Rent
April 10th, 2008, 11:19 am · Post a Comment · posted by fsherman
Not mine, the OWC-hosted production of the touring company.
I loved it. A great show with great talent, cool set and full of energy and life.
Not everyone agreed. A Destin resident wrote to the Daily News this morning that he “escaped at intermission as though we were fleeing Sodom and Gomorrah. This play was a disgrace not only in the eyes of God but in the eyes of all who profess faith in him.”
Well, I’m not the only person who believes in God and likes “Rent” so he’s a little off.
But he’s really off when he paints himself as an “unsuspecting attendee … if we had known the play’s content, we would surely have stayed away”—he optimistically predicts so many people would have stayed away, OWC would learn its lesson about offending him—and that he wants to make sure “future productions are reviewed and the public can be warned.”
In fairness, the big Daily News article in Showcase the Friday before didn’t divulge much of the storyline. On the other hand, “Rent” is a show well over 10 years old, multiply reviewed and it wouldn’t take much effort to find the details on the Internet before forking out $45 for a ticket.
I feel the same way about this I do about people who announce at Destin City Council meetings that stuff I’ve been writing about for months has been covered up and carried out without any information reaching the public.
