Rent ... in San Francisco?In an exterior shot from the film version of Rent, opening November 23, San Francisco's rough but revitalizing SoMa neighborhood (at Sixth and Jesse streets) stands in for New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's EastVillage. "Sixth Street is an intense area," says the film's star Anthony Rapp. "There was a woman with an iguana iguana (ĭgwä`nə), name for several large lizards of the family Iguanidae, found in tropical America and the Galapagos. The common iguana (Iguana iguana on a leash." But filmmakers had to rush to shoot the gritty street before gentrification gentrification, the rehabilitation and settlement of decaying urban areas by middle- and high-income people. Beginning in the 1970s and 80s, higher-income professionals, drawn by low-cost housing and easier access to downtown business areas, renovated deteriorating set in. According to locations manager Jonathan Shedd, "We rearranged the city's construction schedule before they started making sidewalks bigger and planting trees." At least the hard work was rewarded--for cast members anyway. After performing take after take of the high-octane "La Vie Boheme" musical number, shot on a soundstage, producers gave away spa treatments at the luxe luxe n. 1. The condition of being elegantly sumptuous. 2. Something luxurious; a luxury. [French, luxury, from Latin luxus. Nob Hill Spa (1075 California St., 415-345-2888)."We were pretty beaten up after dancing on tables for a week," says Rapp. "I needed a good deep massage, and it was wonderful." |
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