Post by Rent Is Love. on Jan 18, 2008 20:40:25 GMT -5
Well... Here's how it goes... I have always LOVED musicals and LOVED performing. But one day I was on my first holiday out of Australia and I was at Universal studios. I saw an Ad for Wicked and immediatly wanted to see it... but... unfortunatly... never got the chance.
I forgot all about it untill a year later when my music teacher was teaching me to sing Collins' part of I'll Cover You. She gave me a copy of Rent and a copy of Wicked, because she thought I would like Wicked. I immediatly put RENT (OBC) in the CD player when I got home and found that... well. I thought it was the most annoying thing I had ever heard. I switched it for Wicked and fell in love. I fell in love with the songs.. the music... the actors and actresses...
About a year later I was on YouTube and looking up my two fave actresses: Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth. I search Kristin Chenoweth first and watched ALL of the vids to do with her (I fell in love with Music Man and Your a Good Man Charlie Brown that way). Then it came to Idina Menzel and it came up with her singing Take Me or Leave Me on the first page, I thought it looked interesting and I clicked on it. I fell in LOVE with it... I looked at the name of the musical and to my surprise it was RENT. I went and I dug up my old CD, I listened to it so often it scratched. Then I was watching today for and reading the reviews on YouTube and... well... someone said that it was too bad that Angel dies and I was like:
"WHAT... NO! HE CANT!!! I LOVE HIM!!!"
That night my best friends parents happened to be going to a video library and I was like:
"Hey Sophia," (She's my bestie by the way) "Do you want to get out... RENT?"
And we found it and couldn't wait to watch it. We watched it once and by the end I was under a spell, the musical had me laughing and sobbing. I loved everything about it. We watched it three more times that night. My dad made me a copy of it and I watch it at least once a week. I always cry. I love Angel. I wish that she didn't have to die. 8 months later I still love it every bit as much... if not much more as I did back then. I have BOTH cast recordings on my MP3 and listen to them every day. RENT is my life and it is my dream to be in it one day. Without it I wouldnt be who I am today.
Angel taught me to always be happy and be the best person you can be because you never know when time will run out and the lyrics just inspire me everyday. I love RENT and will until the day I die.
VIVA LA VIE BOHEME!!!!! (hehe, I had to put that.)
(Ok so I copied that from what I wrote to Pandafire McMango's story, your first time... I think its called that. But I copied it because I am lazy and sad. I will write a new account later on.)