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  • Benny is rushing, **Bohemia, everyone else is amazing!

  • The guy who plays Mark is really really really good. Good job ti all them

  • I'm glad schools are doing this! The message is the same they just made it so parents wouldn't flip out. Everything'a ok guys.

  • I love how they smack her ass rather than moon it!

  • I thought all the 'kid-friendly' editing was done well. When things could be edited in such a way to maintain the song's integrity, It was done. but it wasn't just censored into oblivion. I felt the alterations were respectfully handled by someone who loved the original.

    Oh yes, and an excellent performance as well. Mustn't forget that.

  • and..."inability to make a connection"? xDDD lol. I snerked.

  • Lovely performance. Maureen and Mimi were great, I adored Angel, Collins had the right presence, Roger's gorgeous, but....Mark's voice just sounded pretty nasally at times. Other times, he sounded AWESOME, but just...really nasally at others. Also, I would have preferred some more table-dancing from Mark, Angel, and Mimi - their solo dances were lacking in energy.

  • PS: "Roger" is really cute! ... Had to say xD

  • I applaud the boy who did Angel! Not many guys would have the guts to do him.. her =)

  • I love you guys!

  • Why's everyone hating on this? I think it's fine to introduce Rent to younger people, it has an amazing message, and taking out a few more controversial parts isn't gonna kill anyone. And y'all need to stop being so snobby about critiquing these kids, it isn't Broadway. I'm blown away by all their voices and performances.

  • aww cute roger haha looks like this guy named Skylar at mah school...

  • To make a connection....HA HA! lol

  • the chick who plays maureen is awesome

  • WHY IS COLLINS WHITE?

  • i wish my school did rent:[ i love the musical and my friends are always begging me to do the school musicals

  • I love the idea of a school friendly RENT, because for some kids this could be the only chance to be a part of such an amazing musical. Yes it isn't the same because they altered some lyrics, but it's still delivering the same message and I think you can remove words here and there and maintain the integrity of the piece.

  • i love 11:35 thru 2:30

  • everyone in this is so good! favorite that ive seen of a school by far for this song.

  • Send these kids off to Broadway -- but I don;t think think that RENT was a good show for them :l

  • ok I love Marks voice... plus hes cute lol... my favorite show ever and yall did it justice :)

  • it's just not as funny without all the inappropriate lines. Seems rather silly to do a censored version.

  • Mimi is amazing!

  • Rogers cute!

  • The Roger reminds me of Zac Efron? O_o

  • Why did they keep "Mucho Masturbation" and change "dildos"?

  • this i sooo good.

  • censoring isn't bohemian...ohhh high school version. Good job though guys!!

  • I love the Maureen! She's so funny!

  • Boweemia? BoHEmia. Just sayin'.

    And the Mimi and Maureen are the best!

  • It annoyed me when Benny didn't pronouce the H in Bohemia.

  • it's evocative, not provocative.

  • mimi and rodger r great in this, and maureen is hilarious. way 2 go guys, this is great 4 a school production =)

  • vocally great. choreography was pretty good too

  • They cut out Maureen and Joanne's second verse....Not cool. :(

  • Wow really good!

  • This is a REALLY bad song for kids to be singing. Wow.

  • It's not like they've edited and sensored it actually, MTI have. In the School Edition, a lot of the words have been cut out, but that's not really the fault of the performers or the director is it? I'll admit 'make a connection' sounds stupid and random, and 'hold and erection' makes more sense, but it's one line in what is still a pretty good performance considering.

  • I want to go to this school!!!

  • YOU COULDN'T PAY!

    oh ya.

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  • not bad really at all.. well done guys xxxx

  • I guess they got the idea of it...

  • I honestly Love love LOVE this musical. i wish my high school would do it. i love the message it sends: treat people on how they act, not what they look like, theire sextuallity, or what diseases they have. and that theres "no day but today" dont hang in the futer or past, but spend the time around the people you love while you can. Love rent, this is defenatly one of the best casts i have seen for a high school production...

  • one of the better school productions!

  • they person playing benny is not saying bohema right its BO-HE-ME-A not BO-EEEEE-ME-a

  • Roger and Mark are the only good ones

  • Wow Mark is amazing! These kids are so talented! Mimi's great too!

  • you can say much masterbation but you can't say dildo. wtf

  • Aha, Roger picks up the camera and plays with it!

  • wow you guys have no rhythm and those arent even the right moves!!! stupid asses...

  • maureen's to...peppy.

    Roger's got a killer voice.

    i don't like mimi's pants....

    benny's voice is too meek.

    and they sped it up too much

    i hate school boards....this could have been a great show.

    i'm sad they cut the mooning....

    okay. i'm done complaining...

  • The chorus is AMAZING in this. Not to mention everyone seems so confident and the solos are amazingly done for a high school cast. Congrats :)

  • The way the waiter was singing 'you sit all night, you never buy' brought a smile to my face. B'awww

  • What the hell is going on with the costumes? Sloppy. If you can't pull off a production of Rent without changing the ENTIRE meaning, spare us and don't do it at all.

    "Inability to make a connection in the high holy days" WHAT THE HELL? You can say "masturbation" but you can't say "erection"? I'm surprised they had the balls to say "actual reality, act up, fight AIDS!" and not "fight the flu!".

  • wow, i hate the schools version.

    dildo's and erections for the win.

  • collins pisses me off. too cocky to suit his character

  • great job :D

  • Vocals are Brilliant but I think the scene could have a bit more energy. But overall a great performance! :D

  • I love this Angel!

  • they took out dildos but not masterbastion wow.

  • i swear to god that guitar was one of the guitar hero guitars

  • Benny needed work. Mark wasnt my favorite. I''m completely in love with this MIMI! I'm gay but that chick would turn me!! haha jk But Shes just so Perky! I love that they chaged dildos to latex and kept in Masturbation. They really didn't change much!! "Make a connection" I hate that the school eition changes that part though.

  • duuuuuuude. your guys' mark and mimi. YES. <3

    also, your angel is TAAAALL! i love it!! :D

  • where is the "bisexuals-trysexuals... to sodomie it's between god and me"-part??? don't you think it's a little hypocritical to take these parts out of a musical that's supposed to be about tolerance, aids, homos?

    this sucks....

  • @MaePassiv its in part two...u kno how on the CD there is La Vie Boheme A and La Vie Boheme B? well this is La Vie Boheme A. in part two they have that part.

  • I love to see that a high school is doing this, but i wonder what the reacton in the community was? haha. When we did grease we got so many emails about how "sexual" it was lol

  • the entire cast is great!! What's the age range?

  • LOL. "Make a connection" instead of "Hold an erection". Although cuts suck, they made it work pretty well. The girl who plays Mimi has a great voice. Even her movements match those made my a lot of the Broadway Mimis. All in all, a pretty swell performance.

  • So they left out "bisexuals, trisexuals" and left in "much masturbation"? Odd priorities.

  • Blame MTI for that, lol.

  • These kids are so talented, but it's hard to notice with all these changes to my favorite musical.

  • i thinks it funny cause i bet 9 out of 10 people here have no idea what MTI what is!!!! lol

  • Haha, so true!

    FYI for the rest of you, MTI is Musical Theatre International, the people who own the rights to the show.

  • nice! you guys are good!

    our fall director keeps trying to get RENT but the school board won't let her.

  • this is great ! Benny, Mark, MIMIS VOICE <3 rogers HOT this is great for a schoool <333333

  • Hmmm. To edit and censor rent is kind of taking away the whole point of the play :/

  • girl playin mimi sounds bangin

  • being that they obviously have to edit some parts, im surprised and impresed with how much they were able to leave in, as well as the great performances, and the fact they were able to do it in a school setting at all

  • weird- they took out the word "dildoes" but left in "masturbation."

  • i was thinking the same thing.

  • even more interesting is that they seem to censor the word "erection" too, but still not "masturbation". could they not come up with a rhyme, perhaps?

  • @macychick And changing "erection on the high holy days" to "connection"

  • @macychick They probably couldn't come up with anything to fit there.

  • @MaryOttMusic : Pure exhilaration? Much communication? Venting our frustration? The possibilities are endless.

  • @macychick Ehh, oh well. I guess they thought that was "school appropriate" :P

  • @macychick

    going through tribulation?

    xD

    I know... I was like... WHAAA?

  • wow joanne annoys me... don't they have any african american kids at this school?

  • @TheatreFanatic4eva : Maybe there are African-American girls, but none of them auditioned for the musical. Or maybe they did, but they didn't have good singing voices. Personally, I think a black Joanne who sounds like she has a frog in her throat would be far worse than a white Joanne who has a great voice.

  • After hearing all this kid friendly whatever, I'm suprised they didn't change "wine and beer!" to "apple juice"! But seriously, making a kid version of RENT was the dumbest idea ever. You can't censor it without reducing it to one song: "Seasons of Love".

  • @WaffleTelevision You DO know what the school edition is right? It cuts out fucks and shits, and Contact is cut out. Christmas Bells is shortened by taking out Benny's solo, and I'll Cover You lost a verse. The meaning of the show is still there.

  • @WaffleTelevision they also said "ass" and hell, don't forget! :)

  • @WaffleTelevision

    honestly, this school is just bad. Sucks when it sounds like half the cast hasnt even started puberty yet

  • @WaffleTelevision as an actor in a production of RENT: School Edition, I can say it's not for kids. It's for teenagers. You might think it's the same thing, but it's not. It keeps the heart and soul of the show. I don't like it as much as I like "Normal" RENT but it's still one hell of a show to be in.

  • @WaffleTelevision I thought all the 'kid-friendly' editing was done well. When things could be edited in such a way to maintain the song's integrity, It was done. but it wasn't just censored into oblivion. I felt the alterations were respectfully handled by someone who loved the original.

  • i think that the school edition shit is unreasonable, coming from a school where some lose there virginity in the 7th grade, i think this a great show cuz it has subjects that alot of mid and high schools deal with, yes some of my friends are HIV+, BTW, this one was kind of mediocar and what the hell is up with the 8ft tall angel and only white kids? in fact, my drama teacher is thinking of doing the BROADWAY edition but before audition shes sending out letters to parents about the material.

  • this musical means soooooo much more than just a few bad words and innappropriate movement! too bad some of you havnt figured that out yet.

  • omg couldnt agree with u more!!

  • what is the problem with all you people!!!!!!!!!!!! RENT is the most brilliant, touching, beautiful, lesson for anyone to perform!!! im sooo glad that students can now actually learn something new from such a material like this!!! its important for sociaty that we do not keep this kind of stuff sheltered! so what!!! they say a couple bad words!! "oh no!! its the end of the world! ban this musical because we want a boring lifeless world!!"

  • i loved their maureen :)

  • Awesome Job!

  • Was this high school or college?

  • i just don't understand this "school" version! they aren't allowed to say dildos or erection and they cut out a whole verse (one of my faves cuz of its energy), yet they can mention masturbation and do some less-than-appropriate dace moves. seems to me there was a bit of confusion about what and what not to sensor when they made this version!

  • are you a nun? there are worse words than hell and ass.

  • I don't like that Maureen...

  • "To leather, to LATEX?" ... "Make a CONNECTION on the high holy days?" Look, if you don't like words to a song, don't do the musical... or at least change the words to something better than THAT!

  • That's the student edition's script, not the school.

  • Yeah, I'm aware of that. The school actually did a pretty good job for having to work with that kind of script. There are just some musicals that should not be done by high schools, even if there is a "School Edition" script. Rent is one of them.

  • it must have taken that guy playing angel a lot of courage

  • some musicals should just not be done by high schools.... like this, cats, les miserables.... etc

  • The production itself is fab, much better than your normal School Production, I dont like the score cute, but obvo, that has nothing to do with the school!

  • I really like that Maureen.

  • this actually REALLY good for a school version....the only criticisim (sp?) is that they did the group choreography at the start of the fast completely wrong, and maureen dropped 'to the stage', and i was sad

    but otherwise AMAZING

  • The girl who plays Mimi has a nice voice

  • to leather to latex, seriouly? lol

  • what did the sub 'to dildos' with? I can't hear

  • WIW the kid playing ROGER is HOT! lol they did really good!

  • i find it odd that they can say masterbation (sp) but cant say dildo..and the fact that joanne and maurine cant really show how they feel like in the movie..or the real broadway show..and i know its a school..but still..dont remake the best musical known to man unless you do it right...

  • i know!

  • RENT SCHOOL EDITION=BOOOO!!!!!

  • Omg, have respect. They did a wonderful job.

  • there s not alot of energy :(

  • this is pretty amazing!

  • This show looked Brilliant!! The day my school gets the balls to do this production is the day my life is OFFICIALLY complete.. RENT IS THE SHIZ!!!

  • ok i agree with you marineforcealpha, but this scence was altered and there isnt any excuse for not hearing all the words, so no words should have been taken away. that is the whole reason why it was so hard for schools to do this production because of the language and content of the play but if you take away or change the words it takes away some of the meaning of the enitre play.

  • Mark is amazing in this!

  • There is no black people. At All

  • lol, DISCRIMINATION!

  • No, but, the Mimi is Latin.

  • I know!, i think the original Mimi was the ONLY Latino, every other person who played her was black with long wavy hair.

  • I loved your Collins and your Roger. Mark was pretty good. Mimi and Maureen were okay, but better than I thought they would be, considering this is a school edition. As for Angel, I loved him. ;D How tall are you?

  • your mimi was really good. :] but it sounded like you only had a pianist as accompanyment, and that hinders the song a bit. :[

  • Omg they deleted the whole

    "bisexual trisexual ... to amphaty to antrophy ..." parts

  • I understand removing things like dildos lol but I don't see why they removed the non-straight parts :(

  • That's because it's the School Version.

  • Everyone seems uninterested in one of the most interesting scenes in the show.

    With everyone sitting at the table, and not doing something more, it really took away from the excitement.

    ...And Angel is seemingly like eight feet tall indeed...

  • You can say Mucho Masterbation, but you can't say Dildos? lol

  • Or erection! Gosh!

  • HOLY CRAP ANGEL IS LIKE 8 FEET TALL! :O

    Now that I got that out, nice job overall. Not a huge fan of your Collins though :/

  • The incredible 50-foot... Well, Angel.

  • i thought it was pretty good, considering it's a school edition of it. :)

  • You are totally right! My school wouldn't even consider doing a production of RENT!

  • in every scene of this schools performance that i've watched, their collins is being way too much of a ham. he's making it the collins show, and its not. its seems he thinks the whole show is a joke, and thats not right. i've seen this show with the original mark and rodger, and collins was not trying to steal every scene he was in. and what's this guy wearing, an afro wig? this collins is not right for the part.everyone else is good though.

  • Wow! I think they did great and Im a major fan of rent. I actually did maureen for my school. That was entertaining XD

  • the tempo is smidge too fast. Should have sung louder,amp up the energy! I'm sorry but the school edition bugs me..... they change too much.

  • ohh omg this isnt even the highschool version u can tell angel is still a crossdresser nd she's not supposedd 2 be in the hs version!

  • Angel IS supposed to be in the school edition and a cross dresser...it just depends on where the musical is being done. :)

  • yea if it's in the Bible Belt USA then Angel won't be a cross dresser ha believe me i'm smack in the mid of it... college student in the Deep South aka Mississippi...

  • ALL YOUR FEATURED SOLOISTS SO FAR AREN'T STRONG. Maureen is strong ;D. Benny, not a fan in this scene. I just need to stop watching this before my ears bleed and I end up hating RENT forever.

  • surprised they kept the mucho masturbation part...

  • why is this super fast??? and there needs to be more energy!

  • It's faster than the movie, but not faster than the Broadway show...this is just the tempo :)

    The movie kind of watered it down a lot :(

  • great job at being as unoriginal as you can be

  • you guys need to amp up the energy

    ten fold

  • im not going to lie, the guy who plays mark literally is amazing at his part. he needs to try out for tour or something for marks part!!!

  • what did they say instead of "dildoes?"

  • i think latex

  • yeah i just listened again. Thanks :)

  • Why is the tempo like double timed?

  • i like the mark's singing skills.

    I'm in love with maureen.

    this is really good, it just seems fast, even for la vie boheme

  • Haha, I love how everyone gasped when they slapped her butt!

    Great job, you guys. I just auditioned for mine today, and I'm so pumped. :)

  • the girl playing Mimi is really good.

  • Its still surprisingly raunchy for the school edition. and dont get all up in kajatheecho. Since the original company had collins, joanne, and benny all black, its okay to wonder y they arent in this edition

  • that is it! we are doing this at my school!!! we HAVE to!!!!

  • why is almost everyone white?

  • Wow. Seriously? You're really going to waste your time asking a question like this? For one thing, is that supposed to be derogatory? You cant judge this kind of company for not being diverse, most community or especially high schools aren't. Next time, think of a comment thats not as vapid, and stop yourself from sounding like a racist.

  • I wasn't being racist I was honestly asking, because it seemed weird to me...

  • maybe because the people living in the area are white? retard

  • It's all about who's comfortable with acting. In my drama club there was only 6 black kds, three of them who were mixed. there were others who came and went, but that's different. I mean we're doing Grease next year and I can almost Guarantee that Danny is going to be black. It also depends on who can act and who can sing. The audience will forgive an actor for acting well and not having a good voice than vice versa.

  • Does mark realize he ios pointing to the wrong person for "instead of a them"????