The host opens with brief banter and plays a snippet from the song Santa Fe from the musical Rent, greeting viewers and setting a warm tone for the episode.
The host opens with brief banter and plays a snippet from the song Santa Fe from the musical Rent, greeting viewers and setting a warm tone for the episode.
This section outlines Rent's central idea that belongings and relationships are temporary, and identifies Jonathan Larson as the composer who brought the musical to life.
The host recounts that Larson suffered a fatal brain aneurysm the night before Rent's Broadway premiere, and how the cast and crew chose to open the show anyway, underscoring the musical's motto.
Drawing from Rent's tagline 'no day but today,' the host discusses living in the moment, 'enoughness,' and how highs and lows all contribute to a meaningful life.
A brief goodbye with light commentary and playful lines that wrap up the episode.
Pass. That's the best. wonderful little part where all of them just start woeing in beautiful harmony. Good morning, Jules. Nice to see you. That was a little Santa Fe from the musical Rent written by Jonathan Larson. Premiered on Broadway at the Nederlander Theater 30 years ago this week. It's a story that has lessons. So I've been swimming in that pool right here on Cadre Today all week long. How we doing Cadre? I hope you're doing great on this Sunday, May 3rd. It is May 3rd in the year 2026.
By golly. I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know the things I know and I care about you. So as I just mentioned, that song is from a musical called Rent. It's a story of people who are realizing that everything that they own here on this planet during their life, they only have for a specific amount of time before they're not here or the thing doesn't belong to them anymore. Their fame or their status or their relationship or their love or their knowledge, it's always changing. So that song about Santa Fe is three of the characters going, hey, what if we all left Alphabet City in New York and went to Santa Fe and opened up a little restaurant and the musician could play music in the restaurant and the storyteller could write the menu and so on and so forth.
It's a beautiful song. This musical is composed by gentleman named Jonathan Larson. And Jonathan never got to see Rent. You may be like, Wait, you said he wrote it. Yep, he wrote it. And he helped bring the thing to life. Literally brought it to the Broadway stage. And the night before the show opened on Broadway, he had a brain aneurysm and he died. They didn't know that, like it wasn't even, it was a freak thing. Didn't even know. The night before his musical opened, he passed away. And the cast and the company and the crew and the producers and everybody, they carried on.
And they opened the show anyways because there's kind of the headline of the show is, no day but today. The show is about being in the moment that you are in. It is literally the Enoughness musical. It's literally the thin space musical, which is what we often talk about here on Sundays. And as great stories often go, the guy who taught the world that there's no day but today, so live, didn't get to see his musical about living for today because he wasn't alive the day that it opened. And I always finished cadre today by saying, so today I invite you to, but I think that'd be a little too on the nose.
Because as we hear that story and we go, it stops us in our tracks, I think. Today is a day. You have the opportunity to do something with it. There isn't a right thing. There isn't a, you need to do more because today is the last day. No, it's not that. It's right now that you're living a life and that this day is part of it. And the highs and the lows, the easies and the hards, the lights and the darks, and all those are part of a really great story. So live today because there truly is no day but.
Have a good one. It's so beautiful. Then it falls down. Then it falls down and down. Hey, do you know the way to Santa Fe? Dumbleweeds.
