Day 17-12/6/09

Show: Addams Family
Date: First Preview
Type: Audio
Cast:

Overture's kind of cool. Actually, the quality's not so great. I'm choosing something else.

Show: Caroline or Change
Date: 5/20/06
Type: Audio
Cast:

Julia Nixon has a great voice. And I'm loving Max.
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I'm just not getting into this. I'm totally lost. I'm switching

Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 8/8/08
Type: Audio
Cast: Matt Doyle (u/s Melchior), Eryn Murman (u/s Wendla), Gerard Canonico (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Andrew Durand (Georg), Amanda Castanos (Martha), Jesse Swenson (u/s Hanschen), Morgan Karr (u/s Ernst), Gabe Violett (Otto), Emily Kinney (Anna), Caitlin Kinnunen (Thea), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Glenn Fleschler (Adult Men)

(Just a note: All of the following was written on my cell phone, in 160 character chunks that were texted to my email and then compiled)
Not a huuuge fan of Eryn's voice, although she does sound fine. She's very strong in MWBMR, I definitely hear her there.
I prefer Gerard so much to Blake. And Matt's wonderful, his ATK was really good. Bitch of Living was awesome too.
It would probably take a lot of suckery for me to dislike BOL. I quite prefer Eryn in the girl’s scene over Socha. Emily is wonderfully cute.
It really surprises me how she was one of the oldest because she plays Anna quite well. Amanda was fine, but not much else. Caitlin wasn't so great. It sounds like she's constipated because it's like she's literally forcing the lines out. Not a fan of Jesse's Hanschen. It's his voice maybe. He says everything either like he's TOO serious or TOO not. Andrew was fine, Touch Me was good. The woods scene was okay Matt sounds just like Melchior should, IMO. His voice could fit in with Juniors at my school. But in WOYB Eryn completely drowns him out. I don't mind straining to hear him. But I really had to, anyone else might not have been able to. But I could at least pick out his voice because I’ve trained myself to (Yes, I just said that.) Amanda's DIKW is nice, but too mature. Emma's part sounds too sexy. But they were good together. I hate the beating scene. Matt works with it SO well. Until the actual beating part. His acting does not seem to want to hurt her, then the "you bitch..." part just seems random. ATTWN was rocking. Mirror Blue Night was good, so was I Believe. Pretty normal. TGO might be my favorite song to hear Matt in, because I love how his voice is soft and sounds great. But Eryn messed up twice near the end. With Blake’s Moritz, I never understood why he was shouting “ENOUGH!” but with Gerard’s I totally understood, it really made sense what Moritz was thinking and feeling during Don’t Do Sadness. Emma's speaking was too happy and her singing was too sexy. The suicide was perfection. As was Left Behind. Matt does it best out of all the Melchiors I’ve heard. Which is all of them. So, ha. What I love about Matt's TF is instead of funny it sounds truly exasperated. Like the way he felt during ATK hit the breaking point and he’s just had it. Morgan's Ernst really works great, but Jesse doesn't play off it quite right. But he's better than he was in My Junk. WOYBR was decent. Jesse's singing is better than his acting for sure, although not great. Morgan sounds great. I'm interested in how Morgan would sound with Matt. I'm never a fan of Whispering, but it was fine. Emma, reading the letter from Melchior, sounded really weird. Her voice didn’t match what she was saying. Matt sounds really horrified about Wendla being dead. But I've never heard the "no!" sound truly realistic. But Groff and Jake were worse. Those You’ve Known was pretty good. Gerard was good, Matt was awesome, Eryn was fine. I think her high voice was a little irritating here. In general I think although Eryn looks the right age for the role if not older, her voice sounds so much younger.
Song of Purple Summer was not bad. But it wasn’t great. I guess I just don’t like Emma’s voice.