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  • That wasn't as bad as people said it was.

  • ... I liked it :)

  • Who the heck is this guy singing with Joey fatone?...JOEY IS THE BEST..

  • @MrBOBBYOO6 Try reading the description of the video.

  • Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will always be the best roger and mark no one can do it better than them :)

  • @deppluver66 except Will Chase and Adam Kantor who are the best Roger and Mark and can do it better with one hand tied behind their backs.

  • What I dont get is why people like Jeremy Kushner and Sebastian here went from Rent to Jersey Boys?? They both are much better at Jersey Boys honestly.

  • @subwayeatfresh45 I do agree that Sebastian is a better Bob Gaudio than Roger, but I honestly like Jeremy as Roger way better than Tommy DeVito.

  • @AnthonyRappluver

    Joey isn't too terrible as Mark(I've seen a lot of Marks who are actually worse) but his vocals/character are overshadowed by the horrible actor playing Roger. I think that's the worst portrayal I've ever seen of Roger.

  • does anyone have or know were i can get a copy of the whole show with joey as mark. My best friend luvs him I'm looking to buy her a copy for her birthday.

  • Listen. Anthony and Adam were the ORIGINAL. So they obviously defined the roles. But these two aren't that bad. No, they're not Anthony and Adam. And no one will ever sound like they did in the movie where they RECORDED and edited the voices. This is LIVE and honestly isn't too bad.

  • alright. no offence, but joey was not my favorite mark ever. i really love sebastian's roger though. personally i really love s.a.

  • at 1:55 they changed something.

  • @hididdleydee yea, mark quitting would not have made sense out of context... so they changed it. it's still weird though.

  • Wow Joey Fatone looks so different than he did during his N*Sync days... I really wanted to see him the Broadway version I saw- but I think I'll always envision Anthony Rapp as Mark.

  • I have to echo a sentiment a lot of people have expressed here - their voices do not mesh well. Some people just don't sound good together. But separately, they're great. But, of course, I'm spoiled by the movie version with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal...

  • @NikLotus84 The Broadway show's even better. You should check it out someday. The original cast recording is unmatched.

  • I think Joey would be better as Roger myself, but he does a great Mark.

  • They really dont sound good together. I never saw them in person but Joey just seems weird as Mark and Sebastian doesnt seem like Roger, hes pretty good in Jersey Boys though, and speaking of Jersey Boys, Jeremy Kushnier was amazing Roger

  • OMG ESPA ROBA SINGS 8D! (YuGiOh) THIS IS EPIC X3!!! SQUEE I love Sebastian Arcelus!!

  • joey is a pretty good mark, he may not be anthony rapp but we can't always compare to the original. they're 2 different people with different voices.

  • That was fucking awful.

  • ...I actually like Sebastian Arcelus as Roger. He's a great singer and actor. But I do like him Better as Fiyero (with SJB as Elphaba) I gotta say.

  • What the hell kind of riff is Fatone trying to do at :20?

  • i LOVE sebastian as Fiyero not as Rodger!!!

  • wow Joey is a little flat

  • did he forget the words or did his mic cut out. lol. either way nice performance.

  • @dsmsbest lol his mic cut out, because it does it before the obvious one if you listen carefully. hope this helps :]

  • I was lucky enough to see Rent a few days ago with Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal reprising their roles. I've seen others in the roles of Mark and Roger and no one really compares. I honestly think Adam and Anthony just have a strong connection with the play and it really shows in their preformances

  • @Muzikfrk888 I saw them in Sacramento. They were amazing. I was singing the music constantly for a week after seeing it live.

  • no one will ever be a better mark than anthony rapp and there will never be a better roger then adam pascal

  • @bloop413 You obviously havent heard many different actors. I used to think the same thing until I saw Harley Jay play Mark. Adam is still my favorite roger, but until you see them in a show you can't tell what they bring to the show

  • @bloop413 i honestly think the closing cast was wayyyyyy better than the original cast.. love adam and anthony for sticking with the show from day one but still, i dont think they were the best

  • @bloop413 I think close behind them is Will Chase and Adam Kantor!

  • @bloop413 Will Chase is by far a much better sounding Roger, and Adam Kantor will always be the best Mark.

    along with the best Mimi ever to perform RENT is by far going to be Renee Elise Goldsberry.

  • @bloop413 saw them both in philly...they did awsome as always!!  lol

  • Will Chase.....Idina Menzel & Eden Espinosa (tye)......Justin Johnston.......Adam Kantor......Tracie Tohms........Renee Goldsberry.....Taye Diggs.....Michael McElroy......THE BEST GROUP RIGHT HERE!!!!

  • I actually happened to see Joey Fatone in the stage production, and I was totally cynical going in, but he did a knock out job the night I was there, and I was sitting in the 3rd row, pretty far stage left, where Mark often sings his little narration bits. I was all prepared to hate on him, but the only complaint I could come up with that night were the 12 year olds screaming for his autograph at the stage door after the show.

  • i thought it was great! : ) too many haters on this one grief.

  • the hell? did joey blank out during the middle? where he's supposed to say "don't call me a hypocrite...i quit"..

  • no, i think they just decided to cut it out cuz it would've looked awkward

  • I am really glad tahat Jonathan Larson never had to see/hear this

  • Wow....WTF would they cast Joey Fatone as Mark.?! What were they thinking?! He is not a good Mark at all. Anthony Rapp or Adam Kantor! Sebastian is ok...still not good. Adam Pascal or Will Chase!

  • Where's Anthony and Adam!?

    *coma*

  • some of you people are dicks.

    and if you don't like joey fatone then don't youtube him you stupid ass.

  • ARGH NOOOOO

  • Ugh, no offense to his fans, but I really don't like Joey Fatone. It seems like his Mark is a parody of the one we all know and love. Like he's mocking us with his...self.

  • and btw JOEY FATONE IS AN AWESOME MARK SO PRAYER91210 IF UR GUNNA HATE ON HIM STOP WATCHING HIS VIDEOS!!!

  • there good together

    it was fun to watch

  • It's just a bit too hammy. They look like they're trying to upstage each-other.

  • Joey is the worst Mark I have seen! Why was he cast?!

  • Wow Joey looked stupid forgeting the part when he quits.

  • They aren't THAT off-key. At some points they definately are, but for the most part, this was pretty good!

    BTW, Joey Fatone is HOT!!!!

  • Joey Fatone is a good singer, along with Sebastian Arcelus, but not for this. They are off key alot, and it borthered me that Joey forgot. "Alex, Mark. Call me a hipocite!" Haha, now I sound like one. :P This is still pretty good.

  • Well, despite most of the comments. I enjoyed it.

  • OKAY i am going to say this once sebastian arcelus is a great singer he was fiyero in the cast of wicked and one of the best fiyeros i might add and also is married to one of the best elphabas of all time stephanie j block so every actor has bad moments so lay off!

  • sorry to joey but he makes a terrible mark anthony rapp was the original and true i hae seen some ok marks after him but joey is one of the bad ones

  • I don't broadcast myself as a Renthead by any means. I followed the OBC. I saw the tour this year with Adam and Anthony.

    But I have to say that is simply awful. The entire thing is just offkey, and I have the sheet music- I know how tough those harmonies are.

    I hate leaving negative comments towards actors, because no, I don't know the conditions in which this was produced, but no Roger should ever perform THIS offkey. Along with a half-hearted, sharp/flat, badly riffing Mark.

  • yea when you get put in a broadway show in amain part, then you can say something about how it sounds.

  • When you learn basic grammar rules including capitalization and spelling I'll take you seriously. Good deal?

    Bottom line: this isn't up to par. If you're on Broadway then you're expected to be at the very least on-key. Are you honestly trying to dispute that? They're paid to perform!

  • pffft, wut my spelling and grammar have to do with this? lol nothing relle, u just can't accept that fact that perhaps yes u r wrong. They were on key for yes i too own the score and i am at school for music, vocal if u must know and yes i know they are perfectly fine. They were obviously chosen for how they sounded so there's no reason in even disputing it. Yea not the best performance, but in key....yes.

  • I agree.

  • well overall their really good but could never top anthoney n adam.

  • Joey is I think a little to pudgy to play Mark. No offense to him at all, but I just think Mark and Roger are struggling to get by and to make ends meet, so I don't think there should be a heavy Mark, because it doesn't make sense to me. Thoughts?

  • lmao wtf... they dont either look a typical mark or roger-.- .... give me Will Chase and Adam Kantor please

  • NO since when is Broadway Hollywood? No no no no! funfunnyfunner put it best. This is messed up. I have no problem with Joey, just Joey as Mark.

  • Joey FAT ONE

    lardass

  • wow....this is awful

  • hmm I hate when they Hollywood up Broadway for publicity. I wish that the talent of true theatre performers and amazing shows was enough

  • ugh.....adam an anthony please

  • That was pretty terrible.

  • totally agree... it sucks

  • Anthony and Adam are just way too good, but I give these guys credit, hey, they could be worse

  • Am I reading this right? His name is Joey Fat one..? Unfortunate name..

    That Roger is horrific. How some of these guys even get cast...

  • luckily he got cast as an understudy when he did the show again

  • actually sebastian arcelus was casted as fiyero and is one of the most well known fiyeros from wicked and i married to the amazing stephanie j. block who played Elphaba in the tour of wicked.

  • I am not a fan of Sebastian and this case is no different. He does look great as Roger though.

  • I was like "wait what happened to Marks line", and there not that bad, I mean the're not the best, and not the worst. Hmmmm...(shrug shoulders)

  • This is absolutly awful !!!!!

  • Joey forgot his lyrics."Alexi-Mark.Call me a hypocrite.I need to finish my own film.I quit!"

  • Jesus christ roger is sliding his voice so much and Joey Fatone is rifting where he shouldn't be rifting. Bottom line this is terrible.

  • they FAIL!!!!!!!!!

  • this is horrible; nice try guys....but i know mark as a skinny awkward guy; and this "roger" looks evil lol; and the roger i know isn't like that; he cuter lol

  • This doesn't compare to Rapp and Pascal. Watching this is like having plain cereal after eating sugared.

    Long live Pascal and Rapp!

  • that was really bad

  • joey fatone is not awkward enough for mark..

  • I am a big fan of Sebastian Arcelus but not as this particular role....

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  • joey fatone is amazing

  • Joey tried to hard to be the ledgend that is mr Anthony Rapp

  • that was disgusting.

    I love Anthony Rapp. Hes so nice :)

  • Yeah this was not the best cast (or well these too) Adam and Anthony and the old recent cast were AHMAZING. It seems like they are not being mad. They are going into happy broadway show. Hello! you are suppose to be playing a role who has like no money, lost a friend and is getting evicted by your friend. it does not add up

  • they both suck.

    pitiful.

  • actually this roger did another tour and was cast as an understudy. thank god!

  • now we know why maureen dumped mark

  • haha, ya. joey fatone (in my opinion) didnt make a well mark.

  • i wonder how he'd would've done as roger

  • this is quite digusting. go back to nysync, joey :)

  • They had good harmonies at times...

    but overall-

    definitely not as good as Pascal and Rapp.

  • i think the only good harmonies were the ones at the end

  • No one can even pretend to be half as good as Anthony and Adam (I saw them yesterday, and oh my GOD), but they did alright, I think.

  • ew...really bad.

  • Are we being punished with this video?

  • ICK. Ok Rent is a ROCK opera--Joey Fatone is trying to change it to the pop version--yeah and FAT being the key word in Fatone. Honestly--if you're bigger than Anthony Rapp--you cannot play Mark. End of story. ick ick ick I just saw Adam and Anthony sing this in person and no one will ever compare.

  • my opinion is than joey sucks at playing mark but its only my opinion

  • THIS FUCKING SUCKED ASS! Anthony and ADAM... And Jonathan Larson's family should sue. Oh My God IM embarrassed for these guys

  • i love Sebastian Arcelus but this role is not for him, he's much better as Fiyero, and Joey Fatone has to learn the words and notes, why did he randomly stop singing in the middle??

    Jonathan Larson looked down at this and cringed, then turned in his grave

  • i dont no how i feel about this i dont really like joey or sebastion anthony and adam will only b able to sing this the RIGHT way

  • Which Mark Cohen is this?

    Oh yeah, it's the Fat One... get it?

  • I love this song, but Joeys vibrato is a tad much for my taste. But it's super cool how they filmed it in front of the Nederlander.

  • What was this from? Or did they just randomly decide to rush out of the theater fully in costume and start singing??

  • yeah, why'd thay do this outside? and FYI to the idiot who said "I can see why thay closed the show" for your information, honey THIS IS NOT why. RENT is a GREAT show Im not sure why exactly thay closed the show but this is not why

  • I see why they closed the show

  • joey was ok. but the guy playing roger was HORRIBLE!

  • God awful.

  • This sounds like really bad drunken karaoke.

  • my thoughts exactly

  • Oh preach, adamp90x, preach, this is horrible, they sound extremely flat and is just plain bad casting

    i dare anyone who gives me negative points or says i'm wrong

  • sebastian was amazing in jersey boys but sucks ridiculously as roger this is terrible

  • ok but sebastian is always flat so that isn't helping Joey out at all.

  • why did he have 2 join da cast and ruin it tank god hes no in da cast any more

  • I LOVE Joey Fatone to death, but this isn't his best work. I loved him more in N Sync. But still, he was good here. <3 Joey! <3 <3 N Sync!

  • Joey Fatone just killed my favorite song in this whole show!

    Plus, aren't they supposed to be "hungry and frozen"? Joey looks a little too "Full and Warm". Idk. Just a thought.

    Long Live RENT!

  • how did they clear the street?

  • maybe no one wanted to se them and went to see anthony and adam :)

  • weak

  • For someone who's freezing and starving I thing this Joey something is a little bit too.. plump? Don't mistake me, I'm not saying that people who aren't skinny shouldn't do this kind of job. i'm just saying that you don't cast a caucasian mimi so why casting a plump guy to play Mark?

    You have to give them credits. They ruined the song so well! They're good at it! really!

  • Joey's trying too hard to be Anthony Rapp.

  • this Roger was kinda...well...awful...Joey was fine, and how do you think they got the music outside? that could be why they were off

  • "were living in AmeeEEEeerica!" they're too soft and "pop"-y with the song... i mean Rent was supposed to be a "Rock Opera"... but i know that there must be a reason why they were cast for the role but with this vid i cant see it.

  • i think i now know why joey is an actor and insync broke up gosh i hate this

  • Also, they are not constantly out of tune - there are some rough and awry harmonies, but not all of it is horrendous.

  • Admittedly, the voices are dodgy, but what does (purely out of interest) what Joey Fatone LOOKS like have to do with absolutely anything?

  • This is a HOTT MESS! Joey is a FATTY fat FATTY MESS of a Mark. He looks ahott ass mess trying to act! They are off as hell. What is up with the cheesy come out of the theatre?? LAME! This mess would almost make Rent unbarable to sit through! I bet his Halloween was ASS!!! let me look that up. MESS

  • manley pope was such a better roger than this guy haha

    (not sayin he was the best but hes really good )

  • many of the harmonies turned out alright, but 2:11 was absolutely horrible.

  • I have to think they couldn't hear themselves while doing this and that's why they were so off key.

    I also have to think one of my favorite songs from Rent was killed.

  • Whose idea was it to cast these two people in rent!? They're voices are sliding around all over the place!

  • omg these guys suck compaired to adam and anthony seriously this is disgusting lol

  • not bad...but joey does NOT look good in glasses. i'm sorry, but he looks terrible

  • this is horrible...

  • hahahahahahaha...

  • oh lordy they are so bad its not even funny hahaha

  • God...they aren't even singing in the same key!! What the heck?!?! XD

  • mmmm. Joey should not have been Mark.

    And yes, time to time does mean constantly in that case.

    It made me want to hunt down anthony rapp and adam pascall and make them sing it.

  • Roger.... really??? This is terrible

  • although no one can replace the origionalz i think that joey and sebastin did a hell of a job! lol...as much as i want adam and anthony back...they cant stay forever. u have to let other people have a chance...

  • ANTHONY AND ADAMMM!!! Where have you gone, we miss you. :(

  • lol...thatz for shure...no one can do it better than the origionalz!

  • This Roger is making my ears bleed and my head spin.

    GIMME ANTHONY RAPP!!!!!!!

  • oh come on now...i admit that anthony rapp was better but this new guy isnt half bad...=]

  • This might not be bad, but it's very, very weird (as in these guys instead of Anthony and Adam).

  • Forget the singing, they make me cringe visually. good grief, Sebastian! Lose the beard!

  • I think Joey is actually not too bad and the Roger really makes me cringe...

  • In reverse, my friend.

  • It's soooo bad.

  • AWFUL. You just can't replace the originals...

  • if you listen...Joey is on pitch a larger majority of he time. Sebastian riffs too much taking him WAY out of key!

    ...but it still sucks over all.

  • EW.

  • MY EARS!! THEY BLEED!!!

    need.. anthony.. rapp!

  • Sebastian makes a great Roger... but serioiusly... Joey Fatone? i mean he sings it well enough and i mean i'm sure he did fine during his run i just can't see him as Mark. i can only see Anthony in that role.

    i love this song! but in some places they really needed to work on harmony...

  • uhh, not the original, how dissapointing.

  • I think that Sebastian Arcelus made a really good Rodger but Joey Fatone?? Not a Mark!! They dont mix well at all.

  • umm, yikes!! work on harmony

  • lol adam pascal and anthony rapp at the park live on this song is way better....lol joey wat a joke

  • It wasnt bad cept joey 4got to sing the part where he quits his job. but it was good! why and when was this recorded and was joey really in rent!!!??? hello! lol.

  • they prolly had no music to go with

  • Did any of you actually see these two in the show? I'm guessing not. Joey was fine. Sebastian was a great swing, and a better Mark than Roger. He was also an excellent Fiyero in Wicked and is doing a fabulous job in Jersey Boys currently.

  • Its really not that bad you guys..

    you try singing with out real back up music. I will admit its off, but its not as bad as it could be....

  • what is this N'Sync crap, that's the only way he got this gig, he does'nt deserve this

  • Is it just me or does it sound like Joey has a cold?

  • My ears started to bleed after 5 sec. so I had to stop the video. Worst version ever of my favorite song from RENT.

  • HAHAHA!