Coming To A Theater Near You. Again.

Rent is coming to theaters. No, you're not having an acid flashback to 2005. The stage show, set to end its run on Broadway on September 7th, will have its final performance filmed and digitally shown in more than 500 theaters September 24- 28. The performance will feature the current Broadway cast and a couple of special appearances by original cast members. (I'm hoping for more age-appropriate roles for those original cast members, who valiantly came back and tried to portray characters a decade younger than they were in the 2005 Revolution Studios theatrical version.) You can check out the trailer for the special event.

I was lucky enough to have seen the Broadway show with its original cast (thus began my decade long crush on Taye Diggs) but I was 18 at the time and from a small town in the upper Midwest. Suffice it to say I didn't really get it. Kudos to the organizers for making this show available to people across the country who might not have otherwise had the chance to see it in its original form. Seeing as how tickets to see the performance live are going for upwards of a $1,000, ten bucks at your local Cineplex is a bargain for the experience. Hopefully those screens can do it justice. Worst case scenario, the most it does is convince a swath of the country that they should really go out and get a job.

Loading...

Add a comment

BLOG ARCHIVES

The Moviefile

December 2008

9 Entries

November 2008

61 Entries

October 2008

102 Entries

September 2008

86 Entries

August 2008

99 Entries

July 2008

116 Entries

June 2008

95 Entries

May 2008

86 Entries

April 2008

67 Entries

March 2008

14 Entries

Blog Categories

Accidents Do Happen

39 Entries

Box Office Tally

47 Entries

Cool Nerds Guide

2 Entries

Foreign Relations

23 Entries

Girls on Film

23 Entries

I Voted for GORE!

53 Entries

I Want My DVD

23 Entries

It's a Major Award!

18 Entries

Legal Eaglese

14 Entries

Martial Artistry

4 Entries

Momentous Occasions

18 Entries

Musicalifornication

22 Entries

Sci-Fidelity

39 Entries

Separate but Sequel

140 Entries

Strike Watch

13 Entries

The Biz

96 Entries

The Casting Conch

133 Entries

The Kongs of Comedy

73 Entries

Top of the

0 Entries

Top of the MWoP

4 Entries

Trailer Trashing

22 Entries

We Call Do-Over

100 Entries

You Know, For Kids!

55 Entries