Rent Day 4 - Opening to Rent and La Vie Boheme Lyrics

Today we sang through "La Vie Boheme" so we all know the lyrics then we started to create the opening of Rent, we started the lesson running "La Vie Boheme" just to be sure we remember it. Then we sat down with our scripts and practiced just singing it, we also gave the parts of the song that don't have specific characters sing them to people. So we ended up with the dance known and the lyrics understood, the only issue we were having was the timing of all the words, especially the "bisexual, trisexual" part, so that is something we all need to work on individually. We then ran La Vie Boheme one last time and put the dancing and vocals together, I feel that unless anything drastic happens to the show "La Vie Boheme" is basically there.

After we were happy with how La Vie Boheme looked we started to set Rent. Tom had the idea of an empty stage (except a table and maybe a few chairs) but the second the music starts everyone bursts on stage each with props and set (like chairs, tables, a bin, a ladder) and we hold this busy stage until "How we gonna pay?" we then stop face the audience and sing out to them. That is as far as we've got but I really like the sudden burst of action at the start of the song however the effectiveness of the hustle and bustle on stage will wear off pretty much after the first "how we gonna pay" so we need to choreograph the rest of the song and make it as wild and energetic as the start.