hey this is Leslie this week in fun
facts with Leslie we’re going to be
talking about rent which is just out on
DVD our rent is particularly interesting
because it’s based on the 1996 Pulitzer
prize-winning play by Jonathan Larson
which is in turn based on bikinis
original La Boheme so it’s about a
bohemian lifestyle it’s set in 1989 in
New York City and it was originally
framed for the stage in 1995 now
Jonathan Larson who is the creator of
rent actually died on the night of the
broadway opening and because it’s a lot
about AIDS people assume that that’s how
he passed away but in truth the I was
unlucky he just had a brain aneurysm so
clay became exceptionally successful and
people all over the world got into it
because even if they weren’t able to go
to New York to see the play the music
was just so phenomenal that it really
touched people like I said all across
the world cut to ten years later and
director Chris Columbus decided he was
going to try and make it into a film and
this is very interesting for a few
reasons first of all rent is a musical
it’s not 1960 anymore so it’s a big leap
to make a musical feature number two
Chris Columbus is somebody who really
recognized as someone who does laughs
accommodate for example home alone and
so this was a bit of a departure for him
too but it works and I think what makes
it work is that the original cast from
the 1996 show all of whom were
struggling actors at the time who really
had not gotten any break at all
six of the original eight make an
appearance in the new production company
wrap for example who you would probably
know from Dazed and Confused or
adventures in babysitting it’s just
phenomenal as as mark and adam pascal
was beautiful with Roger there’s a new
addition to the cast who’s rosario
Dawson who everybody’s familiar with who
plays Mimi the reason for her new
addition is that the part of me is a
nineteen-year-old and so the original
person Daphne rubin-vega who did go on
Broadway’s was quite simply too old but
most of the rest of the players are the
same they’re phenomenal Jessie L Martin
for those of you on order fans out there
sings in this movie you wouldn’t believe
it’s the same man and another
interesting fact about rent is that Taye
Diggs actually got his part in Stella
got her groove back on the set of rent
and decided to celebrate by streaking
the entire cast which is perhaps how he
attracted his wife who’s idina menzel
replaced Maureen so at the end of the
day rent is really just wonderful it’s
phenomenal it comes to life on the
screen and it’s wonderful that it’s
going to be able to live on like that in
this format
if you saw the play I think you’ll
absolutely adore the movie and if you
see the movie and the DVD and rent it
with a box of Kleenex and don’t be
afraid to put on the subtitles in sarong
it’s worth it
[Music]
facts with Leslie we’re going to be
talking about rent which is just out on
DVD our rent is particularly interesting
because it’s based on the 1996 Pulitzer
prize-winning play by Jonathan Larson
which is in turn based on bikinis
original La Boheme so it’s about a
bohemian lifestyle it’s set in 1989 in
New York City and it was originally
framed for the stage in 1995 now
Jonathan Larson who is the creator of
rent actually died on the night of the
broadway opening and because it’s a lot
about AIDS people assume that that’s how
he passed away but in truth the I was
unlucky he just had a brain aneurysm so
clay became exceptionally successful and
people all over the world got into it
because even if they weren’t able to go
to New York to see the play the music
was just so phenomenal that it really
touched people like I said all across
the world cut to ten years later and
director Chris Columbus decided he was
going to try and make it into a film and
this is very interesting for a few
reasons first of all rent is a musical
it’s not 1960 anymore so it’s a big leap
to make a musical feature number two
Chris Columbus is somebody who really
recognized as someone who does laughs
accommodate for example home alone and
so this was a bit of a departure for him
too but it works and I think what makes
it work is that the original cast from
the 1996 show all of whom were
struggling actors at the time who really
had not gotten any break at all
six of the original eight make an
appearance in the new production company
wrap for example who you would probably
know from Dazed and Confused or
adventures in babysitting it’s just
phenomenal as as mark and adam pascal
was beautiful with Roger there’s a new
addition to the cast who’s rosario
Dawson who everybody’s familiar with who
plays Mimi the reason for her new
addition is that the part of me is a
nineteen-year-old and so the original
person Daphne rubin-vega who did go on
Broadway’s was quite simply too old but
most of the rest of the players are the
same they’re phenomenal Jessie L Martin
for those of you on order fans out there
sings in this movie you wouldn’t believe
it’s the same man and another
interesting fact about rent is that Taye
Diggs actually got his part in Stella
got her groove back on the set of rent
and decided to celebrate by streaking
the entire cast which is perhaps how he
attracted his wife who’s idina menzel
replaced Maureen so at the end of the
day rent is really just wonderful it’s
phenomenal it comes to life on the
screen and it’s wonderful that it’s
going to be able to live on like that in
this format
if you saw the play I think you’ll
absolutely adore the movie and if you
see the movie and the DVD and rent it
with a box of Kleenex and don’t be
afraid to put on the subtitles in sarong
it’s worth it
[Music]
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