No!!

[dancing_nerd]

[Just before the curtain rises on the opera Carmen.]

Guy: Do you know the show?
Girl: Uh-uh.
Guy: It's sooo sad. Like Rent.
Girl: Oooh. Wow.

--The Met
via Overheard in New York, May 31, 2008

You do know that Rent was based off the opera La Boheme (my favorite opera in the whole universe), right???????????????

Comments

[tedeisenstein]

Really? No way! Next thing you know, you'll be tellling me West Side Story is based on something by some really old dude named Shakespeare!

(Well, okay, so perhaps I've had a broader traditional education than most people.....)

[dancing_nerd]

I just love the irony that they were having this conversation in the Met, where my favorite performance of La Boheme was done :)

[dancing_nerd]

ME TOO!!!

[leaw123]

When I saw La Boheme it reminded me of a Bruce Springsteen song.

[dancing_nerd]

Which one??

[leaw123]

Springsteen in general is very operatic and middle class - sprawling stories of regular people. "Thunder Road" for example.

[leaw123]

http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/ThunderRoad.html