Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
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#0Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 10:54am
Hey, everyone. I just found this on the website for the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation, so I guess this is the official date...
Save the Date! Celebrate the 10th anniversary of RENT at a benefit performance with the original cast for the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation, Friends In Deed and New York Theatre Workshop on Monday, April 24th, 2006.
http://www.jlpaf.org/what%27s_new.html
Now I've got to fundraise and convince my parents to let me skip school, but it'll be worth it.
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'Nothing is more probable,' said the Professor..."
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'Nothing is more probable,' said the Professor..."
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
#1re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:50amSo, is this something different than the supposed reunion concert? I'm guessing no, since it's around the correct time. Gah. I need MONEY.
#2re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 11:58amI hope they have a few "cheap" seats like they did for the reunion concert several years ago. Come on powers that be! We need some $50-100 seats. "Benefit" always scares me...it typically translates to: "way more than a student can afford!"
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
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#3re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:03pm
I'm guessing that this is what Anthony Rapp was talking about in his post on the movie blog, LuvtheEmcee, since it's pretty much the week that the show will celebrate it's anniversary... but I could be wrong.
And Mabel, "benefit" scared me too. I'm glad that the money they raise with the event is going to such a worthwhile cause, but there's no denying that I'd love to be there and that money will probably pose a problem.
"'But do you really mean, sir,' said Peter, 'that there could be other worlds --all over the place, just round the corner-- like that?'
'Nothing is more probable,' said the Professor..."
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
'Nothing is more probable,' said the Professor..."
-The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
#4re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:22pm
Well, let's put it this way. When I heard "reunion," I figured tickets would be like full-price theatre ticketes: a lot for a student anyway, but do-able. And, I had simply figured "I'll be there. No matter what."
Then, I saw "benefit," and just went "oh, well, I guess... not."
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#5re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:28pmHmmm...I am fortunate to have saved a lot of money from jobs, also helps that I don't pay witht that money for much of my own stuff, usually save it for vacations and a broadway show here and there that i have to pay for with it. Hmmm, even if this is a couple hundred though, it really may be worth it...I'll hafta see about it, and keep saving on the money...
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#6re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:30pmWell, I guess I'll wait and see how much it *really* ends up being - I mean, if it's like tickets for Actors' Fund stuff, thta's kind of out. If it's a few hundred, I can... see less shows next semester or something.
#7re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:36pmBut don't the Actors' Fund Benefits usually have some $75-ish seats. It's more than I'd like to spend, but I could still swing that. If they're going to be $250-Anywhere in the thousands, that's just not going to happen. It's great that they do benefits to raise money, but I think they should always try to keep a couple of rows for students or something. There are tons of benefits I'd love to go to (24 Hour Plays, The Lab's Celeb Charades, etc.) but it's just not financially feasible. I guess we'll just have to wait and see, and I'll count myself lucky that I caught the last reunion!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#8re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:37pmCue me saving up money now.
#9re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:41pm
They do, Mabel. But you need to take Dramamine if you want to go anywhere near the $50 seats. I don't know if it's worth feeling like I'm going to plummet to my death for two and a half hours.
And I agree - I think it's great to have benefits, and I'd love to do more, but... I'm a poor college kid.
#10re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:47pmAs much as I would love to go to this, I am assuming money WILL be an issue. However, I don't think I will be that disappointed if I don't end up going. I feel very lucky to have gone to Adam and Daphne's concert at Kean University last year (and heard them sing Glory, Light My Candle, Out Tonight, and Another Day) and will be able to see most of the OBC reprise their role in the movie. You simply cannot go to every there is and have to pick and choose what you'd want to see. (Plus you can bet on me being in Bryant Park on August 4th - yay for free.)
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#11re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:48pm
TGIF - let's camp out. And you're so logical. :-P
#12re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:57pmI guess it depends where they have the concert. The other RENT benefit was at Studio 54. I don't think the rear mezz there is that bad, so I'd be fine paying $50 or so to be in the back there (actually, I think the $50 seats last time started around Row D, so you could've lucked out getting quasi-decent seats for a "fair" price!) I guess I'll wait to worry about this until they start announcing some more finite details. I've got too many concerts and shows I want to see to start saving money for it. Whatever it is, it is, I guess!
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#13re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 12:58pm
Logical? I think the right word is "Cheap"! 
Campout? For what, August 4th?
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
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#14re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 2:55pmall this money we're putting out for college BETTER make us verry wealthy so that in a few years from now this won't be an issue! am i right? lol
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cudramacat
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#15re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:34pmomg! i want to go SO incredibly bad!!! Any idea when tix will go on sale? Darn! it's a monday! That's not gonna work w/ the college schedule....grrr!
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#16re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:53pmWell, I'm not visiting colleges this fall, so I can use that money...I was going to New York anyway. *crosses fingers* Please god of theatre geeks, make it possible for me to be there. I'll do nearly anything.
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2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
#17re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 3:58pm
Damn..I'll be in London then..no NY for me 
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
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#18re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:00pmSupposidly someone recieved an e-mail saying that invitations will be sent out 6 to 7 weeks before offering tickets ranging from $1,000 to $1,500. Thats a little out of my price range.
#19re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:00pm
And this information is from... where?
That could certainly be truth, but rumours are going to fly everywhere about this thing - and some anonymous source supposedly recieving an e-mail, and information with no named source being posted on a message board are the types of things by which they start.
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#20re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 5:10pmif they're smart, they'll record it and add it as a special feature to the RENT movie DVD.
#21re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:10pmI'd almost rather it be outrageously expensive ($1,000-1,500)...that'd certainly make my decision a hell of a lot easier!...almost.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
nodaybut2day2007
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#22re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:21pm
Ok I e-mailed the foundation to double check the information and here is the response I got:
"The original cast will do a concert version of the show on the set at the Nederlander on April 24th. The tickets are priced at $1500 for the orchestra and mezzanine and $1000 for the balcony. The front row will be sold at $25, in keeping with the RENT tradition and will be available by lottery, but we haven't determined that mechanism yet."
SO there will be a lotto but I dont think that is going to be easy to win. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.
#23re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:25pmWell, that's going to be bloody impossible. Where in HELL am I going to get a thousand bucks?
#24re: Date for RENT's Tenth Anniversary Benefit
Posted: 7/15/05 at 6:29pm
Wow, that's *really* expensive! I'm just gonna work my ass off for the next bunch of months and see if I have enough money by then...
Or, I'll just be crazy and do the lotto.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
