no day but today

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i don't think there is a musical that affected me the way that rent has (there was the lion king show in broadway which brought me to tears during the opening but it was more on relief that i got to watch the show after waiting for hours in line to get in) .

i got to watch the show in manila when eric and i were still dating,that was around 2001...about six years ago. i don't think we were even officially boyfriend-girlfriend back then.

anyway, the husband has a copy of the soundtrack and we would play it in the car every now and then. that's why seasons of love became one of our fave songs (we even included it in our wedding vid and prior that has been my signature ringtone that no one seems to recognize).

when i was in new york back in 2004 i was deciding on watching the lion king or rent in broadway but since i already watched the rent production in manila and have been wanting to watch the lionking in westend since 2003, i decided to just go and see the lion king (which by the way is a spectacular production).

when rent the movie came out last year, eric was so excited but i don't think it reached the cinemas in sydney so we just waited for it to be available in our friendly neighborhood blockbuster. a couple of months ago, we did just that. eric and i couldn't help but sing while watching the movie! i don't know why but the musical seemed to have affected me in some way after that. i have this need now to watch it again on stage and i'd constantly listen to the soundtrack on my way to work.

if you haven't seen it, i suggest you head out to your nearest video rental shop and rent it, literally.

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ps. i have been wanting to blog about this since after watching the movie but never got around in doing just that. thanks to liv for inspiring me to blog about my rent experience.