Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 2/23/08
Cast: Matt Doyle as Melchior, Alexandra Socha as Wendla, Jesse Swenson as Hanschen
Type: Audio
Like I said in the last post, Socha's Wendla and Matt's Melchior are a decent fit. Jesse's Hanschen isn't perfect...it's a little off vocally and a little off in acting. But overall it's a great show.
Showing posts with label Alexandra Socha. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alexandra Socha. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Day 95-2/22/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 2/22/08
Cast: Jesse Swenson as Melchior, Alexandra Socha as Wendla
Type: Audio
Jesse is decent. And Socha was pretty much *alright* I've been through this before...it's a little of a mismatch with them. He makes a fine Melchior but there's never been a Wendla to match him. He needs to be with a Wendla who sounds more mature. Not someone who has a high pitched voice. And maybe she would be better with a Melchior that sounds younger than he should me. I guess Matt kind of works for this analysis!
Date: 2/22/08
Cast: Jesse Swenson as Melchior, Alexandra Socha as Wendla
Type: Audio
Jesse is decent. And Socha was pretty much *alright* I've been through this before...it's a little of a mismatch with them. He makes a fine Melchior but there's never been a Wendla to match him. He needs to be with a Wendla who sounds more mature. Not someone who has a high pitched voice. And maybe she would be better with a Melchior that sounds younger than he should me. I guess Matt kind of works for this analysis!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Day 60-1/18/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 1/18/09
Cast: Hunter Parrish, Alexandra Socha, Gerard Canonico, Matt Doyle, Blake Daniel, Emma Hunton, Gabe Violett, Andrew Durand, Amanda Castanos, Caitlin Kinnunen, Emily Kinney, Morgan Karr, Alice Lee, Eryn Murman, Zach-Reiner Harris
Type: Audio
Oh gosh. This was an emotional rollercoaster. First, everyone was great, especially Alexandra.
There was so much excitement in the audience and you could tell that they were totally into it. And I was totally wrapped up in it. And it was so emotional. I can't really say much more about other than a lot of the great parts made me cry. Especially Song of Purple Summer. But let me explain to you my relationship with the show that makes it so emotional. In July, Rachel saw Spring Awakening (it may have been in June...yeah, it was June) and in July I got hooked on the OBCR and the pictures that I found on Google. By August I was becoming a youtube whore. But what was it, October? That closing was announced. I told my mom, who said she'd talk to my dad about letting me go, who said no.
It was too early. I know for some of you out there, you saw it. You met the cast. You got autographs, you did it all. But I did none of it. I was planning on doing all of that in December...of 2010. I thought the show would have lasted that long, I mean it was so popular. You have no idea how envious I am when people talk about all the people they've seen and when I read the reviews of how magical Touch Me, it kills me. And while I'm at it, do you know how mad I get when people complain about an understudy that they saw or something?
My point is that although I'm hiding it, today has been really rough on me. And last year was even worse.
Watch this slideshow I made from the closing pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jWl8_OZAM
Date: 1/18/09
Cast: Hunter Parrish, Alexandra Socha, Gerard Canonico, Matt Doyle, Blake Daniel, Emma Hunton, Gabe Violett, Andrew Durand, Amanda Castanos, Caitlin Kinnunen, Emily Kinney, Morgan Karr, Alice Lee, Eryn Murman, Zach-Reiner Harris
Type: Audio
Oh gosh. This was an emotional rollercoaster. First, everyone was great, especially Alexandra.
There was so much excitement in the audience and you could tell that they were totally into it. And I was totally wrapped up in it. And it was so emotional. I can't really say much more about other than a lot of the great parts made me cry. Especially Song of Purple Summer. But let me explain to you my relationship with the show that makes it so emotional. In July, Rachel saw Spring Awakening (it may have been in June...yeah, it was June) and in July I got hooked on the OBCR and the pictures that I found on Google. By August I was becoming a youtube whore. But what was it, October? That closing was announced. I told my mom, who said she'd talk to my dad about letting me go, who said no.
It was too early. I know for some of you out there, you saw it. You met the cast. You got autographs, you did it all. But I did none of it. I was planning on doing all of that in December...of 2010. I thought the show would have lasted that long, I mean it was so popular. You have no idea how envious I am when people talk about all the people they've seen and when I read the reviews of how magical Touch Me, it kills me. And while I'm at it, do you know how mad I get when people complain about an understudy that they saw or something?
My point is that although I'm hiding it, today has been really rough on me. And last year was even worse.
Watch this slideshow I made from the closing pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jWl8_OZAM
Monday, January 11, 2010
Day 51-1/9/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Cast: Morgan as Georg, Jesse as Melchior, Rest of the closing cast
Date: 11/20/08
Type: Audio
Socha still sounds like she wants to be young, but MWBM was pretty good. The reprise was not all that strong, but the voices do fit well. Jesse was better than Hunter in many ways, but that’s not exactly hard. All That’s Known was quite good. It was a bummer that BOL hadn’t been recorded, I would have liked to hear the understudies and Matt. I’d say Caitlin wasn’t as bad as she has been at times. My Junk was fairly cute, the girls mesh well vocally. Matt’s Hanschen is well, wonderful and also realistic. I kind of could picture a guy being like that. Morgan’s Georg worked alright, sounding kind of nervous and eager. Definitely liked Jesse and Gerard working together. Morgan’s Touch Me was…beautiful beyond belief. I just wish he had been even more powerful in his second solo, other than that it sounded fantastic and gorgeous. When Socha is talking to Jesse, she just sounds way to young and he sounds more natural than she does. I didn’t like her in WOYB so much, he was fine again. Amanda’s DIKW was haunting, I really do like her voice, she sounds very comfortable with the singing and she really seems effortless. Emma was too sexy yet again, but the duet was perfect they both sounded very equal. My problem in the Beating scene is that Jesse just sounds too angry in general and the whole beating is just ugh overkill. And jeez, Socha just sounded unnatural and high and “young.” For once I am actually remembering Gabe! I liked his WOYBR, I like it more than his Touch Me solo, it really works when his voice is soft like that. Gerard owns And Then There Were None, he just brings all of his energy and emotion to it, and it’s wonderful to hear. Jesse in Mirror Blue Night is fairly good, his voice is kind of deeper. I sort of hates the hayloft today. Socha’s voice is irritating the living crap out of me, she’s adapting to Jesse’s Melchior all that well. He has a deepish matureish voice, and she sounds all high pitched and it’s soo hard to listen to. The Guilty Ones was good, Socha sounded pretty good here. I have no idea why, but in this audio there is Guilty Ones with Hunter as Melchior. I think its because TGO wasn’t recorded from that night, so a different performance was subbed in. Gerard was great in Don’t Do Sadness, but I feel like he should just own it a little bit more. I mean really, just EXPLODE. He sort of only explodes. Not in big capital letters. Emma sounds just too sexy in Blue Wind, but that doesn’t mean her voice isn’t totally beautiful. Left Behind sounded like a bit of a struggle for Jesse, just like it was too high. TF was missing a little something from Jesse. Oh, but Matt was wonderful. That note. I think Jesse could have put just some more passion into it. WOYBR was 50000 types of amazing. Oh Matt, so good at seducing. No wonder he got himself such a cute boyfriend. Must have been easy ;) Whispering wasn’t as bad as it has been, but not great. TYK and SOPS were both pretty good.
Cast: Morgan as Georg, Jesse as Melchior, Rest of the closing cast
Date: 11/20/08
Type: Audio
Socha still sounds like she wants to be young, but MWBM was pretty good. The reprise was not all that strong, but the voices do fit well. Jesse was better than Hunter in many ways, but that’s not exactly hard. All That’s Known was quite good. It was a bummer that BOL hadn’t been recorded, I would have liked to hear the understudies and Matt. I’d say Caitlin wasn’t as bad as she has been at times. My Junk was fairly cute, the girls mesh well vocally. Matt’s Hanschen is well, wonderful and also realistic. I kind of could picture a guy being like that. Morgan’s Georg worked alright, sounding kind of nervous and eager. Definitely liked Jesse and Gerard working together. Morgan’s Touch Me was…beautiful beyond belief. I just wish he had been even more powerful in his second solo, other than that it sounded fantastic and gorgeous. When Socha is talking to Jesse, she just sounds way to young and he sounds more natural than she does. I didn’t like her in WOYB so much, he was fine again. Amanda’s DIKW was haunting, I really do like her voice, she sounds very comfortable with the singing and she really seems effortless. Emma was too sexy yet again, but the duet was perfect they both sounded very equal. My problem in the Beating scene is that Jesse just sounds too angry in general and the whole beating is just ugh overkill. And jeez, Socha just sounded unnatural and high and “young.” For once I am actually remembering Gabe! I liked his WOYBR, I like it more than his Touch Me solo, it really works when his voice is soft like that. Gerard owns And Then There Were None, he just brings all of his energy and emotion to it, and it’s wonderful to hear. Jesse in Mirror Blue Night is fairly good, his voice is kind of deeper. I sort of hates the hayloft today. Socha’s voice is irritating the living crap out of me, she’s adapting to Jesse’s Melchior all that well. He has a deepish matureish voice, and she sounds all high pitched and it’s soo hard to listen to. The Guilty Ones was good, Socha sounded pretty good here. I have no idea why, but in this audio there is Guilty Ones with Hunter as Melchior. I think its because TGO wasn’t recorded from that night, so a different performance was subbed in. Gerard was great in Don’t Do Sadness, but I feel like he should just own it a little bit more. I mean really, just EXPLODE. He sort of only explodes. Not in big capital letters. Emma sounds just too sexy in Blue Wind, but that doesn’t mean her voice isn’t totally beautiful. Left Behind sounded like a bit of a struggle for Jesse, just like it was too high. TF was missing a little something from Jesse. Oh, but Matt was wonderful. That note. I think Jesse could have put just some more passion into it. WOYBR was 50000 types of amazing. Oh Matt, so good at seducing. No wonder he got himself such a cute boyfriend. Must have been easy ;) Whispering wasn’t as bad as it has been, but not great. TYK and SOPS were both pretty good.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Day 47-1/5/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 10/7/08
Type: Audio
Cast: Hunter Parrish, Alexandra Socha, Morgan Karr, Emma Hunton, Caitlin Kinnunen, Amanda Castanos, Andrew Durand, Gabe Violett, Blake Daniel, Matt Doyle.
Alexandra: Her biggest problem for me is making her voice higher to sound younger. It doesn't work and isn't necessary. I was most impressed in The Guilty Ones, she sounded truly pretty. Everything else was pretty much the same.
Hunter: I just don't like him. His voice is all wrong for me.
Morgan: Such a beautiful voice, but every time he spoke real lines all I thought was "why is Ernst having Moritz's lines?" Just because he is a great singer doesn't mean he should cover the role.
Emma: For once she didn't sound "sexy" in Dark I Know Well. Instead she sounded haunting and lovely. But she went back to sounding sexy in Blue Wind. She was pretty good in Song of Purple Summer.
Caitlin: In the radical scene she is pretty much awful. It's as if she's trying to say all of her lines as loud and fast as she can. But in My Junk itself she's somewhat softer and smoother. She was a little bit better in the secret scene as well.
Amanda: My favorite part is when she says "For god's sake, papa beat me enough as it is?" she sounds so urgent and worried that she accidentally blurted it out. Everything else was pretty
good.
Gabe: I just never notice him.
Blake: He's great, as usual.
Matt: All kinds of fantastic. He really just sounded so on. Word of Your Body Reprise was absolutely fantastic, I was starting to feel seduced. His line in Totally Fucked was absolutely incredible and he was great in My Junk. There were a few other moments where I thought I could hear him; Mirror-Blue Night, I Believe, possibly Song of Purple Summer.
This was recorded in the front row, so Song of Purple Summer sounded unbelievably cool. You could hear a bunch of beautiful harmonies as they moved around.
Date: 10/7/08
Type: Audio
Cast: Hunter Parrish, Alexandra Socha, Morgan Karr, Emma Hunton, Caitlin Kinnunen, Amanda Castanos, Andrew Durand, Gabe Violett, Blake Daniel, Matt Doyle.
Alexandra: Her biggest problem for me is making her voice higher to sound younger. It doesn't work and isn't necessary. I was most impressed in The Guilty Ones, she sounded truly pretty. Everything else was pretty much the same.
Hunter: I just don't like him. His voice is all wrong for me.
Morgan: Such a beautiful voice, but every time he spoke real lines all I thought was "why is Ernst having Moritz's lines?" Just because he is a great singer doesn't mean he should cover the role.
Emma: For once she didn't sound "sexy" in Dark I Know Well. Instead she sounded haunting and lovely. But she went back to sounding sexy in Blue Wind. She was pretty good in Song of Purple Summer.
Caitlin: In the radical scene she is pretty much awful. It's as if she's trying to say all of her lines as loud and fast as she can. But in My Junk itself she's somewhat softer and smoother. She was a little bit better in the secret scene as well.
Amanda: My favorite part is when she says "For god's sake, papa beat me enough as it is?" she sounds so urgent and worried that she accidentally blurted it out. Everything else was pretty
good.
Gabe: I just never notice him.
Blake: He's great, as usual.
Matt: All kinds of fantastic. He really just sounded so on. Word of Your Body Reprise was absolutely fantastic, I was starting to feel seduced. His line in Totally Fucked was absolutely incredible and he was great in My Junk. There were a few other moments where I thought I could hear him; Mirror-Blue Night, I Believe, possibly Song of Purple Summer.
This was recorded in the front row, so Song of Purple Summer sounded unbelievably cool. You could hear a bunch of beautiful harmonies as they moved around.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Day 27-12/16/09
Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 8/12/08 (Hunter's Second)
Type: Audio
Cast: Hunter Parrish (Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla), Gerard Canonico (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Andrew Durand (Georg), Amanda Castanos (Martha), Matt Doyle (Hanschen), Blake Daniel (Ernst), Gabe Violett (Otto), Emily Kinney (Anna), Caitlin Kinnunen (Thea), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Glenn Fleshler (Adult Men)
This helps alot: http://forum.theguiltyones.org/index.php/topic,10240.0.html
Hunter: I was kind of meh. I mean, he was better vocally than he was later. But I could just hear how old he was, and he didn't mesh with Alexandra all that well. For once I could hear Melchior in WOYB, but it was kind of because they weren't meshing.
Alexandra: I didn't like her here, usually I like her more than this. She sounded annoyingly young a lot. I'd say more so in speaking than in singing, but it was like she was raising her voice to sound smaller and it sounded irritating.
Gerard: Very wonderfully spazzy and youthful and it really worked.
Andrew: Touch Me was quite good, definitely good riffs. Although I will say that it was either too much or not passionate enough, there was something missing and it wasn't the notes or the riffs in general.
Gabe: When he starts his Touch Me solo I feel like he has this accent, and it's so irritating. But in general he's fine.
Matt: I still believe that he alters his voice when he's speaking. In My Junk, he was talking one way and when he sang it sounded like a completely different person. But I have a rationale that actually makes the voice altering a good idea, so I'm getting over it.
Blake: Good. Cute.
Emily: She says her lines so cutely. It takes getting used to, but really it's fine.
Caitlin: I feel like if you're constipated you just shouldn't go on.
Amanda: Good, Powerful.
Emma: Beautiful, although I still think it sounds too sexy.
Adults: Not bad. Both are kind of over the top, but at least they BOTH are.
Date: 8/12/08 (Hunter's Second)
Type: Audio
Cast: Hunter Parrish (Melchior), Alexandra Socha (Wendla), Gerard Canonico (Moritz), Emma Hunton (Ilse), Andrew Durand (Georg), Amanda Castanos (Martha), Matt Doyle (Hanschen), Blake Daniel (Ernst), Gabe Violett (Otto), Emily Kinney (Anna), Caitlin Kinnunen (Thea), Christine Estabrook (Adult Women), Glenn Fleshler (Adult Men)
This helps alot: http://forum.theguiltyones.org/index.php/topic,10240.0.html
Hunter: I was kind of meh. I mean, he was better vocally than he was later. But I could just hear how old he was, and he didn't mesh with Alexandra all that well. For once I could hear Melchior in WOYB, but it was kind of because they weren't meshing.
Alexandra: I didn't like her here, usually I like her more than this. She sounded annoyingly young a lot. I'd say more so in speaking than in singing, but it was like she was raising her voice to sound smaller and it sounded irritating.
Gerard: Very wonderfully spazzy and youthful and it really worked.
Andrew: Touch Me was quite good, definitely good riffs. Although I will say that it was either too much or not passionate enough, there was something missing and it wasn't the notes or the riffs in general.
Gabe: When he starts his Touch Me solo I feel like he has this accent, and it's so irritating. But in general he's fine.
Matt: I still believe that he alters his voice when he's speaking. In My Junk, he was talking one way and when he sang it sounded like a completely different person. But I have a rationale that actually makes the voice altering a good idea, so I'm getting over it.
Blake: Good. Cute.
Emily: She says her lines so cutely. It takes getting used to, but really it's fine.
Caitlin: I feel like if you're constipated you just shouldn't go on.
Amanda: Good, Powerful.
Emma: Beautiful, although I still think it sounds too sexy.
Adults: Not bad. Both are kind of over the top, but at least they BOTH are.