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katieemilys's review against another edition
emotional
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3.0
lauraelliott's review against another edition
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4.0
cozylittlebrownhouse's review against another edition
4.0
I love Rent and I love Anthony Rapp. I just saw the show for the umpteenth time because he toured with Adam Pascal. I first saw the show in NYC, but the originals were already gone (1998). What a duo. I wish the entire original cast would regroup for a tour...I would pay big bucks to see them all, especially Idina, Adam, Mark, Jesse, and Taye.
I enjoyed the insight into Rapp's life, but mostly enjoyed the morsels about the start of Rent and the evolution of the show. I think only true fans of Rent will enjoy this book - for others it will just be a basic memoir that someone else has probably done better.
Anthony Rapp, if you ever log onto GoodReads (I know you are book obsessed too), and happen to read my review, do everything in your power to regroup the gang and tour. You were awesome with Adam! Rent changes lives!
No day but today!
I enjoyed the insight into Rapp's life, but mostly enjoyed the morsels about the start of Rent and the evolution of the show. I think only true fans of Rent will enjoy this book - for others it will just be a basic memoir that someone else has probably done better.
Anthony Rapp, if you ever log onto GoodReads (I know you are book obsessed too), and happen to read my review, do everything in your power to regroup the gang and tour. You were awesome with Adam! Rent changes lives!
No day but today!
kaylaraine23's review against another edition
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5.0
My mom made me wait until I was 13 years old to watch the Rent film after becoming totally obsessed with Idina Menzel, and I'll never forget my first viewing of it. I still can't see Mark Cohen without seeing Anthony. To me, he is Mark, and he is Rent. I was delighted to here all the BTS stories of one of my favorite musicals and surprised by how enthralled I was in the story of his life and his family. As per usual, Anthony delivers a great performance in the audiobook of his memoir, capturing the emotions (especially anger) he was going through at the time through his voice. I wish I could see his stage show of this and hope it will be filmed somewhere one day.
novelinsights's review against another edition
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I fell in love with the Rent movie in middle/high school. It was an obsession, to the point where my friend group and I were trying to organize the filming of our own edition of the movie (never got off the ground, but we spent a lot of time planning out how it would have happened, so much so that my best friend at the time, who'd planned on playing the Maureen to my Joanne, still calls me Pookie over a decade later). Anyway, I just wanted you to understand how big a part of my life Rent was back then. As an adult, I still consider it my favorite musical and one of my favorite movies in general, but I don't think about it all the time the way I did, so when I finally picked up this novel in the weeks leading up to my 30th birthday, I really hoped that I hadn't waited too long to get the full experience. I didn't wait too long.
Reading this brought me right back into the vividness with which I'd always loved Rent, and it gave me a greater appreciation of the actor who plays one of my favorite characters. I hadn't realized how involved he'd been in the musical from the very beginning, or how many different iterations of it he'd done. As with all books, fiction and non-fiction, I'd also been interested to pick up some stray facts about random other things I'd never heard of before, like the I-57 murders.
Like most (if not all) memoirs, this is written in a loosely narrative style, which is my preference as a primarily fiction reader, myself. It painted a picture of grief and love and sometimes rage that helped me get a better sense of who Anthony Rapp is aside from the dorky, quiet filmmaker we're all familiar with him playing. I definitely recommend this for all fans of Rapp, and Rent in general.
Reading this brought me right back into the vividness with which I'd always loved Rent, and it gave me a greater appreciation of the actor who plays one of my favorite characters. I hadn't realized how involved he'd been in the musical from the very beginning, or how many different iterations of it he'd done. As with all books, fiction and non-fiction, I'd also been interested to pick up some stray facts about random other things I'd never heard of before, like the I-57 murders.
Like most (if not all) memoirs, this is written in a loosely narrative style, which is my preference as a primarily fiction reader, myself. It painted a picture of grief and love and sometimes rage that helped me get a better sense of who Anthony Rapp is aside from the dorky, quiet filmmaker we're all familiar with him playing. I definitely recommend this for all fans of Rapp, and Rent in general.
helenephoebe's review against another edition
5.0
ISBN? - 9780743269773
General Subject/s? - Biography / Musical Theatre / Music / Theatre
Title? - Without You is a song from Rent, and it also applies to Rapp's relationship with his mum.
General Analysis? - I really really loved this autobiography! I love Rent so for me this book particularly appealed. It's interesting to see the audition process and how relations developed between the actors that made them like a family, and enabled them to act so well. It's also interesting to see musical influences, and the history of a musical which changed the face of Broadway. Part of the story is so sad, with the death of creator and composer Jonathan Larson. What else really strikes me about this book is how open Rapp is about his sexual orientation and his mistakes over the years, and his mother's illness. It's really emotional and enables you to understand why he put so much into musical theatre.
Recommend? – Well worth a read, particularly for fans of Rent.
General Subject/s? - Biography / Musical Theatre / Music / Theatre
Title? - Without You is a song from Rent, and it also applies to Rapp's relationship with his mum.
General Analysis? - I really really loved this autobiography! I love Rent so for me this book particularly appealed. It's interesting to see the audition process and how relations developed between the actors that made them like a family, and enabled them to act so well. It's also interesting to see musical influences, and the history of a musical which changed the face of Broadway. Part of the story is so sad, with the death of creator and composer Jonathan Larson. What else really strikes me about this book is how open Rapp is about his sexual orientation and his mistakes over the years, and his mother's illness. It's really emotional and enables you to understand why he put so much into musical theatre.
Recommend? – Well worth a read, particularly for fans of Rent.
nicnac95's review against another edition
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3.75
If you love Rent then you will enjoy this book. I loved reading about the build up to the opening night and what it was like to experience that. Rapp's writing is easy to read and flows nicely but he seems a little too in his head at points. Also warning: I was in a constant stream of tears for the whole second part of the book as it deals with death and grief - I definitely cried in public a few times while reading this so maybe learn from my mistakes and read it at home haha
brooklynwegner's review against another edition
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5.0