“Rent” Takes on the Human Condition with Poor Acting
By Archived Story
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Tip for theater goers: avoid seeing a traveling musical during the middle of the week, especially at the end of the show’s run. What you’ll get are a few effortless actors disrespecting their characters, themselves and the audience.With that said, I wish I wasn’t referring to Jonathan Larson’s theatrical masterpiece “Rent,” which is an ultra-important story of friendship, suffering, life and death that will never lose its symbolic importance for American society – except when it is not taken seriously by those actors involved in its performance.In its sixth presentation at the Ordway Center in St. Paul, the show, which ended April 18, is now Broadway’s tenth longest running show to date. And because of that popularity and its massive following, one would think that being apart of this musical’s cast would be an unimaginable …



