the new swings who have replaced yaz and adam are yasmeen (sp?) and peter smith.

very cool about laura's record, no?   congratulations laura :-)

i pulled craig's pictures from his page & put them up in the pittsburgh section (thanks craig & sherrie :-)  craig may be with us in costa mesa btw :-)

site maintenance day.

chrissie sent me her adrian pics from hartford.  wow, remind you of anyone? thanks crissie :-)

and here's scott & chrissie in hartford - scott went on as mark last nite in pittsburgh.

saving the best for last.   these are tina's wavs from the benefit in cincinnati.  i've been listening to this whole tape for what tina, about 2 months now? and i still can't get enough of it.   these are big, about ~285KB each, but worth the wait. here's cary singing parts of "with a little help from my friends" (backup singers - "the cast of RENT"  :-)

jenn sent me another pic from tampa - (this one's for you katie) - kirk.

she also confirmed the new orleans tour dates *and* sent me this tampa article - good job jenn!  :-)

here's the first pittsburgh review.  and the second.

did you see it?  the first costa mesa ad was in the l.a. times today :-)

this is from siteforrent:

but here's a cute pic of d' from tampa (from jenn - thanks jenn :-)

ii'm p00ped.

i put up those really old (july 13, 1997) articles.

some more pics from miami:  cary, leigh, erica & d'monroe, jasmine & mikey, pierre, mikey, scott, andy & brent.

anyone going to RENT in pittsburgh, email me.

"Rent" cast members Julia Santana and Mark Leroy Jackson joked about cross-dressing, while presenter Fred Savage got laughs when he suggested launching his own version of the Bohemian musical. "If Doogie Howser can do it, why can't I?" quipped the former child actor.

tickets are on sale now for iowa city.  check the tourdates section.

from tampa: jasmine and more cary.

from miami: erica & andy (and a few friends), and more erica & andy :-)

hbo is showing ant's movie "when trumpets fade" in june.  they're also showing "the making of twister" starting may 31 (at 3:15am PST!)

i added some more old articles & reviews, over there, <- under articles & reviews, but you'll have to just dig thru them to see whatever you haven't seen.

carla, yes. she'll be maureen for the next few weeks on broadway :)

neil, no. jim poulos says his contract isn't up until the end of july and he has no plans to leave.

and here's chasta and julia & scott and erica & leigh in miami.

cable modem access has finally come to cypress.  i just may be moving this whole site yet again :-)

more miami:  erica, pierre, brent & mikey, owen, and d'monroe :-)

and yet another pittsburgh article.  can't wait till this town starts doing reviews, they're really pumping out the publicity.

and speaking of adrian (if you read the article above), here's a pic of him that jules took in london about a month ago.  and she left this morning to go back again!

and speaking of london, here's jesse and ant :-)

this article's from milwaukee from last month.  it's more about theatre in milwaukee, but i like what they say about touring companies.

and just-in-case you're planning to go to detroit (ahem, *tina*!), here's another.  i'm happy to see this article, there hasn't been much info out of detroit since laura got there.  this is good.

if you missed it on the board, sing your way to costa mesa tickets.

i don't care if you don't read any of those other articles, you *must* go check out the title of this one.  somebody's *really* confused.   LOLOLOL!

finally, a review from hartford (funny comments).

from the l.a. times today:

"Aug.4 - The national touring company of Rent moves into the Orange County Performing Arts Centre for a longer-than-usual stay, through Aug. 16.  Most Broadway tours get evicted after a week there, so enjoy the loud music while you can."

continuing on with the pics from tampa and miami.

and denise sent me some pics of her & jessica & chris from l.a. :-)

and from my duck friend in miami - LOL!

san antonio lists the benny tour as being there (at least i think it's the benny tour) 12/8 - 12/13/98.  altho this particular show has mimi in love with mark so maybe it's not RENT at all :-)  i keep thinking maybe they're starting *another* tour that we don't know about yet - they *have* been auditioning an awfully lot lately!

i've put up some of the tampa pics from maria (thanks maria :-)  there's some really good ones.

i got home late last nite and read the board, starting with the day i left. that was pretty amusing.  that last one was a nice post tina  :-)

came home to my lion king tickets (w00!) and a bunch of pictures from erica, mikey and maria.  starting with miami, these are from erica. thanks you three! :-)

etsu sent me the first RENT japan cast info, including pictures of the some of the actors who've been cast.  i only *think* i got this right etsu, correct me if i'm wrong!

i updated the bios and the tour dates section to include reno, tucson & iowa. that denver date is still really unclear but i left it anyway.  it's looking more like san antonio will be in december, not next year.

where the heck are all the hartford (newspaper) reviews?  here are a few audition articles from pittsburgh.

kelly, i can't get ahold of you, your email account is rejecting everything.

it's nice to be home :-)

= see you in two weeks =

(and somebody tape ally & buffy)

:-)

so is this, altho chris is in the picture so it's from around february or march.

i love the way caro is doing this - putting up a wav of each actor singing the same line.  it's very cool.

there's a laura review on the angel tour board.

paul & sandy, you guys ROCK.

d's looking healthy & happy (from mikey in miami :-)

the mysterious adrian, now listed as roger in the benny tour on siteforrent (good sleuthing RentMom^TM :-)

Adrian Lewis Morgan (Roger). 
Trained: Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Theatre: Judas (understudied & performed) and Annas in Jesus Christ Superstar (Lyceum Theatre); Silvius in As You Like It (BAC); Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd (Royal National Theatre - award winning production); Schwarz in Reunion (Derby Playhouse).  Other:  Sweeney Todd, BBC Radio Two; Jesus Christ Superstar - original cast album.

max's random friday nite email   :-)

                    THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO "Hmmmmmmmmm...."

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.

How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?

Why does sour cream have an Expiration date?

Do infants have as much fun in their infancy as adults do in adultery?

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?

If "con" is the opposite of "pro," then what is the opposite of progress?

Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?

How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn't grow in it?

Why buy a product that it takes 2000 flushes to get rid of?

Why do we wait until a pig is dead to "cure" it?

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Do Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?

Whose cruel idea was it for the word "lisp" to have an "s" in it?

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

i've been off researching denver (note that this is not confirmed, or rather, it's confirmed, just not that it's the benny cast).

and calling guam  :-)

90 days 90 days 90 days 90 days 90 days 90 days 90 days

the first review from atlanta (with more buffyprey).

speaking of which, the next two episodes are angel "becoming".  random enuff?  :-)

amber, i just got our lion king tix!  w00!

here's a lovely picture of roger & leigh in miami  :-)

and another of "the girlz" (anika, hallie & leigh)

new rent articles from atlanta - check adam out!  :-)

speaking of adam, here he is in miami with paul.

someone wrote wanting to see more cary - here ya go.

good laura review from the angel tour board   :-)

"LAURA: WOW!!! She is really amazing. I LOVED her! First of all, she is absolutely beautiful! She has a smile that lights up her face and she is wonderful to watch. Her voice is perfect and she really seems to have clicked with the cast (and Christian) already. Her OUT TONIGHT was like nothing I have ever seen before. She was all over the rails and the back wall. On the part right before she lets her hair down, she is standing up on the rails and literally does a back bend. She "rides" the rail like it's a horse and it's incredibly erotic (as my husband says with envy, "Lucky rail!") She is a phenomenal dancer and really flexible. She jumps down the last 5+ stairs when she sings "hit the street" and lands in a very feline like crouch. The only improvement she might want to make is during LA VIE BOHEME. Her "lawn chair handcuff dance to the sound of ice tea being stirred" could really be a showcase for her amazing abilities. I really enjoyed her as Mimi and I think anyone who sees her will agree!"

the first article out of hartford.

leigh, hallie & kye in miami - MWAH!  :-)

at barnes & noble today:  the new york times and the atlanta journal constitution and the london times - get them for RENT stuff.

a nice pic of cary, leigh & paul in miami :-)

and a great pic of leigh & cary  :-)

this is the cutest picture i've seen in awhile, a classic - leigh & elsie m00000000 :-)

the august 15th tickets i was getting thru work are Sold Out.