Zander05 wrote: It makes perfect sense to me. It's about a group of people in NY trying to live and survive while dealing with poverty and AIDS.
It doesn't seem like you saw the "protest" part.
It's also funny how all of them feel somehow wronged because they are expected to pay rent.
Also, at times, I suppose the Benny guy was a dick - but everyone else was 10x more of a dick to him, so I have to sympathize with him.
They were told that they wouldn't have to pay rent. And it doesn't help that everyone was ill and poor. Benny promised them all free lodging and no worries but then he turned it all around. That's harsh.
Zander05 wrote: They were told that they wouldn't have to pay rent. And it doesn't help that everyone was ill and poor. Benny promised them all free lodging and no worries but then he turned it all around. That's harsh.
I know, Benny was a dick. Did he promise everyone in all the buildings free lodging, or just his three roommates (or whatever they were)? That's where I was confused, especially since Benny told them they'd get free lodging if they stopped the protest - which they didn't.
Then again, it truly didn't seem to me that Benny was in a good position to just award free lodging to anyone. He had to act in the best interests of his superiors because, as I gathered it, he simply married into it and didn't have much power. I think he just made a promise he COULDN'T fulfill, rather than a promise he DIDN'T WANT TO fulfill. That's just my take on it.
The entire "Rent" plot of the musical aside, there are some really good other plots in it that I did enjoy. The rent thing was just a bit iffy.
Oh, and if they didn't show you what happened during the protest - it would have been 100x better. That was just...there isn't even a word for it. It made no sense.