Showing posts with label Ryan Link. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ryan Link. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Day 81-2/8/10

Show: Hair
Date: 6/11/09
Cast: Ryan Link as Berger
Type: Audio

Let me begin with an explanation. This was Ryan's first time as Berger. He didn't go on again until September. That doesn't seem like TERRIBLY long, I mean there was a multi-month stretch in which Matt didn't go on for Melchior. But what makes it interesting is that during this 3-month stretch was Will Swenson's vacation. Why didn't Ryan go on during the vacation? Because the producers thought he was a crappy Berger and took the spots he would have done and gave them to Steel Burkhardt.
Now, Here's what I thought about his Berger in a nutshell: Pretty good.
He has a normal voice. That sounds like a stupid thing to point out but he had to force some of what Will does naturally. But you could hear the effort! Will uses a very interesting voice in Stone Age and you could tell that Ryan was trying to pull it off. I did not totally hate his Berger at all.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Day 74-2/1/10

Show: Hair
Date: 9/2/09
Cast: Paris Remillard* (Claude), Will Swenson (Berger), Caissie Levy (Sheila), Ryan Link* (Woof), Darius Nichols (Hud), Sasha Allen (Dionne), Kacie Sheik (Jeanie), Kaitlin Kiyan* (Crissy/Black Boys Trio), Andrew Kober (Father/Margaret Mead), Megan Lawrence (Mother), Matt DeAngelis* (Hubert/Principal/Tribe), Jackie Burns (Black Boys Trio/Tribe), Chasten Harmon* (Tribe), Hannah Shankman* (Black Boys Trio/Tribe), Nicole Lewis (White Boys Trio/Tribe), Krystal Joy Brown (White Boys Trio/Tribe), Ato Blankson-Wood (Tribe), Steel Burkhardt (What a Piece Solo*/Tribe), Allison Guinn (Tribe), Michael James Scott* (Tribe), John Moauro (Tribe), Brandon Pearson (Tribe), Jay A. Johnson* (Tribe), Maya Sharpe (Tribe), Tommar Wilson (Tribe)
Type: Audio

I'm really loving Paris's Claude. His speaking voice is really really nice. Also Ryan's Woof was great. There wasn't anything super special he seemed to do, and he has a normal voice but he made it all work really nicely. I know that Katie's Crissy isn't that popular because Frank Mills just doesn't sound right for her voice, but I thought it was really pretty. At some parts it was a little weaker and you could hear the strain, but a lot sounded pretty, like a lullaby.
Also I kind of wonder who said "Tonto say white man die" because someone told me that Jay once did it kind of like a robot, and it sounded a little robotic here.