[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

I saw this post in the wicked forum and thought "I wonder that things obsessed Rent fans have done?". There i most likely a topic already on this, but I couldn't seem to find it. So i'm starting one!

You Know You Obsessed With Rent When...

You start loudly singing
"Follow the man -- follow the man. With his pockets full of the jam. Follow the man -- follow the man. Help me out, daddy If you can. Got any D man? Got any C man? Got any X? Any smack? Any horse? Any jugie boogie boy? Any blow?" extremly loudly on your school Aths Day and have all the teachers look at you and your friends thinking that your all druggies and need server help.

Your in a cowded shop and you phone rings. you relise that you still have you ring tone set on "On The Street". People look at you when it starts going "Who the F**k do you think you are". Woops!

Someone asks you if you want to rent the "Latest BMW" for as little as $99 a day. They then go on to say that it's the cheapest you'll be able to rent it. In your response you start singing "Rent". You then shout in his face "I'm not going to pay Rent!" and storm off. The sale man avoids you next time you walk past.

You and your friends are siting in the cafeteria. You then start huming La Via Bohem. Very quickly you and your Rent obsessed friends are standing on the table singing La Via Bohem. When it comes to Maureens "mooning" part you stand on the table and do the mooning part. You turn to see your school princaple standing behind you. You subsiquently got friday detention.

Well, I hope my experiences will spure the rest of our Lovly RENT obsessed fans to post here. I can confiently say all of these things happend to me and I am now scared for life!

[broadwayfreak67]

[ShadowInTheWings]

[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

[broadwayfreak67]

It's fine. I understood you. :]

[wicked_boy]

- You remind your firends that here is no day but today.

[BoundBySound]

~You decide to sing Tango: Maureen for a weekly Friday mini talent show in chorus with your black gay friend, then you realize that Mark was straight in the show and white and Joanne is homosexual in the show and black but you sing it anyways and your partner forgets to censor out the eff word and you get in trouble. Fun times...

[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

That would be fun!

Last night i was trying to teach my cat that there is so Day but Today! he just looked at me as if it was in need ot mental help. It was worth a try.

[Angel-of-Music*]

When i walked in to my singing group thing i saw a rent music book. i sat and stared at it until she annouced that we would be singing seasons of love.. at which put i get up dance and scream " oh my god, i love you so much!" at the singing tracher for picking such an awesome song.. she now thinks im odd.

[wicked_boy]

Oh my god! ^ That happened to me on Monday!

[Idinafan]

My friends, (a lesbien couple) just suggested that i watch Rent. I have never seen the musical or the movie, but i love the soundtrack. I started singing "Take me or Leave Me" in physics class, and my very homophobic classmates informed me that this song was between a lesbian couple. I blushed for a second, then decided to just keep on singing. Then, my prinicpal walks in just as i sing "Cause evey night who's in your bed?"

[christinadaae]

[Sky'sTheLimit]

[Radames's_Angel]

((my bff is the Rent obsessed one, more or less, so I have been involved with these, but anything that just talks about one person is her))
you and your friends sing La Vie Boheme at lunch, Will I in English class, and people start thinking you're gay because you talked your best friend into singing Take me Baby or Leave Me, and I'll cover you on the walk durring gym class

Imagine Mark is your Boyfriend, and won't go out with anyone because it would be untrue to him

Hit your bff any time she says anything even slightly negative about Rent (my bff hits hard)

make your name on any website Mark Loving Hobbit (she's on Gaia, for anyone who is on there)

[Luc]

[LittleMissCenterStage]

At my friend's Sweet 16, we all dressed up like we were in Rent and danced/sung to the entire CD. The DJ said it was one of the weirdest requests he'd had.

[Radames's_Angel]

[Radames's_Angel]

[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

[wicked_boy]

[Radames's_Angel]

[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

[wicked_boy]

[Maureen Elphaba Menzel]

[Kaaatrina]

[musicalmaniac396]

I'm sorry if I'm breaking that conversation, but I wanted to add another moment.(not sarcasticaly)

You are told to shut up by your non-RENThead friends because you
keep singing RENT songs!

When your best friend (who is not gay, nothing against gay people) suggests we do Take Me or Leave Me for a talent show because of your love of the song and RENT!

When your mom and TEACHER both know you love RENT!

When your friend goes on a table and pretends to push stuff away like what Idina does in Take Me or Leave Me! (It was really funny!)

When the word RENT is everywhere you look! This is true!

[wishicouldsing]

...when you finally realize that every single time someone asks you what you're listening to, you reply with (what else?) Rent...[/i]

[bwayobsessed]

Everytime someone says "Meow!" you automatically add "Ha!" to it & continue to sing the rest, getting all your friends who know it to join in.

[Philphaba]

- You put the words no day but today at the end of all your slide shows in ICT.

[Asha]

You doodle Rent Lyrics on the back of your test papers.

[lilmissbroadway]

~At school you're like a Rent eveangelist, trying to convert everyone to it
~you and your friend could spend forever talking about different Mimis

[Philphaba]

[Brock07]

If your awnsering machine says "speeeeeeeak!" . . . . . . .

lol mine does.

[Philphaba]

[pennypingleton1994]

When you perform Over the Moon in your English class and freak out your classmates.

[Philphaba]

[pennypingleton1994]

[lilmissbroadway]

Yeah my friend Chase said something about how he wished he could do that for variety show at school, but I said," Yeah, but everyone will think you're on crack or something...."

[liza_minelli]

when you subtly play the OCR/soundtrack/whatever whenever your friends are over in an attempt to help them learn all the words.

when in your music classes you raise your hand and ask if you can show the class something using the piano. you then walk over to it and play the piano part at the start of la vie boheme to see if you can start off one of those fantastic everyone-is-singing-yay! moments.
yep, I got some strange looks for that one. only two people in my entire music class have even seen rent!

when you spend your entire life saying "i know the music's really quite pop-rock and everything but..."





...wow, I haven't been on here in about a year, crazy xxx

[Philphaba]

- Rent is all over your myspace/website.

[lost in the darkness 101]

when you freak out because you finally found out how to play "your eyes" on your gutair.

or when you freak out even more when you realise that your cousins new gutair looks identical(sp?) to the one Roger had in the movie.

[deGREENIFYme]

-your non-RENTers friends calculated how many minutes there are in 1 year because you keep on singing 'seasons of love' and when they got the answer and told you that it wasn't 525600 minutes (exactly or rounded off), you burst into explaining why it wasn't exact and argued in the end.

[mastachen]

I don't know what calculations your friends did, but it comes out to exactly 525,600 minutes in a year.


Jon Larson didn't just randomly pick that number out of the air b/c it fit the tune.

[wicked_boy]

I just calculated it and didn't get excacly 525, 600. Probably wrong though.

[Luc]

There are definitely 525 600 minutes in a year... unless it's a leap year. But that wouldn't really fit the tune...

525 600 minutes...
or 527 040 if it's a leap year...

I just don't see it working.

[Theaterfan101]

...you search for a Collins on an internet fourm

[wicked_boy]

[CurlyWurly]

- You get everyone 'mooing' with you in your class
- You write 'Anarchy' across the toilet walls, in form of protest
- A long table with people sitting round it is just asking to be stood on and have you sing "La Vie Boheme" on
- You can't resist, when standing ontop of a desk, singing/saying "This Diva Needs Her Stage"

[mastachen]

[wicked_boy]

[Philphaba]

[mastachen]

[Philphaba]

[MunkustrapQC]

When in an English Class (I'm going to a French school), your friend said : Last Night, I had a deam, and you start singing Over The moon from that point.

I did that today!!

[jetblack_diva]

[Philphaba]

- When your rarely found practicing the songs your teacher asked you to on your guitar 'cuz all you want to play all weekend it "Musseta's Waltz", "One Song Glory" & "Tune Up #1" (I did this, i did practice the others though )

- When you randomly burst out singing "La Vie boheme" everyday your friends now expect it too happen.

- You can act the whole musical through no matter where you are or who you are with.

[emmy05]

[striped_mark_scarf]

You skip school to see RENT
You spend $50 on your specially ordered RENT Bible
You know what a RENT Bible is
You smile when references to RENT are made in pop culture, regardless of whether or not it was positive.
You bought an iPod specifically for your RENT tunes and you organize said tunes in order of the musical.
You have always wanted to yell "SPEAK" into and answering machine
You roll your eyes when people say "RENT is gay!". You then proceed to tell them that they are in fact correct.

[striped_mark_scarf]

[striped_mark_scarf]

[sylvesterm11]

You ask your friends what date Christmas Eve is on. They tell you December 24. And obviously, you continue with "9 PM, eastern standard time..." and complete the song.

You call your friends' voicemails just to recite them Voice Mail #1-5. My personal favorite is #1... Mark's mom is just a barrel full of fun. I'm glad to say all my friends call me asking me to sing it to them. :]

YOU PLAN ON GOING TO EVERY SHOWING OF THE RENT: FILMED LIVE ON BROADWAY MOVIE. And, each different night, plan to be a different character. First showing for me is Mimi

[Disney-Bway27]

When you try to persuade your health teacher to watch RENT when we study STDs...

I know I've done that.
Many, many, many times.
I also tried to persuade my geography teacher to watch The Phantom of the Opera when we studied France, but that's a different story.

[fjays]

[wtfchuck]

.. you're answering a facebook quiz and when the question "How do you feel today?" comes up, you reply with "Best I've felt all year".

( I just did that )

[xandedrsnape]

I went to this drama camp that you had to go through this long selection process for ( I was so ecstatic when I got to go!) and there was this guy there who was a rent fan... before I had even met him I was sitting on the bus waiting to get underway (we were seeing Billy Elliot in Sydney..best show ever) and I was singing both parts of light my candle to myself when this guy sits down net to me and we automatically pair o into the two parts and finish the song... before Id even met him!

was so awesome.... I felt like I was living in a musical or those 5 days or so.

[xandedrsnape]

Oh I just thought of some more

friend : How long to till the end of lunch?

Me : (sings) five hundred Twenty five thousand Six Hundred Minutes.


And you know your obsessed when you manage to get your friend who
1. generally hates musicals
and 2. Only listens to thrash screamo where you cant make out the words

to listen, memorize and love rent like you do![/i]

edit- and another.... I had to go on a 5 hour trip with my brother driving once... and a made him listen to rent nearly three times consecutively.... then did the same on the way back!... it was not long after I had first discovered rent lol

[What you own]

On team day at school instead of wearing a team jersey for baseball, or soccer or whatever other sports you and your friend make shirts that say Team RENT on the front and then on the back the last name of a RENT character (Mine was COHEN and her was SCHUNARD) and then but the number 12 on mine and 24 on hers (December 24th 9 p.m we didhn't think to do 525,600 till after we had already made the shirts)

at a party you and all ur rent friends dance like Mark at the end of La Vie Boheme

When some one asks whats the time? in drama class the whole row of people all breaks out into "Well it's gotta be close to midnight " you then procede to sing the rest of Out Tonight

When you go to a diner with ur drama club and becuase you are such a large group they have to push tables together (Which they where not happy about) they are just calling to be danceing on and call to be sung. (Everyone was to busying crying to sing. since this was the last time some poepl where ever goignt o do this class agein since they had aged out and the fact that we woulnd have to see each other in a year or perhaps never at all)

You and your friends have a very long descussions on how Mark got his scarf.

When you use a hot plate in science you suddely break out into song singing "Oh hope you like the hotplate just don't leave it on dear when you leave the house... E.T.C)

[nabla]

When your drama teacher doesn't show up, you line up the tables and convince the rest of your class to re-enact La Vie Boheme, I did that yesterday

[broadway_bound92]

[What you own]

When you call your friend on Decemeber 24th and you both sing at the same time. "Decemeber 24th 9 PM EST ....." and then go through the whole show.

You have your other friend get obsessed with RENT.

You watch RENT in french.

The next day at school you go up to each other and sing radom phrases of RENT in french.

We where talking about chemical and physical reactions in science and when the teacher says that ligthing a candle is a chemical reaction you break out in to WYLMC?

You make a WYLMC? science version.

At drama you and your friends break out into La vie bohome (I sang Marks part.) your drama teachers stars at you and says okey.. i have odd students. and you say "where not odd where bohemain!

[What you own]

Sorry for Double posting. But no one has added lately and I had some more.

In chourus and now for drama we are singing Seasons of Love. Now this would be great if IT WAS THE BROADWAY VERSION (or movie version some one. either way the REAL one) But no. Were singing some weried version of it. I don't know if its the remix or what. But I think my chourus/drama teacher probabley got it online or something. Since i have no clue why she would make us do this version! (Its bad. It ends with Measure the love. then just stop! Its the one by Roger Emerson. Whom I just looked up and went to his website.)

Well since I have two copys of this ...song. I was in drama rehersal. I had forgotten my drama folder. But alas I had my chorus folder so I still had Seasons of Love. I guess the song would not be so bad if it wasn't for my chorus teacher. who keeps changieng all the keysand... err. So right now soloist one sings in a chest voice with no high notes. And soloist 2 uses chest voice and is all in high notes!!! Not that there solos any more since every one happans to be singing them. Well when she was makeing the changes for the second solo to be sung high. my face must have looked something like this and it stayed like that for a very long time. (my friends could not stop laughing.) and by the way. Soloist number to sounds really bad when it sung very high.... any way the whole arrangement of the song and hows shes teachering it is butchering the song.

But anyway. Sorry had to rant. so while she was doing this and I am standing there in pure horror. I started to destroy my copy of the music. (I ripped the words seasons of love from RENT and Jonathon Larson off to save the from the desturction for 2 reasons. 1. Becuase this was not Seasons of Love from RENT and It was not by Jonathon Larson. and 2. Why would i destroy something that had the words RENT on it. since that was the only place that it said RENT on the paper.

On the paper I wrote some mock RENT songs like

I will throw this OWWWuTTT tonight. and

Will I burn this out?
Will I destroy it?
Will I wake tommrow form this nightmare (Of a song)

and

How we gonna kill
How we gonna kill
how we gonna kill
ROGER EMERSON (Or Ms. Zucker my chorus teacher which ever one you find more fitting.)

those where among some other nasty comments I made on the song.

[CurlyWurly]

this isnt so much an 'obsession' story but more of a 'damn that was funny' story.

i rang my friend yesterday and it went to her answering machine. so i decided to have a little fun. so on the answering machine i left the message:
"honey? i know your there. please, pick up the phone. are you ok? this isnt funny. how can i atone? i lose control but i can learn to behave, give me just one more chance let me be your slave. ill kiss your doc martens, your every wish i will obey...please call me"

(she has never seen rent so i could get away with it)

boy, was i in trouble after that.
about 2 hours later she rang me up saying that her girlfriend had listened to the message and starting asking her all these questions about who the message was off and what the hell was she doing with her.
i personally found it really funny.
things worked out though. i explained everything to her girlfriend. great first impression that was.

[Sphynx]

When you call your cousin, who has no idea what Rent is, and proceed to sing "Honey, I know you're there. . please pick up the phone. . are you okaaaaaay?" to her until she finally answers

When you're in the process of saying "screw paying $60 for a Mark scarf, I'M MAKING MY OWN" . . and are currently working on it as we speak.

When you own the Rent soundtrack in English, Dutch, Swedish, German, and a few songs in Italian . . . and can sing some of the songs in the different languages.

[ilovebway]

...when you get yelled at by your brother for trying to belt out "One Song Glory" at two in the morning.

and ignore him.

[What you own]

Oh wow someone posted on here again!

[Sphynx]

Yessire! *lvoes her some RENT*

[Disney-Bway27]

...When you know all the words to Christmas Bells.

ALL of them.

And you know when Roger actually says "Let's not hold hands yet" in the previously mentioned song.

[Sphynx]

Whoohoo! I actually know all that song I mostly sing the Roger/Mimi/Mark part, so it's hard for me NOT to hear when he says "Let's not hold hands yet"

[What you own]

When you try to sing ALL of Christmas Bells. All the parts. At the same time.

That had my friends laughing...

[Disney-Bway27]

When I sing Christmas Bells, I sing selected portions of the fugue, sort of like with One Day More!
When it gets to the big part, I go like "Honest living! Mark, this is Mimi--HI!--She'll be dining--A new arrival--That is an ounce--hats, dats, bats--THAT'S MY COAT!!--We give discounts!" and so on. It's quite interesting.

For One Day More! I just go like "ONE DAY MOOORE! I did not live until today--catch them as they fall--I'm ON my own!"

[Sphynx]

[mezzo_soprano]

My sister does the funniest thing like that with partsof Down once more!
Say you lo-all hope of crys-and my life -no point in fighting

[inlove]

You Know You're Obsessed With Rent When:

You and your show choir friends act out the entirity of "La Vie Boheme" during a lunch break during a Saturday rehearsal, and you videotape the whole thing. Everyone knows all of the lines and choreography and everything. And when the part comes where Roger plays Musetta's Waltz, someone actually takes a guitar and plays it (correctly)

[Disney-Bway27]

^ I had a similar experience. Last weekend, I went to lunch and sat at a very long table and I was SO tempted to start dancing on it. Like, you all have no idea.

[CurlyWurly]

-your best friend refuses to take you out one night. so you begin to sing "take me out tonight" to him none stop until he agrees to take you out. (it worked lol)

-new years eve. your sitting with your friends. you know its only 11:30pm but when someone asks "how long untill next year?" you cant help but shout up "3 and a half minutes!"

-you have a power cut and your sitting there with an unlit candle on purpose so you begin to sing "would you light my candle?"

(movie)
-you have crawled across a pool table knocking all the balls out of the way while singing to the person standing at the other end to "take me or leavee mee"

[What you own]

Opps I guess there already was one

http://musicals.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=51811

When you find that. Since you have no life and are reading all of the RENT forum.

[satch]

when you have changed your answering machine to pick up only after 1 ring and when your greeting message is "speaaaaaaaaaaaaak"

[Disney-Bway27]

Oh, satch, you finally listened to it?
Isn't it great?

[satch]

[Disney-Bway27]

Did you listen to the Original Broadway Cast Recording? I love it but I think a lot of the orchestrations are better in the movie.

...Some of the way some characters say things in the OBCR are so bad they're good.

ROGER IN WORST POSSIBLE BRITISH ACCENT: That's shaken, not stirred.

[Vice]

YKYOWRW:

You're listening to Santa Fe on your Mp3 in Santa Fe, and loving the irony. (Happened once... To a friend.)

[satch]

[Disney-Bway27]

Mark is one of my dream roles. :] I think I might be too deep for him though. The character closest to my range is Collins and I don't have the chops for him.

[What you own]

My friend did this.

She has Alexi Darling in her contacts. With all of her phone numbers.

[Oli-Ol]

Haha some of these are hilerious!

Well I'm not a renthead so I can't add anything to the conversation but I have been tempted to sing La Vie Boheme in the dining room...

[WickedToo]

...when you're singing Today 4 U while you're cleaning.

[Disney-Bway27]

When you immediately think of Roger when you see the plaid design...anywhere.

Yay for Roger pants. I want me some Roger pants.

[ActingDude17]

...when one of your dream roles is Mark.

...when you see the Farewell Tour and have spaz attacks throughout due to the sheer intensity of the show (guilty as of today).

[Disney-Bway27]

^ When your dream role is Mark and you're a baritone!

You and I are in the same boat for that one... Damn baritonyness.

[ActingDude17]