What is this like traditional Bangkok-infused rap song?
Anyways, the show's pretty silly. And Adam Pascal gets on my nerves. Other than this song, I've enjoyed most of the music. The orchestrations though are magnificent.
Josh sounds great so far. I have seen him in concert and seen his DVD's and have always ended up a little disappointed each time. This is the best I have heard him perform live.
Rant, Wickud, Rant, Wickud, Rant! We're not gonna pay Rant! 'Cause everythink is Wickud!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
I thought Idina was doing the teen girl version of Heaven Help My Heart.
And it looked like they were doing the Mamma Mia version of One Night in Bangkok.
I do like the guy playing Molokov.
Groban's Anthem was quite good, although you'd want to put him in the studio with David Foster to get the perfect version. As it is, Tommy Körberg's version on the concept album is better.
Is that Actor's Fund version of Chess on CD?
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
Heaven Help...was her best moment so far...and she sang that song in her last round of concerts she just did in March and did it even better.
I think she is miscast but I also think that she's just not the type of performer that is good at picking things up quickly. I think she needs time, coaching and direction before she becomes comfortable. (Wasn't that the whole problem that she and Kristin had during Wicked...Kristin came in ready to go on stage from day 1 and Idina wasn't there for quite a while?) But she should proably know that about herself at this point and shouldn't do a project where she gets so little rehearsal time
Did Josh Groban just avoid singing the word "sh-t?" (The lyric is "Refugee/ total ****/ is how I've always seen us") What, is he a boy scout?
Coach Bob knew it all along: you've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed. You have to keep passing the open windows. (John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire)
Please tell me I'm not only person who noticed Walter and Molokov's deal took place at urinals. That was hilarious, awesome and totally perfect staging for the moment.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never
knowing how
I was concerned for Pity the Child because I didn't think Adam sounded so great at all earlier in the show, and he wasn't singing the score the way I know he can, but I thought he delivered. Not quite as good as his performance in the Actors' Fund version, which is one of my favorites from him, but still damned effective, IMO.
Is anyone else getting interference during the songs? Kerry is lush on "I Know Him So Well". Idina is destroying the song and her dress is hideous. It looks like Tracy Turnblad's roach dress from the Hairspray (the original film) finale.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
I have no problem with any of the leads. Groban never claimed to be an actor so I don't mind his flaws. The music suits him. Adam is fantastic. As for the complaints between Idina and Kerry, I think Idina is concentrating for the audience and Kerry is taking it down for the camera. Both sounds great though.
However, the direction for the show is unimaginative and obvious. Dancing chess pieces? Really?
The costume budget must have been tiny. The Bankok dancers look like they are on spring break in Panama City.
"Truth is rarely pure and never simple."- Oscar Wilde
"If I could only do one thing before I died, it would be to swim with a middle-aged couple from Connecticut."- a dolphin