What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Akitarent
Leading Actor Joined: 10/3/04
#0What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 8:50pm
I talked to Anthony about the cast and their busy day. He said they had photoshoots after Byrant Park AND...
They were recording at night a song for the end credits of the film. He said he couldn't give out any more details about what song but it is a song Jonathan wrote (so he doubts unless the academy makes a exception it will get an Oscar nomination for song).
#1re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 8:52pm
Wow, long day for those guys.
It's all so exciting!
LuvBroadwayHugs
Broadway Star Joined: 6/20/05
#2re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 8:57pmThat's very cool! Then they CAN get an oscar. Because didn't the same thing happen for Phantom? ALW wrote that new song for the credits and they got a nod. Or has Larson's song been used in something else? Do we know?
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Akitarent
Leading Actor Joined: 10/3/04
#3re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 8:59pmWell this song wasn't written directly ofr the movie and I assume it was used for something else beforehand. He seems doubtful it would be nomiated unless they make an exception
#4re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 9:00pm
ha, he loves to give speculation materials, doesn't he? 
Let it fly...
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#5re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 9:02pmlbh, it won't be able to be nominated if jonathan wrote it, because, um... he couldn't have written a new song for this movie.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#6re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 9:13pmmaybe it's a song that he wrote before he passed and they are re-working it and incorporating it into the film. everything he intended for rent didn't make it into the final version...
Akitarent
Leading Actor Joined: 10/3/04
#7re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/5/05 at 9:36pm
very true
I'd love to see even though I know they wouldn't make sense (just the fact a legit recording with the cast) Love Heals, or Open Road
downbeat
Chorus Member Joined: 6/5/05
#8re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:18am
Unfortunately, I still don't think it would be eligible for a Best Song Oscar even if it was written by Jonathan before he passed and unused in anything else. The Academy rules clearly state a song must be written specifically FOR THE FILM to be eligible.
From http://www.oscars.org/75academyawards/rules/index_text.html (emphasis mine):
II. Original Song:
An original song consists of words and music, both of which are original and written specifically for the film. There must be a clearly audible, intelligible, substantive rendition (not necessarily visually presented) of both lyric and melody, used in the body of the film or as the first song in the end credits.
"Valtava, iso pullean hurmaava HITTI." New York Post (as quoted by Hairspray, Finnish Regional Production.)
#9re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:26am
I hope it's the cast singing "Boho Days". 
nodaybut2day2007
Featured Actor Joined: 5/29/05
#10re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:27amWhat if he wrote it with the intent of RENT being filmed. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
nodaybut2day2007
Featured Actor Joined: 5/29/05
#11re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:27amWhat if he wrote it with the intent of RENT being filmed. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
#12re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:33amI doubt that, considering he didn't even live long enough to know what kind of impact the show was going to have and how huge it was going to get.
#13re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:35am
haha maybe theyre finally recording "DOOR/WALL!" hahaha
(for anyone who saw daphne on seths chatterbox, she said there was a song cut from rent of adam staring at the door and the wall trying to decide whether to chase after mimi or stare at the wall.. and the song just simply went.. the door.. the wall.. the door.. the wall..... lol could you IMAGINE if that stayed in the show)
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Chloe
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/04
#14re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:41amWell, I'd love to hear Adam sing that some day. Whatever the song is, it sounds like an ensemble number that they're all going to sing.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#15re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:44amIt's weird you all think of something we've never heard of, my first thought was something from Tick Tick Boom. I dunno, I think something like "Louder than Words" maybe cutting the birthday at the end would mesh well with Rent and Jonathan and his message, and I'd love to hear the cast sing that.
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#16re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:50am
Although I would love to hear Louder Than Words in a movie theater, I don't think the cast would use a song that actually exists within the narrative of another musical. After all, TTB just might be adapted into a film one day too. Gotta keep things fresh.
Updated On: 8/6/05 at 12:50 AM
#17re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:52am
Wow, I laughed out loud at the image of Adam singing about a door and a wall.
I think that (barring correct casting and the like) TTB would make an excellent film. Raúl once talked about that he'd like to see it make it to film one day.
#18re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 12:58am
I'm not sure that "Johnny Can't Decide" or "Come to Your Senses" would translate seamlessly to the screen. Perhaps we've gotten ahead of ourselves in the wake of Chicago. But hell, the music is gorgeous. I'd love to see such seemingly stagebound shows as The Last Five Years, Parade and Ragtime vastly reworked for the screen. (I'd go into shock right here in the chair if I were to search google one day and find that a film version of Ragtime was in the works.)
But post-Rent, my greatest hope is that Jason Robert Brown will be solicited to write an original musical for the big screen. If anyone can do it well, it's him.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#19re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:19am
Hmm...I suppose I could see the point of if they planned to make it into a movie..
However, that's the only reason I could think not to do it. Even though it technically was written for another musical, to me it's all interconnected. If TTB is a musical about the creator of Rent, then I dunno I love the idea of it being played over the end credits, sorta a final...recognition of Jonathan? I personally see it fitting in well with Rent, but again, I do see the TTB-movie argument. But I personally think there's a slim chance, at least in the upcoming future. Maybe years down the road...oh well.
Too late, I'm already imagining the cast singing that song...wow, it sounds amazing in my head.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
#20re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:20am
There was a movie, Ragtime, based upon the same booked the spawned the musical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime_%28novel%29
The Cast included:
James Cagney
Brad Dourif
Moses Gunn
Elizabeth McGovern
Kenneth McMillan
James Olson
Mandy Patinkin
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Mary Steenburgen
Debbie Allen
I don't think it did very well in terms of box office back then, but it was an amazing film.
#21re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:26amThe film version of Ragtime wasn't all that. Part of it has to do with who's billed first - James Cagney, in a role that isn't even key but was hyped up back in 1981 to the point that everything else about the film was overshadowed.
#22re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:31am
Different strokes for different folks. I can't argue with you if you did not like it as much, though I agree with the Cagney comment.
While he got top billing, because of who he was, the person I remember from the film is Howard Rollins, who I thought was amazing. I still remember screen shots and passages from that movies, and certain images.
But, I am no movie critic. Just someone who appreciated the film. So, again, different strokes. The main point of my post was to point out that movie did in fact exist.
WiCkEDrOcKS
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#23re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:33amLet's hope the song is a hell of a lot better than POTO's. Same goes for the film in general.
#24re: What Anthony Rapp said at the Today Show /New Song for the Movie?
Posted: 8/6/05 at 1:38am
Oh, Howard Rollins delivered an amazing performance that should've won him that Oscar - especially in the supporting category.
What's really funny is that I own two copies of the film - the videos and the DVD. I watch the film fairly often, but I think it could've been so much better. It really does not make adequate use of the source material. Rollins gives an excellent performance but the absence of so many historic figures and the film's failure to weave them together as the book did means that Coalhouse's apparent motivations for the bombings are reduced to the death of his wife and not getting justice over the damaged Model T. That may be motivation enough but the explanation Doctorow gives (which relates clearly to JP Morgan, Emma Goldman, Evelyn Nesbit, Booker T. Washington, Henry Ford and Harry Houdini) is far more interesting.
The book simply must be filmed again. In fact, there was a CBS miniseries in the works six years ago but the project fell through due to budgeting. Doctorow approved the screenplay and everything... Sad.
