Rent Remixed - Children in Need - Seasons of Love - 16/11/07

The West End cast of Rent perform Seasons of Love to close this year's Children in Need fundraiser.

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• Rent
• Remixed
• Denise
• van
• Outen
• Children
• in
• Need
• Siobhan
• Donaghy
• Musical
• Theatre
• West
• End
• Entertainment
• Francesca
• Jackson

[videogeek12345]

Jonathan Larson would be ashamed.

[DistantCousin]

It's hardly any different from the original orchestration, why are people making such a big deal?!

[ryanhh1]

Who ever that blonde girl is. I want to punch her in the face

[flamgirla35]

I LOVE rent and really want it to come back to london but this is shameful

[CROCODlLE]

I'm all about artistic integrity, but at some point, you are going to violate the point of the original work. Here are my qualms: Too many blondes. Where's the black women? Why is Angel bald? He's got AIDS, not Cancer.

Rent is supposed to take place in the multi-ethnic section of New York City in the early 1990's near the end of the AIDS epidemic. The people on this show are too preppy, too clean, straight out of Abercrombie & Fitch. Why feel bad about a group of rich suburbanites?

[Chuektor]

@DistantCousin because you don't change RENT unless you've been a part of the cast some time before : P. No really, the arrangement here in the chorus just takes out the beautiful out of it pretty much, a matter of note selection. And also the high note in the male's solo, you HAVE to hit it when doing this song. Rentheads realize that, so that's why they make such a big deal. Cheers = )

[meggaandtiffy]

what is the blonde WEARING???? i thought this was for children

[lebanese678]

The yellow dancing bear at the back makes this video disappointing. LOL. Kidding. Missing the high parts. :[

[BigScott93]

To all of you who say that Jonathan Larson would be ashamed or insulted by this tell me how that is your place to say that? You have no idea what Larson would have thought of this, none of us do. Don't presume to know how a composer would feel about how his work was interpreted. If you don't like what's been done with it, that's your opinion. Don't state it as fact.

[jamesmelling2]

i'm sorry, but this is pretty terrible. me and my friends sing this better on a drunken night out. we even sing the harmonies that larson actually wrote, not some terrible simplification. :(

[PS3Fanatic09]

Oh dear utter dissapointment.

[zombiegirl626]

Nicely whitewashed cast there...