March 22, 2006

Rent The Musical, TICC, 02/11/2006

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The Asian traveling show featured Karen Mok as Mimi. Having an Asian pop star play a petulant pretty girl is a rather inspired casting choice, not to mention the box-office benefits of the name-recognition. She's certainly done enough acting to handle that part of the role, but she had the chops to handle the big show-tunes, too, which is more than you can say for most other Sino-Pop ingenues.

The TICC is lousy show venue. The seats are pitched steeply so the energy projected from the stage never reaches half the house. The stage is small and we were sitting very, very far away. At least I could still hear the songs and listen to the dialog. GF and friends couldn't see the subtitle screens very well so they all ended up half-asleep.

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Posted by mikewang on March 22, 2006 10:33 PM