Day 59-1/17/10

Show: The Stephen Schwartz Project
Date: 1/16/10
Cast: A lot of people
Type: Live

I look at the picture of all the cast together, and it looks a little bit like Glee. They're all High School. And wearing black costumes that look like nice, partiful, clothes from their closet. But the first song begins (late, BTW) and they use this smoke, and it's kind of odd because it isn't dry ice. It smells like baby powder and it burns my eyes. There was some serious problems with volume in the first song, Spark of Creation. The first thing I thought was "The sound guy should be shot" but then I remembered that he was my ride home. The second song, Day by Day was decent, but sort of boring and forgettable. The next song was sort of just annoying. Then came Lion Tamer, and the girl performing is the daughter of the woman sitting next to me. It was a good song, and she had a good voice but she was really awkward at sensually whipping herself. Cold Enough To Snow was good, but I thought he riffed/vibratoed a little too much, also there was a girl later on who used to much vibrato but I forget who. On The Right Track was cute, but it was a little strange when the girl took one of the actors' little brother and sat him on her chair and......
The Beautiful City/One Short Day mash-up was really cute. The girl in Meadowlark reminded me a lot of Lea Michele; her voice, the way she rounded her mouth, the way she stuck her neck out, the way her eyes closed a little bit. West End Avenue was good. Oh, I also remember Lost in The Wilderness was kind of cool with the lighting, because it was all smoky and white and the guys were just these dark shapes. If only the smoke wasn't killing me. I didn't really like the Popular/True Loves Kiss arrangement. Max was phenomenal in Out There, minus his slight flub. But he has this note which was like "Hooolllly shit." Ain't it Good was fine, but there was this part where they comes out in the aisles clapping and all that, and it wasn't enough to make me clap. Not like how Hair makes you want to clap so bad. When Colors of the Wind began I was like "Don't tell me it's a guy singing" but he was soo good. He had a beautiful voice and was quite emotional and made me tear up quite a bit. And they had a girl wearing a wolf mask also dancing. Solid Silver Platform shoes was cool, they had these bubbles come out which was kind of interesting. The Defying Gravity number was pretty good. I was watching it at first hoping that they would have the big ending, but when they got to it, the girl kind of fell flat. When You Believe was absolutely beautiful and wonderful and the ending number was good.

By the way, there was this guy who kind of looked like James Snyder so after awhile (Like, one song) I started imagining him in Bare, making out with Matt.