RENT was..

Rent was great. The Opera house amplified and reverberated the music perfectly. After listening to Carnival Cruise line vocalists, it was such a dramatic change to hear the vocalists in this musical. I know the cruise line tries but man oh man did the vocalists and performers in Rent do it justice.

Now, we both obviously heard of Rent before but we are not cultured enough to know what it was about. We didn't want to spoil it by reading up on it beforehand. I'm glad we didn't but there were also storylines that we didn't quite grasp until the end.

Anyway, my favorite song was One Song Glory and then of course Seasons of Love. I also really liked Light my Candle.

There were kids in the audience which surprised me but Erik thinks maybe Australians are like Canadians and they don't treat the taboo things as off limits. Since this show has a lot of drug usage and sexual scenes.

One of the characters was a drag artist. At first (mind you were up pretty high) we had no idea if the character was male or female. Then, later in the show they called the character a he and also a she but said they were a drag artist. That made more sense.

The show itself is based on a bunch of struggling artists in New York around the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

There was usually so much going on on stage that you had to figure out who you wanted to focus on. Some of the vocals were also so loud or blended in with other vocalists that you couldn't hear their words.

Other than that. Perfect!

You're not allowed to take photos during the show.

Once it was done, Erik and I went to see if Benny the Seal (he lives on the steps of the Opera House) was around, but he wasn't. Then we grabbed some gelato and made our trek back to the hotel.

The light rail was easy to locate. The bus after that was mildly more complicated. Once we realized where to go, things came together much easier.

We finished our day with 13600 steps. Showered and now are ready for bed. We have to be up for breakfast around 630am and shuttle at 730am.Lue lisää