From talking to the cast last night and in the past few days, people aren't
Oh my bloody head. Why did I have to be in work at 9 this morning? (well, 9-ish, at any rate...) Thanks a million to all of you that came out last night - it was a brillo night, full of laughter, the odd tear and some fantastic gifts and awards! Honestly, there was no need - doing RENT was reward enough :) To those that couldn't be there, you were absent, but certainly not forgotten! **distance hug** * *I've attached a PDF of the signature sheets that were passed around last night - there's some heart-warming sentiments on there, and thank you all so much for sharing your thoughts - they'll look great in the scrapbook! Roysh, down to business. We, as you must know by now, have been asked to do a performance for the Clubs & Socs Awards on *Wednesday 8th April* - that's this day week! Eeeek etc! We have been asked to do a big, full-cast, all-singing & dancing number, and the suggestions have so far been: - "Rent" seguing into "I'll Cover You (Reprise)" - "Seasons Of Love" - "Christmas Bells" - a shortened version of "La Vie Boheme" (leaving out the Mimi/Roger bit) pushed on doing two songs, "Seasons Of Love" is too short and "Christmas Bells" is both a little seasonal and a props nightmare. The frontrunner is the edited "La Vie Boheme" - it involves the entire cast, only needs tables & chairs and is a big rollicking number. So would it be safe to say we'll go with that? *Pending John & Kevin's availability*, I'd like to call rehearsals for *this Sunday at 4pm* in the Henry Grattan Building, and another on Monday evening, if necessary - we'll decide that on Sunday. We'll be doing the song to a backing track, and I should have that sorted out for you over the next day or so. It'll be "La Vie Boheme" and "La Vie Boheme B" spliced together, just without the Roger/Mimi bit in the middle. You will be wearing mics, DCU Drama only has 16 of them, so the rest of you will have to SING UP! I'll be in touch to confirm the rehearsals - please consider these AS IMPORTANT AS A DRESS REHEARSAL, as you will be performing to over 400 people on the night. *RENT is nominated for DCU Society Event of the Year - so let's show them why!* I've also added the complete nominations and winners (*in bold*) for this year's ANTO Awards (like the TONYs, only not as posh). Well done to all the nominees and winners! * The "Fame" Award for Best Dancer:* Nominees: - Ciara for "Out Tonight" - Niamh for "Out Tonight" - Sinead for "Out Tonight" - Alan for "Tango Maureen" - Stevi for "Tango Maureen" *- Damien for "Today 4 You"* - Ed Leamy for being "inconspicuous" *The "Meryl Streep" Award for Best Accent:* Nominees: *- Drew Alperin for Benny* *The "Tom Cruise" Award for Worst Accent:* Nominees: *- Ed Leamy for the Oirish Priest* *The "Lifetime AIDS-chievement" Award:* Nominees: *- Alan McHale, for realising his life's ambition at the age of 22, and finally getting to play Mark* - Dave Grimes, for taking part in his 6th DCU Drama Musical - Jenni & Alan, for their 4th year in a row designing the Musical Set - Bob's brown suit, for appearing in its 4th DCU Drama musical - John Cannon, for still being alive *The "Man, You Look Good In Those Leggings/Tight Pants/Virtually Nothing" Award:* Nominees: *- Niamh/Mimi* - Fiona/Maureen - Damien/Angel - Sinead/Dancer - Ciara/Dancer *The "Horticulturalist" Award:* Nominees: - Damien/Angel for "trimming her tree" with drumsticks *- John Cannon for his Christmas Tree design* - Sean/Tom Collins for his "marijuana!" line during "La Vie Boheme" *The "Benjamin Coffin III Award for Selling-Out":* Nominees: - Alan/Mark for selling out to Alex Darling (retracted, so nomination is withdrawn) *- The PR Team for selling out The Helix* *The "Only Straight Guy Playing a Gay Guy" Award:* Nominees: *- Steve Grimes, Alex Darling* *The "Tom Collins Award for most Anti-Establishment activity in the name of RENT":* Nominees: - Bob, for repeatedly spamming over 2500 email addresses - The Set team for stealing so much of the set, and for the illegal packing in of Bob's car *- The Set team for being in the Helix for 14 hours on Saturday, when we'd paid for 2!* *The "John Donnelly" Award for Best Cameo:* Nominees: - Cian for not handing Fiona the microphone *- Jenni for managing to hand Fiona the microphone* - Bob's hip flask full of Jameson on Thursday night - the entire backstage crew during "Seasons of Love" - Ollie the Eyeball on the Christmas Tree *The "Cowbell" Award for Most Annoying Piece of Equipment:* Nominees: - The Projector *- Fiona's mic* - The Snow machine always being juuuuust a little bit late - that string on Barry's guitar for being out of tune on Thursday night * The "Now That's What I Call Versatile" Award:* Nominees: - Ciara, for playing a stripper during "Out Tonight" AND playing Mimi's mother - weird or what! *- Sinead, for playing a stripper, Joanne's mother AND a homeless person!* *(and a cow!)* - Damien, for playing Angel (come on, in fairness) - Holly for playing Mark's mom, and then sitting beside him in "La Vie Boheme", without comment from anyone! - Steve Grimes: "Christmas Bells" Guy, Alex Darling, "Paul" and more... - John Cannon: "Gordon", Hilarious Aggressive Homeless Guy, and many more... - Ed Leamy - only Ed could play a Drug Dealer AND an Oirish Priest *The "Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair" Award for Best Kiss:* Nominees: - Barry & Niamh - Fiona & Stevi *- Sean & Damien* * The Maureen Johnson Award for most diva-ish moment:* Nominees: - John Donnelly, for his brief but memorable trip to the stage during the matinee - Dave & Kev in the band, for demanding chairs for their guitar amps *- Maeve McQuillan for crying uncontrollably backstage during the finale* - Steve Grimes for refusing to eat his Meatless Balls - The projector, for refusing to work with any laptop except Robin's Prozac, Heavy Drugs & Group Hugs, Bob -- RENT - the DCU Musical 2009 March 2009, The Helix, DCU http://www.dcuforrent.com/tickets.html http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055486907 http://dcuforrent.bebo.com http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=53017994817&aref=20839491 http://www.aims.ie/interact_discuss_displaythread.asp?ForumName=Events%20Forum&ForumTag=events&ParentID=120090 http://www.aims.ie/interact_discuss_displaythread.asp?ForumName=Chit-Chat&ForumTag=chitchat&ParentID=121045