Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
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Free Music Notes for Rent (1996 Original Broadway Cast)
Free Music Review: Another Review for another day
Hit: 5 Stars
The song "Another day" from the muscial rent is the most meaningful song on the first CD. It speaks of the difficulty of loving another person after their love has died. Rodger refuses to fall for Mimi and her addiction to drugs. Because his last lover died from drugs. Although he can not help his attraction to Mim when she sings,"Out tonight" he must bite his lip and continue with his life trying very hard to make her not be a part of it. He is very insuklted that she barged in while he was trying to write a song on his guitar. It makes it clear that if they had met at another time things might have been different. Then Mimi tries to explain that she knows how he feels but he needs to move on. she expresses that they need to get together "tonight" or else it would be too late. "No Day But Today" Download this song and listen to the words, they are very meaningful. The songs in RENT each have very different meaning and subjects, all leading to a beautiful selection of music. Even though it is mostly pop-rock select songs are gorgeous.Free Music Review: Wow ... Very Moving Score!
Hit: 5 Stars
Fortunately, I had the opportunity to see the original cast of "Rent" during its first year ... and was totally blown-away by the production!
The cast was full of great new talent, including Adam Pascal ("Aida"), Anthony Rapp ("You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown"), Daphne Rubin-Vega, Idina Menzel ("Wicked", "The Wild Party"), Taye Diggs ("The Wild Party", "Chicago") and provided such energy to Jonathan Larson's thought-provoking & emotional production. With it's rock-based arrangements, a whole new generation was introduced to theatre!
The cd itself makes for a great pop/rock album & gets better with repeated listenings.
Though most are terrific, best tracks include:
Rent
One Song Glory
Light My Candle
Another Day
Santa Fe
I'll Cover You
La Vie Boheme
Seasons Of Love (the show's most notable hit)
Take Me Or Leave Me
What You Own
If you prefer to listen to only the songs (as opposed to the whole score), try the "highlights" single disc cd. Both are terrific!
Free Music Review: It Grew On Me
Hit: 5 Stars
I first encountered Rent about a year ago. My best friend's mom was a total Rent fan. I'll own right now, that I hated it. I couldn't abide to listen to it. Seasons of Love was a good song, but the rest of the two CD's were painful to listen to.Eventually, my other friends weaned me onto Rent, song by song starting with 'One Song Glory' which remains my favorite. I now admit that Rent is the most powerful and moving show on Broadway right now. I'm still warming up to the voice mails and the tune ups though. The CD is packed with great songs. My only regret is that Jonathan Larson died, and wasn't able to write more music.
The cast is exceptionable. While some members might not be the best singers you could find, they embody the characters perfectly. You can really feel the emotions they are feeling, its spectacular. Adam Pascal (Roger) is definitely my favorite cast member. I would give anything to see him in that role, unfortunately though, he left the show for Aida, which is also very good.
Rent will grow on you, depend upon it. I was moved by this special piece of music.
Free Music Review: The best of the 90's
Hit: 5 Stars
RENT is a tour de force of emotions, relationships, convictions, promises and lies. The music is beautifully melodic in some areas and grooving funk in others. It's rock 'n' roll and it's classic musical style. It follows the ageless tradition of musicals that have preceeded and it has started something wonderful for musicals of the future to draw from for years to come.The roles are deep and complex but they're just about as everyday as you can get. They're a bunch of friends, enemies and lovers in NYC trying to live their dreams, but trying to do it in the purest way possible. Mark's performance is the pivotal one, narrating and tying the individual stories together, and Roger's is the most painful. Tom is sensibility and Angel is reason. Every facet of human nature and human emotion is present in this recording and this whole show. It is a marvel of modern theatre and the music is brilliant. The words are all like poems, beautiful epic poems. They'll make you cry and they'll make you think and they'll most of all make you ponder life. No day but today!!!
Free Music Review: Give it a chance
Hit: 5 Stars
I got this CD for Christmas, having asked for it. I like Broadway musicals a lot. I expected great things from Rent, and to be totally honest I must say I was disappointed when I first listened to it. What was with the voicemails and Maureen's lot performance? A few weeks later, though, I picked up the lyrics and plot summary out of boredom, and listned to the CDs again. Then again. I grew to love the music more than the Broadway classics I've heard. Rent had something else, a little Je ne sais quoi to it. There's something about Rent that makes you love it if you just give it a chance. There's a life to this show that no other has, not Phantom, Ragtime, Sound of Music, King and I, or Kiss Me Kate. You're what You Own, in the second act can relate to us all at the beginning of this new millenium. What Rent shows us is the fear we all have: Dying without making a difference in this world. Mark with his film, Roger and his song, all the characters in Rent reflect it in this world gone mad. Rent is a work that truly comes from the soul.