It’s, like, a 12-minute act, and there’s so much in it. It takes you on this energetic build across six or seven minutes, and it’s all within an act that starts off with Maureen’s stage show, which is kind of random and full-on and weird in a whole different way. There’s incredibly snappy, quick dialogue. It’s a really fast scene, and it’s long as well, and so trying to capture all the moments. So it’s choosing the times when to pull back and show them.”Īnother fan-favorite moment is one of Rudzinski’s biggest challenges, too: the massive musical number that ushers out the first act, “La Vie Boheme.” Said the director, “It’s so loved, and I want to capture all the energy of it. You want to pull back at those moments and see them play out, not just in the characters’ framing but from a perspective of the audience in the house to show the energy that’ll you’re going to hear. We can choose when to bring the audience in, and I think finding those beats - Mimi appearing in her apartment for the first time, Angel walking into the loft - really loved moments that all the Rent-heads are obsessed about, they’re all there. “All that intimacy and portraying that is very core to this musical, this show. “Especially in this work, I feel, more than any of our previous musicals, I have a duty to lean into the drama of it all, and a duty to tell the emotional context between our characters,” he said. (Jonathan Larson died suddenly the night before Rent‘s off-Broadway debut.) When they asked her why, she said, “We only did that because our pot was too small.” With Greif on board, he’s able to remember the things Larson and his team did because the pot was too small.
Siegel’s wife tells a story about how a family she knew would always trim the ends off of a roast before they cooked it - a tradition that started with their grandmother. “While some curse words will be eliminated to appease standards and practices, the real question is: How can we make little trims in places in order to just fit into the box?” “The biggest problem with Rent is that there’s just too much of it,” said executive producer Adam Siegel. The Fox version of the show will hew closely to the same musical fans have watched for more than 20 years - but thanks to Greif, Wendt and other members of the original creative team, they’ve been able to adjust certain aspects for television, be it profanity that doesn’t necessarily need to be included or small bits of score that could be trimmed to fit a three-hour run time. It would keep the dark circumstances of the characters’ lives very much a part of the musical.” But, Greif told THR, “ made it very clear to me that this would be a television version of the musical that would really keep the emotional stakes of the musical.
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