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Brock07
Broadway Legend / MdN Veteran
Joined: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:31 pm
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Location: Lancaster, PA
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 Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!!
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LaVieBoheme
Chorus Member
Joined: Sat Oct 30, 2010 7:44 am
Posts: 50
Location: Too far from any decent theatres
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!!
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MunkustrapQC
Broadway Legend
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:06 pm
Posts: 744
Location: Québec City, QC
Current Obsession: Once, Chess, Company, Assassins
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! Michael Greif will direct the show again so I'm pretty sure it won't be like the London's "Rent remixed" or the Hollywood Bowl production with the new orchestrations.
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The Very Angry Woman
Broadway Legend / MdN Veteran
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Location: NYC as of 2011. Formerly SF Bay Area.
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! Rent can't stay dead. Just like Mimi.
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ActingDude17
Broadway Legend / MdN Veteran
Joined: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:44 pm
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Location: North Carolina
Current Obsession: Shaw
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! I'm very anxious to see what new life is breathed into the show.
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AneM
Fresh Face
Joined: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:44 am
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Location: Norway
Current Obsession: Les Misérables
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! That's great! I hope Rent will open in London soon too. New York is so far away.. 
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Vichysois
Tony Winner
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:12 am
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Location: US
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! Does that mean that the rights won't be available for regional and community theatre? I don't know the "rules" as far as Broadway and Off-Broadway and all that...
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WickedToo
Broadway Legend
Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:59 pm
Posts: 1494
Location: Ohio
Current Obsession: Bare, Next to Normal
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! Rights to both Rent and Rent: School Edition are available from MTI. They've been available for a while now.  http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail.asp?showid=000281
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ActingDude17
Broadway Legend / MdN Veteran
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Location: North Carolina
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! It's really up to the individual powers-that-be in charge of each show. There aren't any specific rules for these things.
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Vichysois
Tony Winner
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:12 am
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Location: US
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! I know they're available now, but the rights to the Broadway version only became available after the show closed on Broadway however long ago. My question was whether or not the rights would become unavailable again to local theatres when it re-opened off-Broadway. My reason for asking is because getting a new job and moving to another state made me unable to participate in various local productions of the show, and I'm wondering if it will be a long while before I get the chance to do it again.
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She's_My_Sister
Supporting Player
Joined: Sun Apr 18, 2010 10:37 am
Posts: 124
Location: Michigan
Current Obsession: The 1920s, Helena Bonham Carter, Idina Menzel
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! I love RENT as much as the next Renthead, and it would be great to see the show in New York, but I feel that reopening the show so soon is a mistake. I mean, let the people feel a little nostalgia before you bring it back, know what I mean?
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Quique
Broadway Legend / MdN Veteran
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Location: Bitterville
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Re: Rent to Re-Open Off-Broadway!!! Maybe Mimi will croak in this one?
It's being revived waaaay too soon. It will suffer the Les Mis revival syndrome in which eye rollage pretty much summed-up most people's reactions. Why not wait longer, for a time when it will be welcome?
I'm pretty sure no "new life" can "be breathed into the show." Unless they heavily rework it, but then it wouldn't be the same show.
However, in this case, tis a good thing!
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But, who cares! YAY!
