But in fairness, about halfway through the show, they sorta seem to stop shouting “look how topical we are!” so much and just start focusing more on just telling the story about the character’s interrelationships, and it gets palatable from there. Not to the point where you should feel you missed anything by walking out, but enough that one can see the whole thing and not have to feel like “well there’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back”.

I nearly have locational amnesia…if I see people even that I know very well, but they are in a place I don’t expect them to be, it can take me close to a minute to even realize I know who they are when they start talking to me. If my mind is off doing something on it’s own while I’m wandering through an airport or something, it’s even worse.

However, it is very cool to run into people you know in NYC or other big cities. I once ran into a friend from Nashville walking down the street in Philly and learned we were living 4 blocks from each other in Philly.

-Sam

I haven’t heard anyone feel quite the way you guys did about “Rent”. I haven’t seen it, and really haven’t wanted to for personal reasons, but there is something refreshing about you voicing your true feelings about it rather than just the patronizing, “great show!” just because it’s the trendy thing to like.