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Brandon Victor Dixon, Vanessa Hudgens, Keala Settle, Jordan Fisher Set for Fox's Rent Live! |


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Posted: 10/29/18 at 1:53pm
Jordan Fisher as Mark feels... wrong.


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Posted: 10/29/18 at 1:54pm
My gut was telling me it would've been Ben Platt, plus that's who most fans wanted, but I'm interested in Fisher taking on the role. He also has done very well for himself since Grease Live.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 1:57pm
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:00pm
My thoughts about this line - "celebrated performer Valentina (RuPaul's Drag Race) as Angel."
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:12pm
I'm excited to see Tinashe's acting chops. Vanessa Hudgens is great in everything she does, but I wish Maureen would've went to Liz Gillies. She would've been perfection.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:12pm
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Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:15pm
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:17pm
This is... a very unexciting cast.


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Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:18pm
Also
Brandon is 37. Keala is 42. Have we not learned our lesson about casting older people as the 20 year olds RENT focuses on? Because it's kinda pathetic and hard to listen to when there are 20 year olds playing those characters. It's impossibly pathetic and hard to listen to when they're over 30 (as the movie showed).
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:19pm
To be fair, Keala Settle is just playing the "Seasons of Love" soloist. She's not a named character.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:27pm
Fisher as Mark is a super interesting choice. Mark to me always seemed partially defined by his privilege - parents who love him/good family, white, straight, sober, and HIV negative. A huge part of his character is the question of "why are you here, Mark? This is not your fight. This has nothing to do with you." and where there is room for 'supporting a friend' vs 'making it about you'.
So a non-white Mark is an interesting choice. I will be really interested to see how that effects his character.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:28pm
I always got the sense that Collins (a character supposedly inspired by Tom Waits) was older than the others, the ex-professor of the group instead of a dropout.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:30pm
The involvement of the Larson estate at least makes me hope that the production won't be sanitized for Prime Time, like the movie was.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:37pm
Roscoe said: "The involvement of the Larson estate at least makes me hope that the production won't be sanitized for Prime Time, like the movie was."
The Larson estate was involved with the 2005 film version as well.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:38pm
Sondheimite said: "Also
Brandon is 37. Keala is 42. Have we not learned our lesson about casting older people as the 20 year olds RENT focuses on? Because it's kinda pathetic and hard to listen to when there are 20 year olds playing those characters. It's impossibly pathetic and hard to listen to when they're over 30 (as the movie showed)."
Keala Settle isn't playing a character. She shows up to sing one song then leaves, because I can't imagine they're not splitting the "Mark's Mom and others" track.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:44pm
Roscoe said: "The involvement of the Larson estate at least makes me hope that the production won't be sanitized for Prime Time, like the movie was."
SethMH93 said "The Larson estate was involved with the 2005 film version as well"
Oh, well.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:47pm
darquegk said: "I always got the sense that Collins (a character supposedly inspired by Tom Waits) was older than the others, the ex-professor of the group instead of a dropout."
Collins has to be older, no? I don't think that he would have been able to do all that he says he's done if were a twentysomething like the rest of them.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:50pm
And I think Roger, Mark, Maureen etc have to at least be a few years out of college for their pessimistic view of the world to be rooted in anything
I'd guess
Mark, Roger and Maureen are between 24-27
Collins and Joanne are in their 30s
Mimi and Angel are the young ones.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 2:52pm
It appears that the actor playing Roger's music experience is mainly county. I wonder if they'll put that spin on the role at all?
Posted: 10/29/18 at 3:05pm
hmaybway said: "It appears that the actor playing Roger's music experience is mainly county. I wonder if they'll put that spin on the role at all?"
Oh, god.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 3:07pm
I think casting someone from "RuPaul's Drag Race" as Angel is an inspired choice and a good move in terms of publicity but...Valentina?
I'm also a bit puzzled by Jordan Fisher as Mark.
Posted: 10/29/18 at 3:08pm
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Posted: 10/29/18 at 1:52pm