I wore out my
Rent soundtrack once upon a time, but can we all agree that maybe New York needs a new touchstone musical, rather than a
revival of the show?
In the Heights wasn't transgressive enough, however much I loved
Passing Strange it was a little too artsy in its transgressiveness (and too international for its dreams to seem attainable). We need something, though.
Rent's beyond canon, into cliche, and it's time for it to get shoved off its pedestal.