Rent (20th Anniversary)
This Ends at Prom
Brennan Klein
4.8 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 115 minutes
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Summary
"How do you measure a year in the life?"
May-usical month comes to an end as The Wives Colangelo reflect on the film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's groundbreaking musical, RENT, 20 years later. What do we do with a show that was so important to a generation that hasn't quite held up to the hourglass of time? What do we do with a show that would probably benefit from some rewrites, but is untouchable as the last work of someone who was taken from us too soon? What the hell do we do with RENT?! Well, we're going to try and figure it out!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, and welcome to This Ends at Prom. |
| 0:05.0 | A coming-of-age podcast highlighting cinema about or marketed towards teen girls. |
| 0:10.3 | I'm one of your hosts, BJ Colangelo, and I'm joined by my wife. |
| 0:14.6 | Harmony Colangelo, a trans woman who grew up watching none of these movies. |
| 0:18.9 | Is today's movie a Queen Bee? |
| 0:20.9 | Or are we killing the teen dream? |
| 0:23.2 | Get in loser. |
| 0:24.4 | We're analyzing the movies. |
| 0:25.7 | People make fun of us for loving. |
| 0:28.3 | I don't want to be your merch girl. |
| 0:31.8 | I want to be your goddamn idol. |
| 0:35.3 | And I don't want to have to work twice as hard for the same motherfucking title |
| 0:41.3 | but I realize that I probably won't be so lucky. |
| 1:00.0 | How do you document real life when real life's getting more like fiction each day? |
| 1:10.0 | I don't know, Mark. |
| 1:10.9 | It's called a documentary. |
| 1:12.4 | You just document it. |
| 1:14.7 | What are you getting at? |
| 1:15.8 | Like, I get what you're getting at. |
| 1:17.3 | We're beyond parody. |
| 1:18.5 | Fine, but still. |
| 1:20.9 | Listen, we could have started this episode by singing Seasons of Love. |
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