Singer-songwriter-comedian Stephen Lynch did a pretty good job leading a show in The Wedding Singer, but he hasn't made any more trips back to Broadway since. What do you think would be a good show for him to appear in again if he ever chose to return?
Call me crazy, but if Company comes back within the next few years (and who knows at this rate of rapid revivals), he might make an interesting Bobby.
I know he would like to, he talks about wanting to do Rent and he has auditioned several times. But, he took a lot of crap from some of his fans and other comedians for doing broadway. I don't get what the big deal was but I am not sure if he would want to have to go through that again. Updated On: 7/14/10 at 09:39 AM
The reaction to Lynch doing Broadway was that generation's equivalent to the reaction Bob Saget got when he signed on for "Full House" in the early nineties- the darkest, most depraved comic hanging up their barbs in favor of "light family entertainment." Even if Wedding Singer wasn't entirely that sort of thing, it still got that sort of reaction.
The sad thing is that he comes from a theatre background. It's not like he suddenly decided to try it. He was an apprentice at the same theatre I was in Michigan.
He also took on the thankless task of playing a watered-down role that, in the film, had featured a hugely over the top performance by Adam Sandler. No matter what your opinion of Sandler, Lynch's version of the role was limp by comparison (mostly due to bad writing). The show was pointless.
I thought Lynch was by far the best thing about the show, which was fairly mediocre. I found him very honest and affecting on stage and was really impressed. I'd love to have him back.
Sorry but i have to say that i think Lynch had far more heart in that role than 'screen time whore' Sandler had.
I spoke to him when he was here in the UK doing a live show and he was such a nice guy. He spoke about how much he loved the show and would go back to Broadway in a heartbeat if the role was right.
I was thrilled i got to see him and talk to him because i travelled for miles to watch him since i could not make his show in my local area.
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He was delightful in The Wedding Singer and brought much more to the character than what was written. I'd love to see him back on Broadway.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body