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B-level musical, A-level performers

Written by Sara-Ashley Bischoff, Senior Writer
Published: Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
    This year, Princeton University Players, Princeton's student-run musical theater group, is opening its season with "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!" an autobiographical musical by Jonathan Larson, who wrote the acclaimed musical "Rent."

    Directed by Andrea Grody '11, "Tick, Tick ... BOOM!" tells ...

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  • 7:11 p.m. on Oct. 2nd, 2008
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    You know who this is

    I just want to point out that, bad as the script for Tick Tick Boom may be, NOTHING is as bad as Rent.

  • 10:26 p.m. on Oct. 2nd, 2008
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    Me

    Rent is beautiful, you idiot.

  • 10:58 p.m. on Oct. 2nd, 2008
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    to "Me"

    If by "beautiful," you mean, "so poorly written it is impossible to discern why anyone at all would like it," then you are correct. The plot is hazy, the dramatic construction is shoddy, the characters are wildly unrealistic at best, and the lyrics are simply terrible. For a musical dealing with the reality of AIDS that doesn't suck, see William Finn and James Lapine's 'Falsettos.'

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