Show: Bare
Date: 2000
Cast: Not sure. It's on wikipedia.
Type: Sounboard
This was alright to listen to, and really fine. But I hate not knowing the right lyrics, it’s very disappointing. Also, I gotta say that I like the vocals on the CD a hell of a lot more. Oh, also it drives me insane that I don’t understand all of the catholic stuff…what’s the deal with Mary? I don’t get it.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Day 49-1/7/10
Show: Hair
Date: 10/27/09
Cast: Nicole Lewis as Sheila, Paris Remillard as Claude.
Type: Audio :(
This is quite odd and disorderly:
Rachel's mom's improving, but her buddha is very weird. I just don't like it. 3500 was amazing and powerful, I got such a rush from it and had to play it again.
I really enjoyed Paris's Claude. More than I was expecting to. He has just a wonderful, smooth voice. And what a wonderful singer.
Nicole's Sheila was quite good. Characteristically, it was spot on. But singing it wasn't quite as good as Caissie's. I didn't like that is she sometimes sounded like she was saying "Easy tibby..."
Hair was great and energetic.
Still love everyone that I did last time, finding myself liking Krystal as Abe even more after hearing her Dionne.
Paris was wonderfully powerful in FF/LTSSI, as was Nicole.
Date: 10/27/09
Cast: Nicole Lewis as Sheila, Paris Remillard as Claude.
Type: Audio :(
This is quite odd and disorderly:
Rachel's mom's improving, but her buddha is very weird. I just don't like it. 3500 was amazing and powerful, I got such a rush from it and had to play it again.
I really enjoyed Paris's Claude. More than I was expecting to. He has just a wonderful, smooth voice. And what a wonderful singer.
Nicole's Sheila was quite good. Characteristically, it was spot on. But singing it wasn't quite as good as Caissie's. I didn't like that is she sometimes sounded like she was saying "Easy tibby..."
Hair was great and energetic.
Still love everyone that I did last time, finding myself liking Krystal as Abe even more after hearing her Dionne.
Paris was wonderfully powerful in FF/LTSSI, as was Nicole.
Day 48-1/6/10
Show: Next to Normal
Date: 1/10/09
Cast: J. Robert Spencer, Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano, Louis Hobson, Adam Chanler-Berat, Tim Young as Gabe.
Type: Audio
So when I originally flipped to this, I assumed that it was the full OBC including Aaron. Every time Gabe spoke or sang I was bewildered because it didn't sound like Aaron, I thought it sounded more like Kyle if anything but Kyle wasn't in the cast. This irritated me pretty much until the very end when I finally checked the cast list.
But everything else was wonderful. It's been awhile since I listened to a Next to Normal audio and this was really great. I didn't fall asleep on the bus while listening!
Don't know what else to say
Date: 1/10/09
Cast: J. Robert Spencer, Alice Ripley, Jennifer Damiano, Louis Hobson, Adam Chanler-Berat, Tim Young as Gabe.
Type: Audio
So when I originally flipped to this, I assumed that it was the full OBC including Aaron. Every time Gabe spoke or sang I was bewildered because it didn't sound like Aaron, I thought it sounded more like Kyle if anything but Kyle wasn't in the cast. This irritated me pretty much until the very end when I finally checked the cast list.
But everything else was wonderful. It's been awhile since I listened to a Next to Normal audio and this was really great. I didn't fall asleep on the bus while listening!
Don't know what else to say
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.
Day 46-1/4/10
Show: Spring Awakening
Cast: Christy Altomare, Perry Sherman, Blake Bashoff, Steffi D, Andy Mientus, Ben Moss, Matt Shingledecker, Anthony Lee Medina, Sarah Hunt, Krystina Alabado, Gabby Garza.
Christy: My favorite song was TGO, everything else was typical and therefore I wasn't in love with her. Hated her in MWBMR.
Sarah: I hate that in the radical scene, her voice quivers. I also hate that she says goes high when she says "dark" in "there's a part I can't tell about the dark I know well" in DIKW.
Perry: Very good! Love his singing and his acting his great. He had an unfortunate crack in MBN. he was awesome and then it happened.
Krystina: Quite good. I just think she tried to speak as if she were younger by making her voice higher. It just didn't sound natural
Ben: I hate how annoyingly high his voice is
Andy: Sounds like a girl a lot.
Anthony: Fine. Hardly noticed
Matt: Same as Anthony, but was quite weak in TOUCH ME.
Blake: Disklike as usual.
Steffi: Same as Blake
A problem I have with this cast is sometimes their voices just don't mesh. Mama Who Bore Me Reprise doesn't quite harmonize as it should and even when they speak it sounds like they're all saying their own lines, there's not enough playing off of each other. I noticed this in the scene where Martha confesses her secret. Thea says "My uncle Klaus says..." Martha responds "That must be" but the way Krystina and Sarah said the lines, they sounded disconnected. The Guilty Ones was one of my favorites today, Perry and Christy sounded really good together. Also in Word of Your Body Reprise, this must have been recorded onstage because it picks up really pretty harmonies from someone (I think it might be Krystina, but I'm not 100% sure) and it picks up harmonies every now and then in My Junk.
Cast: Christy Altomare, Perry Sherman, Blake Bashoff, Steffi D, Andy Mientus, Ben Moss, Matt Shingledecker, Anthony Lee Medina, Sarah Hunt, Krystina Alabado, Gabby Garza.
Christy: My favorite song was TGO, everything else was typical and therefore I wasn't in love with her. Hated her in MWBMR.
Sarah: I hate that in the radical scene, her voice quivers. I also hate that she says goes high when she says "dark" in "there's a part I can't tell about the dark I know well" in DIKW.
Perry: Very good! Love his singing and his acting his great. He had an unfortunate crack in MBN. he was awesome and then it happened.
Krystina: Quite good. I just think she tried to speak as if she were younger by making her voice higher. It just didn't sound natural
Ben: I hate how annoyingly high his voice is
Andy: Sounds like a girl a lot.
Anthony: Fine. Hardly noticed
Matt: Same as Anthony, but was quite weak in TOUCH ME.
Blake: Disklike as usual.
Steffi: Same as Blake
A problem I have with this cast is sometimes their voices just don't mesh. Mama Who Bore Me Reprise doesn't quite harmonize as it should and even when they speak it sounds like they're all saying their own lines, there's not enough playing off of each other. I noticed this in the scene where Martha confesses her secret. Thea says "My uncle Klaus says..." Martha responds "That must be" but the way Krystina and Sarah said the lines, they sounded disconnected. The Guilty Ones was one of my favorites today, Perry and Christy sounded really good together. Also in Word of Your Body Reprise, this must have been recorded onstage because it picks up really pretty harmonies from someone (I think it might be Krystina, but I'm not 100% sure) and it picks up harmonies every now and then in My Junk.
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Day 45-1/3/10
Show: Dog Sees God
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Karen DiConcetto (u/s), America Ferrera, Ari Graynor, Logan Marshall-Green, Keith Nobbs, Ian Somerhalder, Eddie Kaye Thomas.
Date: 1/18/06
Type: Video
This is lame, but I couldn't get into it. I just couldn't. maybe I'll give it another shot sometime but for now I'm giving up.
Cast: Eliza Dushku, Karen DiConcetto (u/s), America Ferrera, Ari Graynor, Logan Marshall-Green, Keith Nobbs, Ian Somerhalder, Eddie Kaye Thomas.
Date: 1/18/06
Type: Video
This is lame, but I couldn't get into it. I just couldn't. maybe I'll give it another shot sometime but for now I'm giving up.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Day 44-1/2/10
Show: [title of show]
Date: 9/5/08
Cast: Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff, Susan Blackwell
Type: Audio
This is not typically my favorite way of first hearing a show. I usually prefer listening to the OBCR or seeing a good quality video to start with. But I guess an audio would work in a pinch.
I liked this show, it was easy to understand and follow and some of the musical numbers were cute. I do have to say I think it is a little overrated. Now that it's over I can't exactly say I'm excited for my next listen or anything.
It was cleverly done of course, but the emotion near the end seemed forced. From the fight that they had till the end was a little, well, not interesting to me. Maybe I was getting tired or bored, but I thought it was both tiring and boring.
I have Two Nobodies In New York stuck in my head right now.
Date: 9/5/08
Cast: Hunter Bell, Jeff Bowen, Heidi Blickenstaff, Susan Blackwell
Type: Audio
This is not typically my favorite way of first hearing a show. I usually prefer listening to the OBCR or seeing a good quality video to start with. But I guess an audio would work in a pinch.
I liked this show, it was easy to understand and follow and some of the musical numbers were cute. I do have to say I think it is a little overrated. Now that it's over I can't exactly say I'm excited for my next listen or anything.
It was cleverly done of course, but the emotion near the end seemed forced. From the fight that they had till the end was a little, well, not interesting to me. Maybe I was getting tired or bored, but I thought it was both tiring and boring.
I have Two Nobodies In New York stuck in my head right now.
New Years Resolution
So usually I'm not a person who makes New Years Resolutions, but this year I made a small one. Well, maybe it's not small, but it's manageable. My new years resolution is to incorporate more shows into my repertoire.
See it may seem like I'm into a ton of shows, but really I don't think it's many. I really like Hair, Spring Awakening, and Next to Normal. There are shows that I'm into; Legally Blonde, Wicked, Bye Bye Birdie, Avenue Q, Rock of Ages, Addams Family, American Idiot (kind of), and then that's sort of it.
Vivian pointed out that when I like a show I get to the point that I know pretty much everything about it. But I still think that I need more shows. Especially with THE CHALLENGE I want to have more shows. One thing is that it's not all that fun listening to Spring Awakening for multiple days in a row.
All the more so, I look at my trading list every now and then. And it's like How can I have so many shows and have never listened to most of them? Well, I want to make that question pretty much go away.
I'd really love suggestions of good shows that I should give a look or listen to!
See it may seem like I'm into a ton of shows, but really I don't think it's many. I really like Hair, Spring Awakening, and Next to Normal. There are shows that I'm into; Legally Blonde, Wicked, Bye Bye Birdie, Avenue Q, Rock of Ages, Addams Family, American Idiot (kind of), and then that's sort of it.
Vivian pointed out that when I like a show I get to the point that I know pretty much everything about it. But I still think that I need more shows. Especially with THE CHALLENGE I want to have more shows. One thing is that it's not all that fun listening to Spring Awakening for multiple days in a row.
All the more so, I look at my trading list every now and then. And it's like How can I have so many shows and have never listened to most of them? Well, I want to make that question pretty much go away.
I'd really love suggestions of good shows that I should give a look or listen to!
Friday, January 1, 2010
Day 43-1/1/10
Show: Next to Normal
Date: 8/15/09
Type: Live
Cast: Alice Ripley. J Robert Spencer, Jenn Damiano, Kyle Dean Massey, Adam Chanler-Berat, Louis Hobson
This was the show that I saw. Live. Second row. Awesomeness and all that. Well, I'm not actually going to write up the review that I had made because it doesn't make much sense and discusses stagedooring more than the show itself.
Here are some highlights of the review (and the night):
-Alice is in character every second and almost always steals your attention.
-Bobby Spencer uses a lot of vibrato but if you ignore it his performance blows you away. So much emotion and really just makes you cry.
-Kyle is not Aaron (which you later find is a good thing) he holds his own and is super good looking. It's interesting to watch him "watch" the other characters. And he's very expressive.
-Jenn looks absolutely gorgeous.
-Adam's adorable and I get the hype about him.
-Louis was quite the rockstar.
-With the exception of Kyle is sounded so much like the CD.
-I've Been made me cry
-I also cried many times in Act 2 (How Could I Ever Forget, I Am The One Reprise)
The rest of my review is just plain stupid.
Date: 8/15/09
Type: Live
Cast: Alice Ripley. J Robert Spencer, Jenn Damiano, Kyle Dean Massey, Adam Chanler-Berat, Louis Hobson
This was the show that I saw. Live. Second row. Awesomeness and all that. Well, I'm not actually going to write up the review that I had made because it doesn't make much sense and discusses stagedooring more than the show itself.
Here are some highlights of the review (and the night):
-Alice is in character every second and almost always steals your attention.
-Bobby Spencer uses a lot of vibrato but if you ignore it his performance blows you away. So much emotion and really just makes you cry.
-Kyle is not Aaron (which you later find is a good thing) he holds his own and is super good looking. It's interesting to watch him "watch" the other characters. And he's very expressive.
-Jenn looks absolutely gorgeous.
-Adam's adorable and I get the hype about him.
-Louis was quite the rockstar.
-With the exception of Kyle is sounded so much like the CD.
-I've Been made me cry
-I also cried many times in Act 2 (How Could I Ever Forget, I Am The One Reprise)
The rest of my review is just plain stupid.