Posted on 01/28/2019 9:55:10 AM PST by C19fan
The not-quite-live performance comes in at the low end of the decade's trend of televised musicals. Fox's staging of Rent underperformed Sunday night, drawing ratings at the bottom of the list of TV musicals aired in recent years.
Sunday's performance — which consisted largely of pre-filmed footage from Saturday's dress rehearsal after star Brennin Hunt broke his foot near the end of the run-through — posted a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 and 3.42 million viewers over its three-hour running time. Those are the smallest numbers for any of the four musicals Fox has aired since 2016.
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A friend dragged me to that play back in the 90’s. A steaming pile of self-pitying tripe, wherein the characters all lamented their awful lot in life, while very deliberately ignoring how their own “choices” and “lifestyles” got them there. Worst show I’ve ever seen.
I’ll stick to Puccini and “La Boheme” thank you. Call me old-fashioned.
As usual I watched “Outlander”. A classy adaption of fine novels.
Then it is safe to assume that you haven't seen the Broadway Musical Urinetown
Urinetown.... Amazing what twisted minds will come up with.
Team America’s version pretty much summed it up.
Thanks for this nugget. I wouldn’t have known about Rent if you hadn’t posted about it.
RENT was a HORRIBLE play/musical...
the tunes were catchy.. but the story and plot etc were absolute garbage....
It won awards because of its subject matter, nothing else...
Literally in a year or whatever the time frame of the entire play was supposed to be, not a SINGLE CHARACTER.. NOT ONE... had ANY growth... they were all the exact same as they were at the start of the play... What kind of storytelling is that? CRAPTASTICALLY AWEFUL, THAT’S WHAT...
I sadly sat through the film version of this crap fest back when they made the film, because someone else in my house wanted to watch it... I have no problem with the subject matter, yes the AIDS epidemic at its peak was devastating. Living with it was not easy.. so I have no issue you want to tell story involving people who’s lifestyles I disagree with.. But it was JUST TERRIBLE STORYTELLING, PERIOD.
You want to have a big musical number celebrating the fact you are a hedonist? Fine, you are a hedonist... but refusing to accept that hedonism contributes to your troubles? That’s mental illness.
Anyway, I am sure the cast did fine, but its just not a good story, period... the subject matter will indeed keep some from watching, but even so I am not surprised it got no audience, RENT just is bad storytelling.
And yes, I seem to get “dragged” to a lot of shows that I’d never go to of my own choice...
I wonder if we’ll ever see a Blazing Saddles musical, like they did with The Producers and Young Frankenstein.
My fear is that they would PC it up from the movie.
Not just that... a story about self pity is fine... the reason RENT sucked so bad though, wasn’t the subject matter... or even the self pity.. but the simple fact, in what was supposed to be a year or whatever in these peoples lives, and all the things they went through individually and collectively NOT A ONE SHOWED ANY PERSONAL GROWTH.. the characters at the end are exactly the same at the beginning, and that’s just bad story telling.
The musical numbers were catchy enough, but the only reason this thing got the awards it did, was the subject matter, the story telling was aweful.
Rent?
Is this a documentary on the best political party of all time:
The Rent is too damn high Party!
Well, whatever the case, I’m not interested in watching Rent.
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