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MOVIE SYNOPSIS
In New York's East Village, a group of bohemians struggle to express themselves through their art and strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, illness and the AIDS epidemic. Roger is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend's suicide. Despite his attraction, he is reluctant to start a new romance with his downstairs neighbor Mimi Marquez, an exotic dancer struggling with "baggage of her own." Roger's roommate Mark is a filmmaker trying to balance art and commerce. His girlfriend Maureen, a self-indulgent performance artist, recently left him for a lawyer named Joanne. Also part of this close-knit circle is Tom Collins, a professor of philosophy who, after being mugged, is rescued by his soul mate, a high-spirited street drummer, Angel Shunard. Benny, who alienated his friends after he married their landlord's daughter, has reneged on his promise to provide rent-free artist space to his bohemian friends. Once a close friend, he is now viewed as the enemy, threatening them with eviction.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION
Roger Davis is an aspiring songwriter who has emotionally shut down after his girlfriend's suicide after finding out that they were both HIV positive. He aspires to write one great song before he dies, but is unable to do so until he meets his muse, Mimi Marquez. However, despite his attraction to her, he is reluctant to start a new romance her due to both his HIV status as well as his past emotional scars.
PRODUCTION TRIVIA
Originally during the "One Song Glory" number there was going to be one flashback of April lying dead in the bathtub, but it was hard to decide when to show it, so it was deleted.
After "Today 4 U" scene, a couple of moments were added by the actors after the director called, "Cut." They are Tom Collins making the "whipped" gesture and sound in regards to Mark's reaction to Maureen's phonecall, and Angel hopping out of the screen when he says goodbye to Roger.
Daphne Rubin-Vega and Fredi Walker, the original Broadway Mimi and Joanne, are the only two lead cast members not to reprise their roles for this film. By the time the film went into production, nearly ten years after its first performance, Walker, by her own admission, was too old to play Joanne. Rubin-Vega was pregnant at the time of filming, and was also nearly fifteen years older than the nineteen-year-old Mimi.
Credit: Official Musical Site, IMDB, and Yahoo! Movies
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