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(TRIS and MEREDITH are watching the BAZ LUHRMANN version of LA BOHEME, on which much of RENT is apparently based. It is Act Four.)

(CHERYL BARKER, as MIMI, belts out several impossibly high notes, molto fortissimo.)

MEREDITH: You're dying and you can sing like that?
TRIS: Yeah, I'm about ready to forgive Trinity.

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[ktempest.livejournal.com]

bwahahahahahhaaa!!

When I was in high school my friend and I were given tickets to the opera La Traviasta (or whatever) at the Cincinnati Opera. The production was very good, but when we got to the end bit when the protagonette is dying of consumption ("How can you tell?" I snarked to my friend, "she was too skinny to begin with.") and so sad that her love isn't there blah blah blah. Then the protag comes in and is like, "OH, I'm so sorry I had abandoned you it was my dad's fault I still love you I always have!" and they embrace.

Then the protagonette gets up from her comsumption couch and starts singing something to the effect of, "Now that you're here I suddenly I feel better! The pain is gone!" and etc. I leaned over to my friend and said: "She must not know this is an opera."

My friend laughed out loud, disrupting the beautiful moment that was the protagonette falling over dead.