Day 29-12/18/09

Show: Bye Bye Birdie
Date: 12/9/09
Type: Audio :(
Cast: Daniel Quadrino as Hugo Peabody, Robi Hager as Mitch Miller.

John: Blech, just not fun to listen to.
Gina: UGH. Almost unbearable.
Bill: Too much, although funny at times.
Jayne: Same as Bill.
Allie: Good, although a little pitchy.
Nolan: Decent in Honestly Sincere, pretty flat otherwise.
Danny: Welll.....

As you may know if you saw on Twitter, I LOVED Danny’s Hugo. And I did not just say that because I wanted him to tweet me back. I didn’t even tag him in that tweet, I don’t how he found out! But I was waiting for the bus this morning and saw that and I got really happy. I can’t even get Matt Doyle to tweet me when I do tag him. Anyyway, definitely loved Danny’s Hugo (What, you already knew that?) Would I go as far to say it’s better than Matt? No, I’ll explain.

Danny/Hugo was a kid. He has a very sweet, kind of higher, voice. He seems helpless at times and pathetic at other times. He’s afraid of Conrad Birdie because he knows that he doesn’t stand a chance. He gets drunk because he’s seen it in the movies and when the parents find him drunk it’s hardly something to worry about because he seems so harmless. He’s Kim’s equal if not subordinate.

Matt/Hugo was more mature. He’s sweet, but with a smooth refined singing voice along with more nervous speaking. He’s kind of melodramatic while still lovesick. The hatred of Conrad is more in the nature of “How Dare He!” than “Oh no!” His drunkness is more desperate, while still helpless. He’s ever-so-slightly above Kim, when he asks her not to kiss Conrad he’s trying (and failing) to take charge. Danny’s is more of a plead.

Don’t kill me, but I’m going to compare this to Twilight. Danny is like Jacob, Matt is like Edward. Danny/Jacob/Hugo is younger, sweeter, more desperate. Matt/Edward/Hugo is older, more mature, and a little bit protective. Danny/Jacob/Hugo may not have been cool until he started dating Kim, but Matt/Edward/Hugo was already popular. And they both clearly love her.
How can you possibly pick one over the other? They’re both awesome and quite different!

POST FACT EDIT: I had written this during a biology test at school. Later I looked and found that Danny was not responding to my comment about his Hugo, but rather my comment about how he's always tweeting my friends. Still love him.

Day 26-12/15/09

Show: Spring Awakening
Date: 7/18/07
Type: Audio :(
Cast: Phoebe as Wendla, Krysta as Anna, Robi as Hanschen.

I'm only really going to talk about Phoebe's Wendla here, although I will spend long enough saying that Krysta and Robi were fantastic in their parts.
Phoebe's Wendla was truly perfection and it surprises me that I hadn't realized how good it was until now. The thing she did well was combining precision and finesse with youth. I feel with a lot of other Wendla's you either get a girl who seems really young and somewhat juvenile (Alexandra) or you get a girl who is not at all a girl and you will never believe she is one (Lea) but Phoebe sang everything beautifully, but still sounded like a young girl. Her dialogues were wonderful as well, hinting at some of the sweetness she plays Anna with.
Definitely enjoyed, just wished that there were Phoebe Wendla audios with better quality.