Rent is closing on B'way- Opinions?

Question:If have not heard yet, Rent is closing on Broadway. If you do not believe, I suggest clicking the link I provided : http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114...

What are your opinions on this? Are you utterly depressed? Do you think it had a good run? Are you happy? Please, share what you think.

Please, let's keep this mature. No saying "lolz im soo happy, it suxxx!!!!1" or "Ohh nooooz, i luv dat shooow!!1!"
Use your Shift key to capatalize your words too.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: If have not heard yet, Rent is closing on Broadway. If you do not believe, I suggest clicking the link I provided : http://www.playbill.com/news/article/114...

What are your opinions on this? Are you utterly depressed? Do you think it had a good run? Are you happy? Please, share what you think.

Please, let's keep this mature. No saying "lolz im soo happy, it suxxx!!!!1" or "Ohh nooooz, i luv dat shooow!!1!"
Use your Shift key to capatalize your words too.

Well, I'm fairly depressed. I was crying a minute ago and my eyes are still red. It's such a moving show, and it's touched so may hearts over the past 12 years, that it kills me to realize that it's finally colsing. I guess the thing to keep in mind is that even though the show is comming to an end, it's message and it's amazing music will hold strong. Jonathan Larson would be pround of his accomplishments and I know that no matter what happens, Rent will always be in my heart and soul. It had a great run and stared so may amazing actors and actresses, and I know that it's last few months on Broadway will be great.

Now, I know that this last sentence will be cleche (if that's even how you spell it), but I just feel that it's all too necessary

Thank you, Jonathan Larson. You changed my life.

I'm really depressed, because I never got to see it and now probably never will, unless I can magically talk my parents into letting me see it when we go on vacation in the summer. {Which is higly unlikely, since they want me to be older...which I understand too..}

I think it had an amazing run! It's had, what, the 7th longest run in Broadway history? It seems a lot of shows I want to see I always just miss. =[ Hopefully "Phantom" will keep running for a while, it's one of my favourites. Les Miserables just closed and I never got to see that either. {Maybe another revival soon?!?}

It would be amazing if they could record Rent like they've done to Legally Blonde and other shows and put it on TV! I'd be happy with a DVD release, even.

I'm saddened, but no show runs forever. Rent is an amazing show. One that actually incorporates the audience into as their watching, almost making you feel like another member of the circle. Rent has had an amazing run and I'm grateful for it (and lesser so for the lesser piece of film that it created, but will at least have caught the performances of the original cast on tape), and it will always have a spot as one of my favorite shows.

I just got home from rehearsal and found out, and I am INCREDIBLY depressed about it!!!

Yes, it had a long and successful run. Yes, I have seen the Broadway show three times. But Rent was a boundary-busting musical! It set such an important milestone in the history of American musical theatre and I am sad to see it go. I want to know why it closed - if it's starting to lose money, or if the producers just thought it had had a long enough run...

Is a show going to take its place in the theater, or will there be another empty theater to add to the list? Is it just me, or does it feel like there have been more empty theaters as of late?? I'm just so annoyed - 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Les Miserables, some great dramas, and now Rent all closed or closing!! What is happening to Broadway?

Really? Gutted for you - I haven't seen it in the theatre but the film is great. It's just opened in the West End though

I really love RENT a lot, but I think it was time for it to close

I have now seen "Rent" 12 times the first time was in 1996 when it first opened. I will never forget my first time. I had standing room tickets and saw it with my dear friend who's boyfriend had been diagnosed HIV positive that week. We stood in the back of the theatre sobbing our eyes out.

So much has changed since then. Back then I was living in NYC and felt as if I was watching myself and my friends on the stage. I laughed out loud at so many of the lines that could have come right out of our mouths and infact often had. I cried at the losses that at the time my friends and I were also facing. 12 years later I still love the show and happily would see it again and again but it now feels as old as I am. It feels a bit like the end of an era. I can't say that I am depressed because it is closing because the relevance the show once held has dimmed and yes perhaps it is time. But it does feel a bit like a loss of another friend.

I am very upset that it is closing but it had a good run I loved the show but ticket sales are down and as many know this is the nature of this business. But I am so sad I saw this show 15 times between Broadway and National Tour.