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.
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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!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Day 53-1/11/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 1/11/09
Cast: Eryn as Wendla (last), Matt as Melchior (last on Broadway), Jesse as Hanschen
Type: Audio :'(
Call me the genius who forgot to sync her ipod. I have a much better quality version of this, but of course the only one that I had on my ipod was the more muffled version with clicking in the right ear. Very irritating. I think I'll chop of my right ear soon.
Mama Who Bore Me was quite lovely and beautiful. Very unusually, there was applause after it and usually there is not!
The stork scene wasn't a huge stand-out. Decent, but I never really love that scene.
Mama Who Bore Me Reprise was pretty fierce.
All That's Known was totally wonderful, oh that voice is so wonderful to hear.
Bitch of Living was awesome and totally bringing the energy. And it got an amazingly huge applause.
Matt and Gerard work so well together, it's fun to listen to.
Caitlin was not fun to listen to when talking with the girls. Eryn was quite good, probably better than I've found Socha to be a lot.
Jesse sounded almost like he was trying to be like Matt in My Junk. I just wasn't into him so much, his singing fell short and everything.
All of Matt and Eryn's scenes sounded really good and natural, she has this naturally high voice and he has a naturally soft voice, but they are both normal so it works.
This was just a wonderful show, many people who were there say that it's been one of the best performances ever.
Date: 1/11/09
Cast: Eryn as Wendla (last), Matt as Melchior (last on Broadway), Jesse as Hanschen
Type: Audio :'(
Call me the genius who forgot to sync her ipod. I have a much better quality version of this, but of course the only one that I had on my ipod was the more muffled version with clicking in the right ear. Very irritating. I think I'll chop of my right ear soon.
Mama Who Bore Me was quite lovely and beautiful. Very unusually, there was applause after it and usually there is not!
The stork scene wasn't a huge stand-out. Decent, but I never really love that scene.
Mama Who Bore Me Reprise was pretty fierce.
All That's Known was totally wonderful, oh that voice is so wonderful to hear.
Bitch of Living was awesome and totally bringing the energy. And it got an amazingly huge applause.
Matt and Gerard work so well together, it's fun to listen to.
Caitlin was not fun to listen to when talking with the girls. Eryn was quite good, probably better than I've found Socha to be a lot.
Jesse sounded almost like he was trying to be like Matt in My Junk. I just wasn't into him so much, his singing fell short and everything.
All of Matt and Eryn's scenes sounded really good and natural, she has this naturally high voice and he has a naturally soft voice, but they are both normal so it works.
This was just a wonderful show, many people who were there say that it's been one of the best performances ever.
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, December 1, 2009
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.
...
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.
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.
...
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.