HoldThatFocusSteady

RENT:
The Musical

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Streaker's Favorite Quotes from RENT:

"Hold that focus steady...."
"The door...."
"No day but today"
(more coming soon!!)

"RENT is about a community celebrating life, in the face of death and AIDS, at the turn of the century"

You might be a Renthead if......

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	You might be a Renthead if . . . . . . in the winter you go outdoors, think "cold, cold" and immediately sing "Would you light my candle." . . . you have seen multiple casts of Rent. . . . you have seen Rent on multiple continents. . . . you're willing, even eager (egads!!), to sit and freeze your @$$ off to get cheap tickets. e.c. if you've done this 5 times or more. . . . you've stolen a Rent poster from anywhere. e.c. if you've stolen one from Leichester Square (London). . . . you've "stalked" a cast member. . . . you've set up a "worship zone", i.e. webpage. . . . you nag your friends for months in advance about an upcoming tourstop. . . . you know all the words to La Vie Boheme. e.c. if you understand all the references in La Vie Boheme. . . . your friends say you're "addicted" or "obsessed". . . . you've dreamed of playing a part in Rent (even if you can't sing or act). . . . you can rattle off an entire cast and bios on each member. . . . you had to replace your Rent CD because it was worn from being played non-stop. . . . every day you wear at least one article of clothing related to Rent or Rent keychains, etc. ec. you don't have one so you scrawl 'RENT' across a shirt with a sharpie. . . . you learn to play Musetta's Waltz on the guitar. e.c. you only know what Musetta's Waltz is because of RENT . . . you can recite/sing the lines along with your favorite character. e.c. you can without your favorite character. . . . when your out past your curfew, your parents call the theater before any of your friends' houses. . . . you have a shrine in your closet to your favorite cast member/character. . . . when somebody asks "what's the time?" you feel compelled to sing out "well it's gotta be close to midnight!" . . . when somebody asks "how old are you?" I say "I'm 19, but I'm old for my age!" . . . everytime you see the Taco Bell commercial for Santa Fe Gorditas, all you can think is "Let's open up a resturant. . . " well, you know where. . . . . . everytime someone says "what'd you forget" you start singing "Light my candle". . . . when performing math, you wonder if this equation will equal 525,600. . . . you actually spend time CALCULATING a year in different units. . . . you especially do this in minutes, just to see if Jonathan was right. . . . you're friends won't allow you to listen to any part of RENT when they're around. . . . you find yourself explaining Rent to anyone around you (perfect strangers count) at any given moment. . . . you can't sleep at night because the enitre musical won't stop playing in your head. . . . you get teary eyes when making a speech about Jonathan in front of your English class of people who are half-asleep and just waiting for the bell to ring so they can go to lunch. . . . your immediate reaction to anyone saying "oh, hi" is "oh, hi,after seven months?" . . . you can't take anyone named Alison seriously. . . . you belt out OTM to get out the frustration of a bad day when you are driving home. e.c. you did it without the CD playing. e.e.c. and you had the windows open. . . . Christmas carols will NEVER be the same. . . . you have EVER considered having your answering machine say "speeeeeeeeaaaaaaaak. . . " e.c. it actually DOES say "speeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaakkkkk." . . . anytime you hear something about one of the more obscure refrences from LVB, you say "omigod! Vaclav Havel! that's in la vi-" and then look around and shut up because you realize that no one knows what the hell you're talking about. . . . you can't hear the phrase "Santa Fe" without thinking, "you know, tumbleweeds, prairie dogs..." . . . you cry when listening to a CD you have already heard approximately four thousand seventy two times. . . . you call the cast members by their first names, even if you don't personally know them. . . . you walk to the beat of Rent songs. . . . you feel like typing A-N-G-E-L at any ATM machine you can find. e.c. at a Food Emporium . . . you call cash "flow". . . . you have managed to work out to Rent. . . . you sign letters to friends with quotes from Rent. . . . you know the entire LVB dance and are ready to perform it for everyone wherever you can find a table. e.c. You know the dance for all of the characters e.c.c and have done this in school . . . whenever someone stirs iced tea, you start performing the lawn chair-handcuff dance. . . . last time you got evicted 'cuz everytime it was time to pay rent, you marched up to your landlord singing 'we're not gonna paaaaay'. . . . every time someone asks "what'd you forget?", you reply "got a light?" . . . every time your watch beeps...you stop and say..."AZT break" e.c. you set your watch for cetain time so you can say it . . . you're sleeping over at your best friend's house and start babbling about one of the cast members in your sleep. . . . the wallpaper on your computer screen is of a scene from Rent. . . . you try to take a history test (ok any test) but 'Mimi chica, donde esta? Tu mama esta yamando! Donde Estas' Mimi, Donede Estas' Mimi? . . .Call' is the only thing going through your mind. . . . you debate whether or not to convince your choir teacher to have your choir perform 'La Vie Boheme' or any other song from RENT. . . . every time you see Wizard of Oz, you say 'You know, Dorothy and Toto only went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em...' . . . before or after class, you blurt out one line and then shut up, while all your friends give you a weird look. e.c. you have ever done this while your friend is in the middle of a sentence e.e.c. you have ever done this in the middle of class e.e.e.c. you have ever done this during a test . . . any time anyone says "C'est la vie", you reply 'la vie boheme...' . . . you turn in reports with quotes from Rent. . . . you find yourself writing "La Vie Boheme!" and other quotes from RENT all over your Algebra folder. . . . you have ever sang the entire First or Second Act all the way through w/out the cd while driving with your friends. . . . you have ever cast RENT with your friends in certain roles. . . . you've ever tried to rent an apartment but didn't have enough for the deposit so you offered to pay back the landlord w/ 1000 sweet kisses . . . you have a shrine in your locker. . . . you listen to the soundtrack so much that your mother who's never even seen the show knows it completely . . . you've actually auditioned for the show . . . you and your boyfriend act out "light my candle" or "i should tell you" or "another day" e.c. you and someone OTHER than your boyfriend act out the above . . . AIDS affects you deeply, but you always break out in song... . . . you actually have a NAME for a Random Rent Refrence that no one else knows (R cubed...like to the third) . . . you own more than one set of the CD's . . . you've preformed it in concert e.c and had a harmony part e.e.c and didnt have to actually LEARN it . . . you have code names with a fellow renthead for other people that are names of the cast . . . if you sit and try to think of more symptoms . . . you have "No day but today" written everywhere . . . you write entire RENT songs in your notebooks or give them to your friends in notes, and draw the RENT logo all over . . . you bought a fender guitar because mark says "first shot roger tuning the fender guitar he hasn't played in a year" . . . you have a dying urge to become an s&m dancer . . . you want Mimi's clothes even though they are really slutty . . . you dare your friends to go up to the person they like and sing out tonight, dance and all . . . you walk around town with your friends singing as far through the cds as you can go . . . you want to buy the cd even though you already have it . . . you scream "Wine and Beer" everytime asks you what you're having e.c. if you do this at restaurants e.c.c. often . . . whenever you countdown you say....5-4-3-open-seasame . . . you laugh whenever you see a cow. e.c. you actually find yourself tempted to ask if she has anything to drink. . . . whenever someone talks about Mickey Mouse, you automatically think "suicidal." . . . you use the phrase "I'm illin'" on a regular basis. . . . you are mildly surprised when you pass homeless people on the street and they are not singing "Christmas Bells are Ringing" in perfect harmony. . . . you have dressed up as any of the RENT characters for Halloween, even though you knew no one would get it. . . . you bought a video camera and follow your family and friends around, narrating their lives in song. e.c. you regularly announce the time in "Eastern Standard Time" . . . when you are juggling more than one phone call you periodically sing "We're Okay" e.c. you have friends call you at the same time to have an excuse to do this. . . . you named your dog Akita "Evita" . . . you order "Two tofu dog platter" or "One pasta with meatless balls" at any restaurant, telling the waiter that it tastes the same if you close your eyes. . . . you have had one or more date walk out on you because you kept on calling them "Mark," "Roger," "Mimi," etc. . . . you've ever tried to send an email to darlingalexi@newscom.net . . . the only reason you suggest a 'you might be a renthead if' reason, is because you want your name used as a reference on a RENT-related page . . . whenever someone says "Where is he/she?" you always say "Gettin' dizzy!" . . . when your friends ask you go somewhere even though you don't want to go, you contemplate it for a minute, then reply, "Okay, alright, I'll go..." . . . if you are a true RENThead, you know that "Season's of Love," although it be a great song, isn't the best song of the musical. . . . you spend 12 1/2 hours looking at RENT related sites . . . you know all of the songs from the APB (Adam Pascal Band) . . . you have thought about or actually haved named your kid or pet Roger, Mimi, Mark, Maureen...etc. . . . you actually take time to achieve all of these. . . . you own both the full soundtrack and the highlights cd, and you spend hours finding the songs to download on the computer. . . . your boyfriend/girlfriend calls you "pookie" and you immediately assume he/she is cheating on you. . . . you are disappointed if (at Christmas) the Salvation army santa claus (or any other santa claus) aren't wearing zebra printed tights. . . . when you ask someone for something and that person denies it to you, the phrase "today for you tomorrow for me" starts playing in your head immediately. . . . you are beginning to carry around a 10 gallon plastic pickle tub to accompany yourself. . . . you consider diet coke a drink for bad people or stuck up destroyers of art. . . . you did "Over the Moon" as a monolouge for drama class. . . . you spend so much time singing the songs in school that your teachers know most of them by heart. . . . you start to wear badges with the name of the character you're most like (ie: Hi, I'm Mark Cohen!) . . . you and your friend start to draw yourself's--anime style--as the Rent cast. . . . you incorporate Rent into English presentations and sit around laughing hysterically as Alexi Darling interviews Hades, even though the rest of the class has no idea what's going on. . . . you're seen the show so many times that when you're heard talking about it and someone asks you, 'Oh, have you seen Rent?' you start laughing hysterically and can't answer the person. . . . you are able to make references to Rent anytime, day or night. . . . you proclaim the 20th (or what ever date you first saw/heard Rent) of every month "Rentday" and go around singing along to the show and acting out bits of it all day. . . . you can free-associate any word in the english language to something to do with Rent. . . . you're listening to RENT while you're reading this page. . . . you used i'll cover you as your wedding song . . . you naturally sing the harmony parts to every song! e.c. you make up more parts of your own . . . you sing the cd in the shower e.c. in you sleep! . . . you judge driving time on how far through the cd you get . . . you've listened to nothing but the rent cd for over two years . . . anytime anyone says "C'est la vie" you reply "So let her be a lesbian there are other fishes in the sea" . . . your screen name has to do with rent . . . you buy stuff because it slightly has to do with rent like the shirt from Gap that says Akita . . . instead of a top ten movie list you have a top ten list of Collins' . . . you printed out this website and you and your renthead friends checked off all the ones you apply too (which is most of them). . . . you have a friend named Mimi or Mark or something every time you see them you start singing lines from rent. . . . you spend hours with your sister singing the parts of Roger and Mimi. . . . whenever anyone asks "where's everyone else?" you simply reply "Playing spiderman!" . . . as you are reading this you're asking yourself, "you mean that's not normal?" . . . you have ever sung out tonight at the top of your lungs in a public place, poledancing as you do so. e.c. if you've done it more than once . . . you have ever spent a considerable amount of time trying to play the soundtrack in sync with your friends while on the phone so you could both sing along. . . . you may be a renthead if everytime you hear the names Lucy and Finster you automatically associate them with Cats (jonathan's cats names) . . . you make up answers to what Rent characters may say when asked "why did the chicken cross the road?" . . . you have the Italian cast recording/Italian SOL video . . . you cry every time you even think about the bridge in I'll cover you reprise. . . . whenever someone offers you chips, by saying "Chips anyone?" you compusively burst out with, "You can take the girl out of hicksville, but you can't take the hicksville out of the girl," before you realize that this doesn't make sense to anyone else. . . . you've managed to perform perfectly Angel's drumstick solo in today 4 u or you are trying really hard to perfect it. e.c. you can do her flips and everything! . . . you actually know all of alexi darling's phone numbers, and youve tried calling 970-4301 or 863-6754. e.c. you've gotten someone on the line and actually asked for alexi darling.(from that sleazy show buzzline) . . . you stand outside of your boyfriend's/girlfriend's window and serenade them with "Your Eyes" e.c. at school e.c.c. spontaneously in the quad during a lunch rally . . . you try to relate your life to RENT, even if you live in an upper middle class neighborhood. . . . your friends don't mention rent, out of fear that you'll start belting one of your many favorite songs from rent. . . . you listen to the soundtrack everytime your on the phone and at weird times just blurt out the lines. e.c. you blurt out the lines to relate to your conversation . . . you watch yourself in the mirror while you act out both parts to "Light My Candle" simultaneously. e.c. you have performed them in front of family members. e.e.c. you have performed them in front of perfect strangers. . . . you apply to NYU because Collins planned to teach there . . . you spend time obsessing about how One Song Glory should have been Roger's "one song glory" . . . when someone asks "who died?" you automatically respond with "our Akita...Evita" . . . you and your Renthead friends have formed a group called Life Support . . . whenever someone mentions a guitar, you ask if it's a fender and if they just got it out of hock . . . you get thrown out of deli's for drumming on their pickle tubs to Angel's drum solo in Today 4 U . . . when you're sick, and someone says they're gonna buy stuff for you, you say "don't waste your money on me, me, Mimi..." . . . when you're leaving someone a message, you feel compelled to say "That was a very loud beep.." . . . you have the whole play running over and over in your head almost all the time. . . . you start casting your favorite actors as the characters from Rent. . . . when your school choir actually DOES perform a song from RENT, you sit in the audience singing along. . . . you have ever actually eaten "two tofu dog platter". . . . you want to move to NYC just so you can go see RENT everyday . . . every time you watch any james bond movie and he goes "bond-james bond," you respond by saying "and pussy galore in person!" . . . you've performed one of the songs from Rent a million times in your theater class and STILL aren't sick of it. . . . you are a poor college student who saved so you could travel across the country for the sole purpose of seeing Rent at the Nederlander! . . . you used a part of la vie boheme in your graduation speech. . . . you've inspired other members of your family to become Rentheads. . . . you had the soundtrack memorized and knew the story line before you saw the show. . . . you hear someone say, "Got a light?" You immediately respond," I know you...you're...you're shivering!" . . . you've actually taken the time to read this whole list, and laughed constantly because you know it's true. . . . your neighbor's yippie dog dies, and all you can think is "And sure as I am here, that dog is now in doggie hell." . . . you sing "I'll Cover You" as a duet with your boyfriend/girlfriend. . . . your Dad doesn't know any of the bohemians...except Angel. He likes Angel. . . . your mother knows the hand motions to "Why Dorothy and Tota went over the rainbow to blow off Auntie Em." . . . your mother moos with you. . . . your mom wants a ten second space between Glory and Light the Candle so she can clap. . . . your mother knows the harmony to "What You Own." . . . your dad is not scared of Contact and he thinks Pussy Galore is awesome. . . . you have made up a new hand motion to represent Viva La Vie Boheme. . . . you sign your mail with names of the artists. . . . everytime you read this list you sing along with the written quotations from rent songs! . . . you and your 4 friends act out RENT, each taking 2 roles. . . . you know all the songs on Adam Pascal's new CD "Model Prisoner". . . . while waiting for your hair dye to set in, you sing La Vie Boheme. . . . you have a picture with a cast member ec. you meet new people just so you can find someone who doesn't know that you have a picture with said cast member and tell them. . . . you know you're a rent head when you not only know every fact on Rent but the opera La Boheme that it was partially based on . . . you refer to your mother as the "wicked witch of the west" . . . you have gone to the show dressed in a certain character's act one costume and changed into their act two costume during intermission . . . you get excited when you know the La Boheme questions on jeopardy only because you've seen Rent not because you've ever seen La Boheme. . . . you translate the titles of RENT songs into French during boring classes . . . you play RENT association with your renthead friends . . . you write things in "RENT writing" (the writing the logo is in, with the crooked N) . . . you have a picture of RENT on your geometry folder . . . you were devastated when your drama teacher said he didn't really like RENT . . . the only reason you took drama was because of RENT . . . you saw West Side Story only because it was written by Sondheim and he is mentioned in RENT . . . you put the word RENT in every art project you do even though the teacher didn't like it . . . you write Viva La Vie Boheme on your desk during school . . . you saw the movie Road Trip only because Anthony Rapp had a little part in it . . . you saw Aida because Adam Pascal was in it . . . one of your other favorite musicals happens to be "Evita" and every time you hear it in RENT you think of it (and vice versa) . . . you perform Rent duets for talent shows even though you know only you and your partner will get it . . . when the ball drops on new years, you break into song with "Happy New Year" . . . when someone mentions a car, ask them if they sold the car that took them away and back e.c. ask them if they found their song, or Mimi for that matter . . . you randomly ask people if they paid last years rent e.c. you ask them if theyre going to pay this years or next years rent . . . you have been to the life cafe e.c. jumped on the tables, danced and sang to la vie boheme e.e.c. have done this numerous times . . . you leave messages on peoples answering machines like "mark cohen, alexi darling from buzzline..." . . . you convince your teacher that Jonathan Larson WAS a freedom fighter and you CAN do him for your report e.c. when she says you can go to any website to find info on him, you visit www.siteforrent.com and download la vie boheme during English class e.e.c. you get an A on the report . . . you mourn or sit shiva for the anniversary of jonathan larson's death e.c. you start to make like an elvis sighting and see him everywhere . . . you actually send in more of these messages e.c. you have done all the ones you send in e.e.c. you think of new, strange ones, do them, and then send them in . . . you have caught mistakes on the CD (when mimi's fever is breaking, if you listen closely you can hear someone giggle) . . . when someone asks you who you like you respond, "i like boys, boys like me" . . . someone talks about an angel in their dream, you ask them if it was an angel of the first degree . . . at christmas, you go up to people and say, "nice tree..." . . . when someone falls, say "let's get a band-aid for your knee" . . . you start referring to aids as "acquired immune deficiency SYNdrome" with the emphasis on SYN . . . you name your new stuffed dog Akita "Evita" . . . you send a link of this website to your Renthead friend who you know will appreciate it and crack up with you e.c. you and her make an effort to complete every single thing on this list . . . you are 12 years old and already know when you grow up you WILL be Maureen, no questions asked . . . you took apart your Playbill and hung everything on your wall e.c. you obviously saved and framed your 9 extras . . . you have called 411 asking for Manley Pope, or Adam Pascal of NY e.c. you have asked for Roger Davis and Mark Cohen e.e.c. you got a number and called them . . . your aol profile is filled with quotes from rent e.c. your member name is Roger Davis, your occupation is songwriter, you marital status is Mimi, your hobbies are revolting against your yuppie scum landlord benny etc. you think anyone named Benny is evil e.c. you now HATE your Grandpa Ben . . . you're going to NYU just so you can see Rent all the time . . . when it's dark at a restaurant, you sing to a waiter "Would you light my candle" e.c. done this even if it's not dark . . . every time you go to the library, you take out the RENT "bible" even though you already own it e.c the librarians started hiding it from you . . . you start singing your favorite Rent songs in public in hopes that someone will ask what you are singing. . . . everytime you see someone on a car you tell them "Hey ya bum, yeah you move over" e.c. You add the part about getting their ass off that range rover no matter what type of car it is. . . . you read this entire list and actually understand everything on it. . . . you listen to the entire soundtrack just in hopes of thinking of something to add to this list. . . . you tried to get your school's marching band to play something, anything from Rent . . . on new years eve, 3 and a half minutes before midnight you listened to happy new year. . . . you got your dad to make you meatless balls for dinner . . . at night when you cant sleep you try to think of more of these. . . . when you heard total strangers singing something from rent you walked up to them and started singing along. . . . you long to be a bohemian. . . . you were thrilled when you got kissed by a guy wearing lipstick because it reminded you of angel. . . . you dressed up as Maureen Johnson for a school talent show and sang "Over the Moon" in front of half the school. e.c. the best part is that you are a guy. . . . you buy boxes of Captain Crunch even though you hate the cereal because it's mentioned in Rent . . . you refuse to eat any other cereal than Captain Crunch. e.c. you get really upset when the grocery store doesn't sell Captain Crunch! . . . you own a foriegn copy of the soundtrack - and can sing it perfectly! . . . you hear someone say, "You talking to me?" and you sing (out loud), "Not at all!" . . . you see a yellow moving truck and you think, "yellow rental truck" e.c. you point this fact out to whoever you happen to be with at the time . . . you see a moving truck and are disappointed that it's not yellow . . . you'd like to eat at the Life Cafe . . . you made up your own Mark smiley and use it all the time =8-) . . . you refer to yourself as "[insert name of town here]'s Resident RENThead" e.c you were dubbed that by a bunch of people 5 and 6 years older than you . . . not only do you dream of performing in RENT, you know exactly WHO you will be in RENT and what you bio will say . . . your math teacher thinks you're nuts because you did a project featuring pictures of different Mimis in their OT outfits . . . your binders have RENT collages on the covers . . . you taught all your friends "Voice Mail #1" and you sing it together e.c on a regular basis e.e.c. in the middle of theatre class e.e.e.c. and the teacher gives you weird looks . . . when you see someone who looks like they could be in RENT, you say "Oh, she looks like Mimi" or "Oh! he Looks like Mark" e.c you go up to the person and tell them that . . . when your friend asks you how much money it costs to get into a school dance, you shout out, "We don't need any money-I always get in for free!! you can get in too- if you get in with me!!!!!" . . . you order pizza and have it delivered to the nederlander. . . . you call everyone "Pookie" or "Hunny Bear" . . . whenever you hear someone's watch alarm go off you say, "AZT break" . . . you are planning to organize a kind of celebration in honor to your first RENT year, that is, the date on which you first saw RENT e.c. if you�ve been doing this for the past...say five years??? . . . you've seen SLC Punk for the sole reason of seeing Adam Pascal and his miniscule part in the movie. . . .everytime your parents yell at you/ground you, your compelled to scream out: "Not to mention of course...hating dear old mom and daaaadddd!" . . . you're in manhattan: you pass copies of the village voice and scream out "To the village voice, to any passing fad!" . . . you pass a buliding with bolted plywood padlocked to a chain, and exclain so aloud. . . . in the winter your known to sing "and its beginning to snow", but only after you walk outside and let everyone know that its "cold cold" . . . when you are waiting in line for rush seats you have people come up and ask if you were part of the cast. e.c. they thought we were pretending to be homeless people. e.e.c. they actually thought you are homeless. . . . you use a word from a song as your motto of a club that you're in . . . you play Quija to see if you're gonna be in RENT . . . you have a friend who looks like mark, roger, mimi, collins, angel, etc. so you take a picture with them and when people ask say you got a picture with the actual cast member. . . . you play the tape of LVB on portable speakers in the hallways at school. e.c. loudly. e.e.c. and sing along. e.e.e.c. while classes are in progress. . . . you've spent hours rechoreographing and censoring LVB just to get it past the school administration so you can perform it in the auditorium . . .you print out the 1994 NYTW script in 25 page increments so your parents don't find out you now have MORE Rent stuff . . .you wrote that you would erect a statue of Jon Larson on your PA Writting assesment . . . you have set goals around January 25th of the year you will be 36 (coz that's when Larson died) . . . you vow you will marry Anthony Rapp, even though he's gay, and you're a girl e.c your friends have a poem about your love plight e.e.c they set it to the tune of La Vie Boheme and promise to sing it at your wedding e.e.e.c. you have a sex change because this is the only way to marry him seeing as he is gay and you are-well, were a girl . . .you spent most of your time on-line last summer looking for a pair of blue-hologram pants e.c. you are still looking e.e.c if anyone finds them email me!!! . . .you were willing to drive through three states to buy glasses that look like Mark's . . . you wear Mark glasses even though you don't need glasses . . . your mother was bidding on a RENT jacket on E-bay for you while you were seeing the musical e.c. you got the jacket . . . you swear you will have a solo CD by every cast of the OBC e.c. already have three

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