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Rent Live

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Despite the show's earnest intentions, Rent Live's clumsy production and pre-recorded broadcast render it an underwhelming "live" musical event.

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Caroline Framke Variety Outside the dress rehearsal disaster, one of the weirder side effects of "Rent" airing on Fox is that "Rent" could never be itself on Fox. Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Judy Berman TIME Magazine We'll never know whether a genuinely live version would have come closer to preserving the urgency of Larson's beloved musical, but it certainly would've had a better excuse for showing so many seams. Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Aja Romano Vox But to make all of this even weirder, there was a live performance of Rent happening onstage - and it was awesome! Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media Live performance of popular, mature musical hits sour note. Rated: 2/5 Feb 6, 2019 Full Review Kevin Fallon The Daily Beast This, it should not need to be said, made for a depressingly lame show... Feb 1, 2019 Full Review Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez Tom & Lorenzo The screwup on this one is about to become legendary and will probably have massive effects on any live musical theater performances on television going forward. Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member The only thing good about this was Jordan Fisher. Keala's note at the end kinda summed it up - supposed to be impactful, but just a little off Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review david u Overlooking the dress rehearsal disaster and the problem broadcastin on Fox, the cast was exceptional and the performance enjoyable. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Having seen several differant versions this version did keep the original intent, musicality and theatrics. No it wasnt "live" and yes it was overly polished in some respects but you have to remember its audience... 8pm Sunday night. No f bombs allowed. If youre a purist... You may not like it... If your not stuck on "its not the original cast" its a wonderful version. Cheers Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Kristen M Unfortunately, I watched this the evening after I had seen "Hamilton." Ugh. Bad idea. Vanessa Hudgens was surprisingly good. Everybody else sucked. I love "Rent" and there is much in the way of truly good music in this show ... but my guess is these actors all had extremely good agents who sold their soul to get their clients these parts ... too many pretty faces and not near enough good voices. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/26/19 Full Review Audience Member Overlooking the pre-recorded dress rehearsal, RENT suffered from miscasting and weak song performances that failed to resonate with this viewer. While there were some gems (Keala & Valentina), it just wasn't enough to pay the rent. Final thought: it was too clean. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review Audience Member The made for TV special certainly attracted attention, but we should have expected FOX to ruin it. The show skipped from one moment to another, edited too much out, and fell far short of the mark in key scenes. I felt like I was watching a rock concert instead of theatre due to the lack of acting and the shrieking audience that drowned everyone out. Despite good singing from some of the cast, they didn't understand the weight of the characters they play and failed to do justice to an epic story. Interviews of the original cast in the 90s mention that they were afraid moving to Broadway would damage the ethos of the show. Rent Live proves them right. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Director
Alex Rudzinski