Last week I thought of giving up smoking. Not because of my health, but because I wanted to have a valid reason
for feeling like shit.
I was succesful...
in finding a valid reason.
I realized that I am
not meant to succeed
at anything.
Excuse me while I light another cigarette...
And yes... I am the freak in the picture.
31.7.08
Goodbye, Love...
Mark your calendars RENTheads. It's an end of an era indeed. After 12 years, RENT is closing. The final Broadway performance will be on September 7, 2008.
I'm really sad. RENT is My Musical. It's the musical that made me fall in love with musicals. I've loved it ever since that day, about 11 years ago, when I found the Broadway Cast album among a stack of CDs that my sister brought home from work. I listened to it once, and have never stopped measuring my life in love since.
I was thinking that the reason that I've never had the chance to see it live here whenever they did it was because I was meant to watch it there at Nederlander Theatre in NY but I guess I just have to accept that, along with most of my hopes and dreams, it's just not meant to be.
It isn't exactly impossible... All I need to go see it are the following:
$250 for the theater ticket
$2500 for airfare
Divine intervention from at least 2 out of the 3 members of the Holy Trinity to enable me to get both a passport and a 1-day US tourist visa in just 4 weeks.
Harhar! :p
I'm kind of hoping that one of the Filipino theater companies that have already done RENT might do a one-night-only performance or something for all the pinoy RENTheads.
As a tribute I'm going to make a ringer that I'm going to ask all of my friends to use until the 7th of September. I'll post a link where to download it when I'm done.
"To days of inspiration, playing hooky, making something out of nothing
The need to express, to communicate
To going against the grain, going insane, going mad
To loving tension, no pension
To more than one dimension
To starving for attention
Hating convention, hating pretension
Not to mention, of course, hating dear-old mom and dad
To riding your bike midday past the 3-piece suits,
to fruits, to no absolutes
to Absolute! To choice! To the Village Voice!
To any passing fad!
To being an 'us' for once...
Instead of a 'them'!
La Vie Boheme!"
- La Vie Boheme, Disc 1-Track 23 from RENT: Original Broadway Cast Recording
posted by jeanne @ 07:13
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