This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Theater / Homo Win Tickets to Rent
Posted by Alison Hallett on Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:17 PM
So, um. I'm not exactly sure how to handle this one.
Okay. I have three pairs of tickets to the Tuesday, June 23 Broadway touring production of Rent (featuring original Broadway cast members! ! ! .... ). They're good seats, and I'll pass them along to the three people who leave the best comments here by Friday at 3 pm. Here are some topic ideas to get you started.
1. Musical theater
2. Landlords
3. AIDS
4. Embarrassing shit that you loved so much when you were 15 that it's viscerally unpleasant to revisit it as an adult.
Oh, god. If you need me, I'll be sitting under my desk cradling TriviaCat and breathing rapidly into a paper bag.
1
Aw sweet Zenu, that's horrible! I saw it years ago and had blocked it from my memory. Thanks a lot.
2
I saw this on Broadway summer of 96, just before starting freshman year of high school. Original cast. Not that I'm bragging. I'm not. I'm not even trying to win tickets to see it again. Nope. Not this girl. Because that would be lame, and now that I'm almost 27, I don't do lame things. I also don't study or smoke stolen menthol cigarettes or try to get drunk of peach schnapps or die misc streaks of my hair platinum or dare my friends to eat weird things or wear men's jeans or listen to NOFX or wonder if boys like me.*
So, uh, no thanks Alison.
*two of these things I kind of still do, sometimes.
So, uh, no thanks Alison.
*two of these things I kind of still do, sometimes.
4
BAH.
If you made this a random "email to win" giveaway, I bet that you'd have a shitload of entries. People are too SCARED to comment on this post.
If you made this a random "email to win" giveaway, I bet that you'd have a shitload of entries. People are too SCARED to comment on this post.
5
Hm. You might be right. If things are still looking this dismal tomorrow, maybe I'll go that route.
6
I deserve to see Rent because I never have. I've never even seen an off-broadway musical. Fuck... if you discount watching too much Shakespeare I've essentially never seen theater. (We're ignoring dance and performance art and orchestras or operas and community theater)
Pretty much I'm a completely uncultured-uncouth-slovenly man. This is the Mercury's chance to really increase the quality of their readership by allowing someone who is basically a feral wolf-child to experience the music which has charms to soothe a savage beast.
Pretty much I'm a completely uncultured-uncouth-slovenly man. This is the Mercury's chance to really increase the quality of their readership by allowing someone who is basically a feral wolf-child to experience the music which has charms to soothe a savage beast.
7
I can do a better #4 when I'm drunk, and I'm not doing that tonight, (I have to be up early tomorrow, and also I'm "fasting" for Thursday.) So you should wait until Friday to change the rules...
8
Being gay and seeing rent live is like Riding a tricycle down a rainbow! I would love to go and see the thing that made the 90's even more rocken. I'm pretty sure that the Entire buffy cast is fans of this Musical, and they can't be wrong can they? So for the love of Buffy, Unicorns, and rainbow maneuvering gay gals, let me see these people sing their hearts out!
11
when i was 13 i had such a crush on anthony rapp that i invented a reason to interview him for a kids news organization i was part of. it was a phone interview and he was packing to move to london (for rent!) and at some point in between talking about raising aids awareness and something else dreamy he sneezed. but i didn't say bless you. i fretted about it for years. ask my middle school friends. give me tickets and i'll get to apologize once and for all!
12
My girlfriend is in love with Rent, and if I get the tickets, I'm pretty sure I could get her to do some Photoshop of you and your friends as Vulcans. Or maybe the cast of Rent as Vulcans.
14
I actually don't have anything snarky to say about Rent- I think it's a fantastic show and I would love to get the chance to see it without binoculars. I know the history of the show and how radical it was during the time it was written, but I get the impression that I have to poop in Rent's hat in order to be considered disinterested enough to impress the Mercury.
15
I think I may have to back up the Gay + Rent = Homo-Bat-Mitzvah type comment. I mean, really, I've yet to have my coming-of-age that includes numerous references to AIDS and Dildos that is likely required by the Ceiling-Cat of Gayness (that's where you pull the little white perv out of his hole in the ceiling and tye-dye him!).
How about getting the tickets as a wedding present since I'm preparin' to go get myself Gay Married next year in Canada? It'd be pretty darn embarassing to do that and have to admit at the reception that I've never seen it live when the embarrassingly queer karaoke starts up with renditions of Dancing Queen and I'll Cover You.
(Also, I'll share the ticket love since I'm the only one who'd be going. I'd happily give one or two of the tickets to someone else who posted here and wanted to go.)
How about getting the tickets as a wedding present since I'm preparin' to go get myself Gay Married next year in Canada? It'd be pretty darn embarassing to do that and have to admit at the reception that I've never seen it live when the embarrassingly queer karaoke starts up with renditions of Dancing Queen and I'll Cover You.
(Also, I'll share the ticket love since I'm the only one who'd be going. I'd happily give one or two of the tickets to someone else who posted here and wanted to go.)
16
I lived with 3 other girls in a cool old house once. We had a landlord named Carl. Carl was a creepy old drunk. Who lived in the house next door. That way he could always quiz us on our overnight visitors...
Carl's house had a HUGE greenhouse attached. On the outside, the parts people could see from the street.... beautiful flowers and plants... on the inside was his moneymaker crop...
I woke at 6am on the day after Thanksgiving with a terrible hangover to find Carl outside my bedroom window in a cherry picker he rented to string Christmas lights up every branch of every tree in his yard and ours...
Carl had to come over one day to fix a broken stove, he somehow cut himself while working on the stove and left streaks of blood all over the kitchen. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that a nearly full bottle of tequila we had was nearly empty after his 'repair visit'...
Ah Carl... cheers.
Carl's house had a HUGE greenhouse attached. On the outside, the parts people could see from the street.... beautiful flowers and plants... on the inside was his moneymaker crop...
I woke at 6am on the day after Thanksgiving with a terrible hangover to find Carl outside my bedroom window in a cherry picker he rented to string Christmas lights up every branch of every tree in his yard and ours...
Carl had to come over one day to fix a broken stove, he somehow cut himself while working on the stove and left streaks of blood all over the kitchen. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that a nearly full bottle of tequila we had was nearly empty after his 'repair visit'...
Ah Carl... cheers.
17
nibo: Wait, you are planning on getting married, but you are going to Rent by yourself? Seems like going to see Rent would be a good "date" and if you are planning on getting married, you probably have a steady one.
(Or at least, that is what I think.)
(Or at least, that is what I think.)
19
Dear sweet lord please don't give me these tickets. I will revert to the fat puddle of Montana-hick fangirl that I was when I moved to PDX years ago. When I knew all the words to every song in this queer, queer musical and even had the balls to sing a drunken karaoke version of "Out Tonight" at a lesbian bar.
So please, save me from myself.
So please, save me from myself.
21
Matthew,
No.. Sadly, the other half lives in Canada (can you say... "My girlfriend who lives in Canada?"). She won't be in town for the show.
No.. Sadly, the other half lives in Canada (can you say... "My girlfriend who lives in Canada?"). She won't be in town for the show.
22
seriously still checking this blog posting daily to see if i'm one of the lucky bastards....have you notified the winners?
23
What's the story? Did the winners get picked yet?
LET ME SEE RENT!!! I will write a snarky mean review of it. I will make sure to point how dated and useless the social commentary is.
LET ME SEE RENT!!! I will write a snarky mean review of it. I will make sure to point how dated and useless the social commentary is.
24
RENT is my favorite all-time Musical!
To see 2 of the original cast in Portland would be way too cool.
Here’s who’s who, for those who don’t know.
And If I am picked, I will surely see the Best show.
Mark is a filmmaker, whose roommate is Roger.
Mark use to date Maureen, that is until she met a lawyer.
Maureen is a bisexual performance artist, who use to date Mark,
she’s now living with Joanne, a lawyer or what you might call a shark.
Roger is a songwriter who is HIV positive.
His girlfriend April slit her wrists when she discovered they had AIDS and didn’t have the will to live.
Mimi is an exotic dancer with HIV, due to her drug abuse,
she lives in the same building as Roger, who she tries to seduce.
Tom is a gay philosophy professor living with AIDS,
he was rescued by Angel, a gay percussionist also with AIDS, who dresses in drag.
Benny, the local landlord of the building where lives Mark, Roger and Mimi
he’s a former roommate of Roger, Mark, Collins, and Maureen, but now married to Allison, whom we never see.
The musical is about landlords, lovers, and friends,
And If I win tickets, I’ll get to relive it all again.
To see 2 of the original cast in Portland would be way too cool.
Here’s who’s who, for those who don’t know.
And If I am picked, I will surely see the Best show.
Mark is a filmmaker, whose roommate is Roger.
Mark use to date Maureen, that is until she met a lawyer.
Maureen is a bisexual performance artist, who use to date Mark,
she’s now living with Joanne, a lawyer or what you might call a shark.
Roger is a songwriter who is HIV positive.
His girlfriend April slit her wrists when she discovered they had AIDS and didn’t have the will to live.
Mimi is an exotic dancer with HIV, due to her drug abuse,
she lives in the same building as Roger, who she tries to seduce.
Tom is a gay philosophy professor living with AIDS,
he was rescued by Angel, a gay percussionist also with AIDS, who dresses in drag.
Benny, the local landlord of the building where lives Mark, Roger and Mimi
he’s a former roommate of Roger, Mark, Collins, and Maureen, but now married to Allison, whom we never see.
The musical is about landlords, lovers, and friends,
And If I win tickets, I’ll get to relive it all again.
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