{"id":4673,"date":"2019-01-28T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2019-01-28T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:45:10","slug":"rent-live-or-das-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/rent-live-or-das-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Rent Live or Das Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed&nbsp;<strong><em>Rent: Live<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;was a bit less live than planned.&nbsp; Towards the end of Saturday\u2019s dress rehearsal,&nbsp;<strong>Brennin Hunt&nbsp;<\/strong>broke his foot, thus thwarting most of the live telecast.&nbsp; That\u2019s why dress rehearsals are recorded \u2013 just in case.&nbsp; So, the&nbsp;<em>FOX<\/em>&nbsp;telecast featured the cast saying, \u201cWe have rallied together to rework the final act so that all of us \u2013 including Brennin and the original&nbsp;<em>Broadway&nbsp;<\/em>cast of&nbsp;<em>Rent&nbsp;<\/em>\u2013 can perform it for you\u2026live.\u201d&nbsp; Ultimately, only the final 15 minutes of the telecast was live \u2013 although the show was performed live for the in-studio audience \u2013 with Brennin in a wheelchair (we\u2019ll share some footage on&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"filth\">BillyMasters.com<\/a><\/strong>).&nbsp; As to the original cast, they came out and sang the reprise of \u201cSeasons of Love\u201d \u2013 which, to be charitable, was more than enough.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the major star was the show itself; and the production.&nbsp; Set on a sprawling soundstage, the camera work integrated the live audience seamlessly.&nbsp; And there were little touches I appreciated \u2013 including a laugh at the expense of Mark\u2019s original sweater.&nbsp; While the cast was uniformly adequate for a TV adaptation miked within an inch of its life, I\u2019ll focus on the positives and send kudos out to two people.&nbsp; First, the fabulous&nbsp;<strong>Valentina&nbsp;<\/strong>as Angel.&nbsp; The role was performed spectacularly, even if the singing was undeniably weak.&nbsp; The all-around MVP (including vocals) was&nbsp;<strong>Brandon Victor Dixon&nbsp;<\/strong>as Tom Collins.&nbsp; All in all, I expected nothing less \u2013 or, for that matter, more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed&nbsp;Rent: Live&nbsp;was a bit less live than planned.&nbsp; Towards the end of Saturday\u2019s dress rehearsal,&nbsp;Brennin Hunt&nbsp;broke his foot, thus thwarting most of the live telecast.&nbsp; That\u2019s why dress rehearsals are recorded \u2013 just in case.&nbsp; So, the&nbsp;FOX&nbsp;telecast featured the cast saying, \u201cWe have rallied together to rework the final act so that all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4674,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}