ess, or living with AIDS. He wishes to produce a film recounting the events that occurred around him, so that the whole world could experience their magic. He achieves his goal at the end of the production, as the audience is able to experience what he had worked so hard to accomplish.During the course of a year, people fall in and out of love, get physically and mentally injured, get scared and try to escape, question everything, and die. It is an amazing tragedy that somehow leaves the viewer with a greater sense and value of life. We learn that there is no day like today and that to live a happy life we must accept that theres only us [and] . . . only this. In order not to miss out on life we must finally learn to open up to what [we] dont know. They do and understand the individual situations that are dealt to them. They have no other road [and] no other day and they learn to be okay with their own lives.The music grasps the viewer as electric guitars blare and drums are slammed. Whether the music be fast or slow, the placement of the characters on the stage is brilliant. Instead of being required to gaze directly at the center of the stage, the opposite is demanded of the spectator. One must look at the entire stage as a whole to not miss out on any of the action. The third song has the best choreography and vocal blending in the entire show, while giving the titles meaning saying everything is rent. The power blows out while the music, which is played by a band that sits almost camouflaged in the scene, ignites the night with passionate fire. The stage is completely covered by activity such as someone mugging Tom, Roger and Mark in rage, Ben rationalizing with his wife on a cellular phone, Joanne expressing how she is not a theatre person, or Maureen turning to Mark for a technical problem. This is while they all verbally express their unique situations in a way that miraculously meshes. All in 4 min and 25 seconds....
