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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
I love the music of Rent, but I think the book is dated now. It's almost a cliche. My mom and boyfriend went with me to see it last year and they didn't get its appeal at all. Living with AIDS today is way different than it was when this musical was written. For people who are seeing it for the first time now, the story is way overdramatic and unreal.
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It's based on La Boheme - written in 1896 - I think it's got the right to be dated.
As for it being overdramatic and unreal - it's a musical, and therefore saying that makes it redundant.
