What to do you think of when you hear these names:
Tracie Thoms of Cold Case
Jesse L. Martin of Law & Order
Taye Diggs of Private Practice
I think of them from RENT. Jesse and Taye were from the original Broadway production of RENT and they, along with many other of the old timers came back for the movie version. Tracie came in the movie version as Joann.
When I saw E, my therapist, the other day she asked what I was listening to. She knows that my mood reflects the music that I will listen to. I told her that I have been falling asleep with RENT playing in my CD player. She was excited. I told her that the show is closing and that I have never seen the show in New York and I should go down and see it. I would like to more than anything.
To sit in the audience and just soak in all the sights around me. How ever I can really only afford when it comes through Boston every year. Missed this year though. Must go next year.
Here is just a sample of what I am talking about with the lyrics.
Another Day
The heart may freeze or it can burn
The pain will ease if I can learn
There is no future
There is no past
I live the moment
As my last
There’s only yes
only tonight
We must let go
To know what’s right
No other course
No other way
No Day But Today
I can’t control
my destiny
I trust my soul
My only goal
is just to be.
There’s only now
There’s only here
Give into love
Or live in fear
No other path
No other way
No Day But Today
Seasons of Love
*I will shorten this a bit
525,600 minutes
Moments so dear
How do you measure
measure a year?
in daylights, in sunsets
in midnights, in cups of coffee
in inches, in miles
in laughter, in strife
Measure your life in love.
It is a shame that Jonathan Larson died before he saw this open on Broadway.
I remember flying up to Mass for a friends wedding in 1996. I was sitting in my Grandparents living-room watching the Tony Awards when the cast sang “Seasons of Love” I wanted to see the show then.
It was powerful then and it is powerful now.
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