RENT (Hope Mill Theatre/Umbrella Rooms)****

By Cal

Link: https://hopemilltheatre.co.uk/events/rent-online £20

Available until: Shows Friday and Saturday at 7.30pm and Sundays at 7pm. The final performance is Sunday 20^th December. The video is available from 7.15-11pm so you don’t need to watch it live, but you do need to watch it on the same night.

Content warning: Drug-use, strong language & themes of adult content. Parental guidance required for children under 15.

169 years ago, a man called Henri Murger wrote a series of stories called Scènes de la vie de bohème. This inspired not one but two composers to write an opera called La bohème. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1897 opera is actually really good, but it is Puccini’s 1896 opera that was embraced by the public – and which inspired composer, lyricist and writer Jonathan Morgan to create a musical based on La bohème but set in Lower Manhattan in New York. Sadly he did not live to enjoy the success of the musical, he died the night before the Off-Broadway premiere in 1996. But the show has proved popular. There have been a number of UK productions including three in the West End and one in a paper mill, as well as an eight-year run on Broadway.

OLIVER TOMPSETT CONCERT (U R Live at the Umbrella Rooms)****

 

By Imogen

Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/olivertompsett?autoplay=1 It costs £10 to rent it but you can watch it as many times as you like for a whole week!

Available until: It’s been on the site for ages and I haven’t heard anything about them taking it down.

This is another brilliant concert from U R Live! Oliver Tompsett is so talented and he’s such a nice man too. He’s put together a really clever programme which shows how versatile he is but it also meant he could talk about his life and career and about lockdown in a really natural way that flowed from one song to the next.

LOUISE DEARMAN CONCERT (UR Live at the Umbrella Rooms)*****

 

By Imogen

Link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/louisedearman (You will need to create an account and pay £10 but you get access for a week)

Available until: You can rent it for a week but I think it will be available to rent for at least a month because they’ve got an Oliver Tompsett concert on there from about a month ago (which I’m glad about because I want to see it, he’s hot)

This concert is £10 for a week’s access which would be a lot if I had to pay it but I didn’t and the concert would cost a lot more if you went in person and this way you don’t have to pay for transport which might be full of germy people or a really expensive meal which is really nice but everyone’s taking their masks off and how do you know where they’ve been? Why can’t people just be responsible like me? I haven’t been on a date since March, that’s FIVE MONTHS. I don’t think I’ve ever gone that long without kissing a boy in my WHOLE LIFE. It’s a terrible sacrifice but I have to do the right thing for humanity.