The lovely goddess,Daphne Rubin-Vega, who will always be the one and only Mimi of RENT
Daphne on June 22,1996 - my first picture of her
Daphne in May of 1996...ah the good ol' days İTroy
An old and weird pic of Daphne from the new Theatre World book
Daphne in the 80's- Pajama Party days (from album cover)
A pretty headshot of Daphne (not from playbill)
Pic of Daphne and Idina in their dressingroom from random NJ paper
Daphne and Idina at the Obie Awards
İDaily News
Daphne and Adam at the Theater World awards
Daphne and Mark Setlock İM. Setlock
Daphne signing autographs
A nice shot of Daphne İLaura/Bridge
Me and Daphne after her last show, April 5, 1997
Daphne at Capeman stagedoor - January 28, 1998
Daphne at the "Wild Things" premiere İHollywood Online
Daphne after a performance of "Gum"
Daphne and Idina - July 16, 2000 İFrank Di Lella
Daphne after a performance of "Rocky Horror" - November 2000
Daphne and Aiko - September 9, 2001
Did you all think I'd miss out on seeing Daphne once again as 'Mimi"?! I think not. Here are some pictures from the Los Angeles/San Francisco run:
Daphne in the LA Times RENT ad
Daphne signing an autograph in LA
Daphne chatting with a friend (bad scan)
Our RENT couple: "Tidina"...Aren't they cute? İLauren Veltre
Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel at the opening of "The Lion King" İBruce Glikas
Taye and Idina at J Music World İBruce Glikas
Taye smilin' in his orange shirt İVada
Amy w/Taye Diggs... İAmy Lowen
Idina Menzel with Daphne in the background
Idina signing autographs
Idina in costume collecting BCEFA money İLisa Blohm
Idina and Fredi at J Music World İBruce Glikas
Idina at her signing at HMV
Idina at the NYTW OBC RENT reunion 7/16/00
Kristen Lee Kelly looking very "paris" :) May 1997
Kristen on January 28, 1997
Kristen signing autographs
Kristen and Schele Williams 8/24/97
Kristen with flowers 9/27/97
Mark Setlock and Kristen (wearing the Act 2 Angel wig!) İM. Setlock
Kristen at the NYTW OBC RENT reunion 7/16/00
Kristen w/Sam Trammel in The Dairy of Anne Frank
Jesse L. Martin w00!
Jesse and Anthony Rapp, from a magazine in London
Aiko! :-)
Aiko Nakasone and Anthony Rapp
One of Aiko's headshots (not the one in playbill)
Another Aiko headshot, not from playbill
Aiko after the March 3, 1997 benefit
Aiko waving at camera
Aiko signing autographs İLauren Veltre
Aiko pausing for a smile İMarny
Aiko with Steph cut out :-) İSteph12223@aol.com
Aiko and Marny after Aiko's last show
İMarny
Aiko at Idina's signing at HMV İMarny
Aiko and Shayna Steele
Aiko and Shelley Dickinson at the NYTW OBC RENT reunion
Yassmin Alers - 9/18/96
Cute headshot of Yassmin (not from playbill)
Yassmin and her sister, Carmine
Yassmin posing next to the understudy board after her 2nd Mimi performance İSerena
Eva with Yassmin
Patrice with Yassmin
Tommy with Yassmin İTommy Creatore
Yassmin signing an autograph
Yassmin and Schele Williams at Capeman
Random picture of Yassmin İMarny
Yassmin during "Out Tonight" İThe Charlotte Observer
Yassmin and Christian Mena during "Another Day" İAt The Shore (Atlantic City Press)
Yassmin and Adam in costume as 'Mimi' and 'Roger' İPrivate Eye Music
Yassmin posing with her old 1996 Act 2 'Mimi' dress
They sold this dress at the Broadway Flea Market. I now own it. :-)
Fredi Walker on Christmas eve in 1996
Fredi after her last show 11/2/97
Wilson Jermaine Heredia lookin' good İSerena
Wilson with a candy cane in his mouth, 12/24/96
Wilson and Anthony Rapp
Pic of Wilson from London Time Out
Adam Pascal hailing a cab :-) İLauren Veltre
Adam after the show with a nice smile İLauren Veltre
Adam with blue hair at The Elbow Room İLauren Veltre
From London Time Out: Adam drapped in the American flag
London Time Out: Adam and Wilson
Gilles Chiasson - Christmas eve '96
Gilles in Michigan - 7/26/97
Melissa and Catherine w/Gilles at his last show
Shayna Steele, August 12, 1997
Shayna in Mimi costume
Shayna and Juan Carlos Gonzales
Mark Setlock and Shelley Dickinson
Mark and Idina İM. Setlock
A pic of the original Broadway cast from the London Times
(I don't think that its ever been published in a magazine here or anything...I've never seen it before. It looks like its from the Newsweek photo shoot)
İ All RENT pics by me unless otherwise stated. Please do not use without permission.
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Review, photos, and wavs from the benefit at The Triad, 5/4/98
Photos from Idina's concert at The Bowery Ballroom
Some of my favorite and some not often seen RENT articles:
Newsday article on Daphne, Idina, Adam, and Wilson
Here's the picture from the Newsday article
An article from TheatreWeek on Daphne's Christmas memories
"Dazzling Daphne" article from The Atlanta Journal
2 blurbs about Aiko in Hawaiian papers
*** SOUNDS ***
Please be advised that all wavs are short clips and not full songs.
Daphne singing "Without You" - 7/14/96
Its got some funky piano going on in the background. I like it.
Yassmin's "Without You" - 7/11/97
Yassmin and Shelley rockin' with "Take Me Or Leave Me"
Yassmin as the waitress (on for Gilles, 4/20/97) :-)
Yassmin singing the "Seasons Of Love" solo
A bit of Daphne's dance single, "Changes"
2 lines of "Glory" uttered by the one and only Daphne Rubin-Vega
Thanks Stephen for this one! :-)
Aiko with her one line in "TOMMY" :-)
Wavs of Yassmin in Capeman can be found on my Capeman page
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