I remember Pascal saying that Larson really loved Pascal's voice but was going nuts because he wouldn't keep his eyes open while singing. But that's just my memory & could be fallible.

dionycat 7 months ago

@supersingerevan I'll have to dig through my old stuff & see if I saved any of those interviews. And I've been meaning to read Rapp's memoir for a while now, I suspect it'll clarify since he was involved in the show from the very beginning.

dionycat 7 months ago

@dionycat Yeah, I'll have to re-watch a couple Rent documentaries to see about that. Even so, workshops are different than a Broadway production. During workshops, you're right that writers have more say as to who gets cast, although it is still the director's decision. For major productions, casting's usually out of the writer's hand except for feedback and suggestions. And that aside, Larson probably didn't pick them because of their race. He picked them for their characters and voices.

supersingerevan 7 months ago

@supersingerevan Well, I disagree that race isn't part of their characters -- the audience expectations of & reactions to a black man or Latina woman are *very* different than their reactions to a white man or woman. A black New York lawyer is a different person with a different experience of the world than a white New York lawyer; a black college professor who leaves his tenure-track job is doing something different than a white college professor who does the same.

dionycat 7 months ago

@supersingerevan And a person of colour watching Rent who sees that the white characters are in the minority is going to have a different experience of the show & the urban environment it reflects than a person of colour watching Rent who sees that almost everyone is white. I'm not saying that choosing to cast mostly white actors is *wrong*, but it is *different* & changes the experience of the audience -- & I think denying that is naive, although likely coming from well-meant colour blindness.

dionycat 7 months ago

@dionycat I agree that different races of the characters can change the way the character is interpreted, but I am sure you are an experienced enough actor to recognize that there's no such thing as one correct interpretation of the character. The characters were written fairly open-ended, leaving lots of room for the actors/directors to interpret the characters as they see fit.

Of course our production is different, we meant it that way. And the casting is "no black actors auditioned." :P

supersingerevan 7 months ago