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''The Real World'' (retrospectively referred to as ''The Real World: New York'', to distinguish it from subsequent installments of the series) is the first season of MTV's reality television series ''The Real World'', which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras follow their lives and interpersonal relationships. It was created by producers Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray. It is the first season of ''The Real World'' to be filmed in the Mid-Atlantic States region of the United States, specifically in New York. The cast consisted of seven people who were paid $2,600 to appear on the series.〔Blake, Meredith (June 6, 2011). ("This is the True Story..." ). The A.V. Club.〕 The cast was filmed living in a SoHo loft from February 16 to May 18, 1992,〔''The Real World Diaries''. Pocket Books. 1996. p. 210.〕〔("SoHo Loft" ). realworldhouses.com. November 28, 2010〕 The series premiered May 21 of that year. This is the first of three seasons to be filmed in New York City. In 2001, the show returned to the city in its tenth season, ''The Real World: Back to New York'', and in 2008, set its twenty-first season, ''The Real World: Brooklyn'',〔Sicha, Choire (May 13, 2008). ("The Real World: Brooklyn. For Real." ) ''The New York Observer''.〕 in the borough of Brooklyn. Isiah Thomas, Dennis Rodman and Bill Laimbeer make cameo appearances in Episode 5, when castmates Eric Nies and Kevin Powell attend a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden. Larry Johnson appears in Episode 7 to meet castmates Heather Gardner and Julie Gentry, who attend a Hornets game at the Brendan Byrne Arena. Matt Pinfield, a radio host for 106.3 FM, has a cameo in Episode 8 when cast member Andre Comeau's band, Reigndance, appears for an interview with that station. In Episode 9, cast members attend a rally for 1992 U.S. Presidential candidate Jerry Brown, at which both Brown and Michael Moore are shown speaking. ==Production history== ''The Real World'' was originally inspired by the popularity of youth-oriented shows of the 1990s like ''Beverly Hills 90210'' and ''Melrose Place''. Bunim and Murray initially considered developing a scripted series in a similar vein, but quickly decided that the cost of paying writers, actors, costume designers, and make-up artists was too high.〔Blake, Meredith (June 6, 2011). ("This is the True Story..." ). The A.V. Club.〕 Bunim and Murray decided against this idea, and at the last minute, pulled the concept (and the cast) before it became the first season of the show. Tracy Grandstaff, one of the original seven picked for what has come to be known as "Season 0", went on to minor fame as the voice of the animated ''Beavis and Butt-head'' character Daria Morgendorffer, who eventually got her own spinoff, ''Daria''. Dutch TV producer Erik Latour claims that the ideas for ''The Real World'' were directly derived from his television show ''Nummer 28'', which aired in 1991 on Dutch television.〔Van den Boogaard, Raymond (September 28, 1996 ). ("Zeven werklozen samen op zoek naar een baan" ). (Dutch).〕 Bunim/Murray decided upon the cheaper idea of casting a bunch of "regular people" to live in an apartment and taping their day-to-day lives, believing seven diverse people would have enough of a basis upon which to interact without scripts. The production cast seven cast members from 500 applicants, paying them $2,600 for their time on the show.〔 The production discovered a nine-story, ten-unit residential co-op building at 565 Broadway, at the corner of Prince Street, in Manhattan's SoHo district, after much searching,〔 and converted the massive, 4000-square-foot duplex to be the residence and filming location.〔 Walls separating two adjacent apartments on the second and third floors were removed in order to form a single , four bedroom residence, and were renovated for the filming of the series. Production personnel, which included up to 13 people at one time, utilized a work space with a separate entrance.〔〔The door number is also shown in various scenes, such as Act 2 of Episode 5 and Act 1 of Episode 9.〕 The cast lived in the loft from February 16 to May 18, 1992. The series premiered three days later, on May 21, 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Real World: New York」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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