How do you document real life, when real life’s getting more like fiction each day? Good question. Hello listener, there’s no day but today, so the Broadway Babies decided to switch it up on y’all and add an outlier to the MEGA musical season that they felt deserved to be recognized for being the angsty sensation that swept the nation: RENT RENT RENT RE-ENT RENT!!!! Hang out with Alex and Daisha in Alphabet City while they discuss why Rent deserves a MEGA MUSICAL STATUS, as well as their opinions on why Rent hasn’t aged well, but the source material, La Bohème, has. Let us know what you think in the comments!

Podcast cover art: David Taylor

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OBC Cast recording (sorry): Amazon |iTunes

Video recording: iTunes | Amazon

Songs:

• “Rent,” performed by Adam Kantor, Will Chase and ensemble
• “Light My Candle,” by Renée Elise Goldsberry and Will Chase
• “Take Me or Leave Me,” by Eden Espinosa and Tracie Thoms
• “I’ll Cover U (reprise),” by Michael McElroy and ensemble
• “Seasons of Love,” by Gwen Stewart and ensemble

Music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson

Distributed by Sony Pictures

Show Notes:

• Everyone has AIDS! AIDS AIDS AIDS AIDS! 
• Gavin Creel and Aaron Tveit’s “Take Me or Leave Me,” maybe the sexiest thing ever seen: 
• "When it comes to 1990s time capsules, though, you can't do much better than Rent. Sure, it was technically set in 1989, but the musical is far more about the decade's response to the '80s than anything else."
• This is horrifying. News stories from 1982-1992 about HIV/AIDS. People were horribly mistreated. 
• The Final Days backstage.
• It's Rent, but the opera version! (Also, we encourage y'all to go see La Bohème live! It's ALWAYS being performed and probably at an opera house near you!)