Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#1Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:07am
Haven't these people suffered enough?
"According to UK's The Telegraph, the first Broadway musical to play in Cuba in 50 years will open this Christmas Eve, December 24th. RENT will debut to an audience of Cubans, most of whom, according to the article, "will never in their lives have seen a musical on that scale."
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If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:28am
I agree but it could be worse. It could be a Wildhorn show right?
Only kidding with the Wildhorn remark.
Poster Emeritus
#2Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:30amNo, that actually sounds about right.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#3Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:38amI see old Fidel & Raul coming to opening night in formal fatigues.
Poster Emeritus
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 10:59am
I'm sure what the people who have lived under a Communist dictator their whole lives want to hear is a bunch of American slackers singing "How we gonna pay this year's rent? Last year's rent? Next year's rent?"
Plus, Rent has become a very dated musical.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 11:02am
Good point
After seeing this they may not want to come to the U.S.
Poster Emeritus
#6Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 11:14am
And that's the best possible outcome, right, Rox?
CHURCH DOOR TOUCAN GAY MARKETING PUPPIES MUSICAL THEATER STAPLES PERIOD OIL BITCHY SNARK HOLES
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#7Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 11:27am
I have a colleague who worked on this. I'm not going to share the post, but s/he said the experience was a very powerful and moving experience. Rewarding. It was of a necessity a very crude and amateurish performance, but that the audience was demonstrably overwhelmed.
May this be the first of many.
#8Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 1:14pmAnd may the next one be Fiddler.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#9Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 6:07pm
"And may the next one be Fiddler."
Or Hello Dolly, or Mame, or 42nd Street or Annie or The Music Man or anything with a happy, uplifting score
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
#10Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/23/14 at 8:34pmI think Cubans would enjoy that great look at capitalism, How to Succeed in Business.
Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#11Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/24/14 at 12:34pmI need sleep because my mind somehow made the jump to Cuba Good Jr. performing in RENT. I must have disregarded the 50 years part.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#12Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/24/14 at 1:14pmOk, k'vetch, k'vetch, k'vetch all the way but I think this is a fantastic choice and likely to be well received in Cuba.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#13Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/24/14 at 2:35pm
Just look a few posts up, henrik. I know someone personally involved in this. Strangers in the audience were openly weeping in each others' arms. Theater is a very powerful thing and this little podunk production had a powerful affect on people, who hadn't seen a show in decades.
This is a beautiful thing. Perhaps we are too spoilt here to remember how we felt when we saw our first show..
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#14Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/25/14 at 1:18pm
Ah, Ghostlight,
k'vell k'vell k'vell!
love it!
#15Rent is Cuba's First Broadway Musical in 50 Years
Posted: 12/25/14 at 9:04pmDoes Roger have to wear a Che Guevara Shirt?
