Rent 1996 Original Broadway Cast

I listen to it in the car. I still love the songs.

I used to have this soundtrack in cassette version, but those of us who have ever bought cassette taps know, they get eaten, just when you're in a groove and singing along! I just HAD to buy this one now because Anthony Rapp was a guest at DragonCon, and I absolutely needed him to autograph it! While I was at it, I offered to let him use it for a sing-a-long, sadly that didn't happen, but it was totally worth trying for!

You either get it or you don't. Any human being can relate to the struggles portrayed in RENT. Alienation, poverty, betrayal, joy, love, sex, addiction, disease, family and everything else. Yes it can be a little dated with references to AZT and the like, and AIDS no longer is an automatic death sentence, but feel free to insert your struggle of choice instead; I don't think the author would mind. Ordinary people face life and death struggles every day and the lucky ones have someone to lean on for support. A lot of people don't. RENT speaks to both groups and everyone else in between. Live your life with joy and be grateful for what you have. We are all here for only a short time so you might as well make a big noise right? To me, RENT celebrates that attitude. Recommended? Of course!

Rent launched the careers of Daphne Rubin Vega, Anthony Rapp, Taye Diggs, and (perhaps most popularly) Jesse L. Martin, of Law & Order fame. Sure he's a tough cop, but when you hear him sing "I'll Cover You" you realize exactly why it is that so many actors and actresses say their first love is the theater. Martin is so much more than some cog in Dick Wolf's Law and Order machine. He has a voice that can bowl you over.The movie didn't bowl audiences over. (We won't blame that on the replacement of Vega with Rosario Dawson *cough* Idiots! *cough*) Seasons of Love, and Stevie Wonder, how can you go wrong there?Especially when one takes the time to read the story of Jonathan Larson, as told by brilliant writer David Lipsky. "525,600 minutes--how do you measure a year in the life?" Larson was a man so in love with his craft that he basically worked himself to death in order to leave the world this beautiful, amazing legacy of song, of love, of heart. It is a MUST-HAVE CD!

RENT is a tour de force of emotions, relationships, convictions, promises and lies. The music is beautifully melodic in some areas and grooving funk in others. It's rock 'n' roll and it's classic musical style. It follows the ageless tradition of musicals that have preceeded and it has started something wonderful for musicals of the future to draw from for years to come.The roles are deep and complex but they're just about as everyday as you can get. They're a bunch of friends, enemies and lovers in NYC trying to live their dreams, but trying to do it in the purest way possible. Mark's performance is the pivotal one, narrating and tying the individual stories together, and Roger's is the most painful. Tom is sensibility and Angel is reason. Every facet of human nature and human emotion is present in this recording and this whole show. It is a marvel of modern theatre and the music is brilliant. The words are all like poems, beautiful epic poems. They'll make you cry and they'll make you think and they'll most of all make you ponder life. No day but today!!!

The music is great!

For the most part, an excellent recording of (what can be) a very powerful show. Some of the voices here (for example, Mimi's and Roger's) are a bit too grating to listen to for long periods of time. That's okay though, because Rent is really meant to be seen and heard, not just heard. To actually watch Roger's and Mimi's performances instead of just listening is fantastic, because the rawness of their voices adds to their desperate situation. Much of this music is dialogue - hence the term "rock opera" - and really needs to be listened to in context. There are a few notable and famous exceptions - Seasons of Love being the most notable - that can really be listened to without context, but the rest of the show really needs to be seen and heard. Perhaps much of the soundtrack isn't very easy to listen to, but Rent is a show that needs to be seen. Perhaps try the Filmed on Broadway version for the full experience! But do yourself a favor and do not see the overbearing movie version.

I wore out my original set of this soundtrack, so happy to have a fresh set! Great musical, amazing sound

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レントは大好きで、日本語版とBroardway版の舞台は何度見たことでしょう。それがCDになっているので、通勤途上必ず聞いています。

Diese CD ist meiner Meinung nach die beste Wahl, wenn man eine "Rent"-CD sucht. Anders als bei z.B. der Film-Version sind hier wirklich alle Lieder vorhanden. Sowie sogar noch ein zusätzlicher Track, der bei dem Musical nicht dabei ist. Das Cast singt zusammen mit Stevie Wonder "Seasons Of Love". Dieses Version von dem wohl allbekannten Lied hatte ich noch nie zuvor gehört und sie gefällt mir so sehr.Das Cast ist wirklich das Original Brodway Cast und die Darsteller geben einfach alles, sie haben unglaublich viel Talent. Jonathan Larson ist einfach eine Inspiration. Diese Lieder gehen einem ins Herz und man kann gar nicht genug davon bekommen.Die Qualität der Aufnahmen ist sehr gut und ich kann einfach jedem empfehlen diese CD zu kaufen. Mit dabei ist noch ein kleines Heftchen mit den Lied-Texten und einigen Bildern der Darsteller.

Doble cd del musical de Rent por los artistas originales (1996).Si alquien busca la banda sonora de la película RENT del 2005, todas las canciones se regrabaron para darle un aire más moderno, NO es este doble cd, sino el que tiene esta referencia : B000AYEI4U . En amazon suele estar carisimo, es mucho más barato comprarlo de los vendedores asociados, a pesar de los 2,99 de gastos de envío.Merece la pena tener las dos ediciones para ver las diferencias porque la gran mayoría de los cantantes son los mismos en ambas ediciones