98 - Rent (feat. Michael R. Jackson)
Added 2023-08-02 06:00:04 +0000 UTCPulitzer-Prize winning composer and playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop, White Girl in Danger!) joins the lads in lighting up a mean blaze with posters (and screenplays!) as they dive headlong into the grunge and Gen X angst of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer-Prize winning musical watershed: Rent. Topics include the influential score, the show’s vague politics, and the lasting legacy of one of the most seminal rock musicals of all time.
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Michael R. Jackson - Twitter // Instagram // Website // A Strange Loop (UK) Tickets
Media Referenced in Episode:
- Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway
- People in Trouble by Sarah Schulman
- Stagestruck by Sarah Schulman
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “You’ll Die Alone” - Music by Jonathan Larson - Lyrics by Dr. Samuel Bultch, D.D.S. - feat. Eleanor Philips as “Roger
Comments
Random sort of thought but have you guys ever seem 'Existo: The Forbidden Movie'? There is a low rez version of it on YouTube, its a movie about 'creatives' fighting the 'man' and stars Jim Varney and his acting buddies (seriously, almost ever one of them was in an Ernest related thing).
Langolier
2024-03-05 02:48:55 +0000 UTC…so the impression I’m getting is that you guys like this musical and think that it is good
Morgan Byrd
2023-08-15 03:52:15 +0000 UTCThis is the perfect opportunity to unleash my inner Old Country snob and just say that in my opinion Puccini's Bohème has more musical ideas, dramatic tension and emotional depth in one bar than RENT in its entirety. Which is not to say it's a bad musical or that it's not enjoyable. It's just trying to walk in some truly monumental footsteps.
Wilko
2023-08-12 22:43:24 +0000 UTCMy younger sister was really into Wicked so I got absolutely sick of that too lol
Yura
2023-08-05 18:41:08 +0000 UTCIf you were a decade younger, that'd be Wicked.
murt pie
2023-08-05 18:36:50 +0000 UTCI'm forever turned against Rent because all the most annoying people in high school wouldn't shut up about it lmao. But good to hear you guys talk about it
Yura
2023-08-04 04:46:17 +0000 UTCI loved when y'all pointed out that one essential element so many songwriters miss, yet is essential for any musical to really 'pull it off,' so to speak. And I'm quoting here "when the rhythm is glad, there is nothing to be sad." So true, so true.
Dergon
2023-08-03 20:07:37 +0000 UTCIn 1997 I camped outside the Nederlander Theater for 24 hours to get $20 front-row tickets to Rent, AMA.
murt pie
2023-08-03 01:12:07 +0000 UTCI think the thing about selling out nowadays is that nobody's buying. There's scarce few paths into any industry now and even if you manage to get in the gate you're not gonna make any money there so what would the point even be? In 2023 the idea that you'd even have the option to live a comfortable life doing humdrum work for The Man sounds like the most bourgeoise thing you've ever heard.
Autumn Jones
2023-08-02 20:49:43 +0000 UTCFun fact about myself: I also learned about Rent when the movie came out in 2005, but I didn't see the pro-shot until I was in college. So when Mark says "his gf April left a note saying 'we got AIDS' before slitting her wrists in the bathroom," I had to stop watching it cause I had no clue that was how April died.
Sharon Horwatt
2023-08-02 20:18:32 +0000 UTCNo podcast brings such a wonderful mix of radio, video game, and theater commentary. Y'all rock
im so daddy i havent slept in a year
2023-08-02 19:43:10 +0000 UTCtfw you realize you’re older than everyone in rent
Aysha U. Farah
2023-08-02 18:55:51 +0000 UTCGoddamn, what a flex of a feature... Very hyped for this!
The Jarda
2023-08-02 06:20:28 +0000 UTC
