Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
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Composer: Jonathan LarsonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1996-08-27
Music Label: Dreamworks
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Tune Up #1
- Voice Mail #1
- Tune Up #2
- Rent
- You Okay Honey?
- Tune Up #3
- One Song Glory
- Light My Candle
- Voice Mail #2
- Today 4 U
- You'll See
- Tango: Maureen
- Life Support
- Out Tonight
- Another Day
- Will I?
- On The Street
- Santa Fe
- I'll Cover You
- We're Okay
- Christmas Bells
- Over The Moon
- La Vie Boheme
- I Should Tell You
- La Vie Boheme B
- Seasons Of Love
- Happy New Year
- Voice Mail #3
- Happy New Year B
- Take Me Or Leave Me
- Seasons Of Love B
- Without You
- Voice Mail #4
- Contact
- I'll Cover You-Reprise
- Halloween
- Goodbye Love
- What You Own
- Voice Mail #5
- Finale
- Your Eyes
- Finale B
- Seasons Of Love
Free Music Notes for Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: must have for broadway fan and fan of the show
Hit: 5 Stars
Ok, well I L.O.V.E. this CD and play and movie! Here is a short review of MAJOR songs on this cd (no tune-ups or voice mails) on a scale of 1-10! Enjoy!
~Rent~9/10 on this song I like the movie version better but this is still great! Love Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal in this song!
~You Okay Honey?~10/10 this song makes me cry! I love it and Wilson Heredia and Jesse L. Martin are my fave performers! Great song!
~One Song Glory~9.5/10 well I love adam in this song but i like the movie version better! still great. his voice is just better now!
~Light My Candle~8/10 good, fun, hip song but not a fan of Daphne Rubin-Vega's voice in this song!
~Today 4 U~ 10/10 like I said be4 I love Wilson! his Angel is the best! great song
~You'll See~10/10 unlike some of the other songs reviewed already, I like this version better than the movie. Taye is charming and Anthony, Adam, Wilson, and Jesse deliver great comedy! Love it!
~Tango:Maureen~6/10 love this song. NOT A FAN OF FREDI WALKER'S JOANNE! Love Anthony's Mark though!
~Out Tonight~ 10/10 great song and great fun performance from Daphne! She delivers at one of the highlights of the play! Love it!
~Another Day~9/10 for some reason I am always disappointed when I hear Daphne in this song because she just did great in Out Tonight and in this song she doesn't deliver as much! Adam and Life Support group are amazing! Nuff said!
~Sante Fe~7/10 this song is better either in the movie or seen live. still a fun song and jesse delivers!
~I'll Cover You~100/10 (no not a typo) one of my fave parts of the show! like i said love Wilson and Jesse!
~We're Okay~8/10 funny song and fredi actually does a good job on this song! liek i said not a fan of her's so that is a MAJOR compliment!
~Christmas Bells~million/10 one of my fave songs in the play. cried when it wasn't in the movie (yes i really did! i'm pathetic!)
~Over the Moon~ PRICELESS! Idina delivers in the turning point of the show. The whole show centers around her performance "Over the Moon" and this is her performance. however, better seen live or in the movie so you can actually MOO with her!
~La Vie Boheme/I Should Tell You/La Vie Boheme B~PRICELESS! this is my three fave parts of both the movie and the play! hence my username! great three songs to end first act!
~Seasons of Love~10/10 great song, but to me it is to well known by people and so I get kind of sick of it and i like the movie version better! tracie thoms (in movie cast) can sing better than gwen stewart (soloist in play!)
~Happy New Year A&B~million/10 again cried when wasn't in the movie! nuff said!
~Take Me or Leave Me~9/10 again Idina delivers but don't like fredi as much! see tracie thoms take over her roll in the movie! now Tracie is talented!
~Without You~10/10 great and emotional song. for some reason though I think Rosario Dawson (from movie) is better than Daphne in this song. still fantastic
~Contact~6/10 least favorite song in Rent. to me it is a weird way to spend Angel and Collins' last moments together. still good but Jonathan Larson did better!
~I'll Cover You (Reprise)~10/10 great, sad, cry every time! jesse and cast as whole deliver! great song. saddest part of the play
~Halloween~9/10 sad song, makes me feel bad for mark beautiful performance by Anthony
~Goodbye Love~9/10 good song, well written but to me the movie version is more emotional. Daphne isn't quite at her best in this song. Rosario, however, delivered in the movie. again just me.
~What You Own~10/10 good, rock 'n' roll moment and song in the play! adam and anthony did great in this song!
~Finale~10/10 Better than the movie version. Whole cast (minus Taye Diggs and Wilson Heredia who aren't a part of this song) deliver and are fantastic.
~Your Eyes~9/10 good, emotional song but I still like adam in One Song Glory better
~Finale B~9/10 like the song but the whole i jumped over the moooooo thing takes away from the beautiful moment. movie version better!
overall, great CD. get this one and the movie version. both are fantastic and both have their moments of weakness and greatness. overall great! Adam Pascal is Roger. Anthony Rapp is Mark. Taye Diggs is Benny. Jesse L. Martin is Collins. Wilson Heredia is Angel. Idina Menzel is Maureen. Daphne Rubin-Vega is Mimi. Fredi Walker is Joanne. Tracie Thoms is Joanne in the movie version. Rosario Dawson is Mimi in the movie and the rest are the same in OBC and movie! Enjoy!
Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast) Poster
Into Broadway's creative vacuum of revivals, movie adaptations, and Hollywood star vehicles comes Rent, the story of squatters, junkies, performance artists, struggling musicians, drag queens, aspiring filmmakers, and HIV-positives (and you thought Miss Saigon's helicopter landing was cool). Undoubtedly among the defining pop cultural events of 1996, Rent has already won four Tony awards and a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. More importantly, it threatens to bring substance back to the Great White Way.Transposing Puccini's 100-year-old opera La Bohème into modern day Bohemia (19th-century Paris's Left Bank becomes late-20th-century New York's East Village where the scourge of tuberculosis becomes the plague of AIDS) Rent celebrates life among the young, sick, and unconventional. While Broadway shows are hardly the place for authentic portrayals of the latest marginalized hipsters, composer Jonathan Larson (who died at age 36, days before his musical opened) managed to sculpt vivid characters and scenes that bring Avenue A as close as it will ever come to 42nd Street. And by telling a socially relevant story of living without the guarantee of a future (renting, that is), Larson does his own little bit to define an X'ed generation. At worst, Rent is the Hair of the '90s.
For the majority of us who won't be seeing Rent anytime soon, the Original Cast Recording is more than just an after-show souvenir. Well-packaged with a complete libretto, the two-CD set is a worthwhile album separate of live performance. Full of songs that are funny and catchy, inspiring and touching, smart and hip and not overly sentimental, Rent mixes showtune pop with elements of rock, R&B, dance, gospel, and tango to make one of the best albums of the year--certainly the best rock opera in decades. La vie bohème, indeed. --Roni Sarig
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