MeganDawn_Writes as MystikCeleste

  We raise our glass You bet your ass La Vie Boheme To days of inspiration Playing hookie Making something out of nothing The need to express  To communicate To go against the grain Going insane Going mad To loving tension No pension To more than one dimension To starving for attention Hating convention Hating pretension - La Vie Boheme from the musical Rent, written by Jonathan Larson Rent is one of the best musicals to ever be brought into existence. It goes without saying that Larson was a genius. But Rent is a bona fide masterpiece. It is fast and furious, fun and heartbreaking. The songs are rocking and danceable. The story is brutally honest and completely inspiring. I have seen several versions of this musical - from the OG Broadway cast to the Rent Live on Broadway that is on Amazon Prime to the 2010 Hollywood Bowl version and love them all. But I adore that Hollywood Bowl version and someday Neil Patrick Harris and I will have a conversation about releasing it to stre...

 " An awful lot of people have gone, historically, to musicals to forget their troubles. 'Come on get happy.' I'm not interested in that. I'm not interested in making people unhappy, but I'm not interested in not looking at life. I don't know why I want to write it, otherwise. - Stephen Sondheim, Broadway Composer & Lyricist - Six By Sondheim  An iconic quote from one of the most powerful and loved names in the world of Broadway. In the way only Sondheim can, he has nailed the beauty of musicals. They are not just about making people happy or to forget their troubles. They are about life - looking at life, what happens to us, what we all go through, and giving us a fresh way to look at life. In that same documentary, he goes on to say that art is making order out of chaos. And I think that is exactly what musicals do. They make order out of the chaos that is life. Musicals are and have been one of my favorite things for as long as I can remember.  The m...