The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, Part 13 — Page 28

Um, April 06? It was during his first spring tour when he went to Suny Cortland.

That's a cute story.

Whenever I meet people, I'm really nervous. I'm not good at hiding it, either.

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I'm strangely nervous around Adam in a way that's entirely exclusive to him. He never loses his presence even when he's offstage, so I always feel about 2 feet tall.

Not that I handle Raul much better. Remember the shyness crisis after that Company show, Em?

It might not help that he actually IS tall. :P

And I'm not...

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Hee, best purpose.

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It's okay. I am the foot-in-mouth master.

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just a bit!

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That's an interesting question. I think it's harder to ask for pictures. I tend to over think things a lot, too, and I have thought of that. :)

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It's definitely less nerve-wracking if you're in a crowd instead of alone or with very few people.

I remember when I met Tim Howar while stage dooring Rent. The people before us had asked him to a birthday dinner, which he politely declined. I was pretty nervous after that, but ended up with a picture and autograph. He was so nice. I found it a bit ironic that it was my birthday, too. Though I could've never asked him to dinner. :)

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Updated On: 8/21/07 at 09:19 PM

Which I do on a regular basis.

See, I don't know, though -- I think having a lot of people around and being by yourself (or with only a handful of people) both have their very definitive pros and cons. I've been in a lot of different types of situations, and because it's sort of a weird, often artificial, somehow uncharted thing, they all have their ups and downs. There are certain securities you get when you're in a large crowd, but in gaining them, you give up some of the privileges of being in a quieter setting.

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I've never been one-on-one with Adam, though to his credit he does a great job of giving you his full attention in the midst of a crowd (depending on the circumstances, naturally). With Raul, I've been in both situations. Alone with him, I did a better job of saying everything I meant to say, but nonetheless scrambled up my words and probably projected raving lunacy. I wouldn't be opposed to conducting an experiment and, like, interviewing Adam myself to see how I'd behave though.

I've been lucky to have met Adam in a lot of unusual (for a fan, anyway) situations. If I'm intimidated at this point, it's because I'm just naturally prone to getting nervous, not because of anything he does that's "scary" -- on his part, he makes it very easy to feel comfortable with him. And for the most part, I do. Raul... I don't know. He's so on and off that it's really hard to put that kind of marker on him. I think I feel better when there are a lot of people around as some sort of protection against social awkwardness because I'm NOT as easygoing with him as years of practice and sheer luck have allowed me to be with Adam. But when there's a crowd, like I said, you lose the opportunity to really talk to them at length about their work. Of course, last night, I had that opportunity with Adam and my brain went on vacation.

Interviews make me very nervous just because when I'm conducting them myself, I feel as though I'm under this enormous amount of pressure to... perform, in a sense: to be a certain way, ask the right questions, say the right things. When you're the interviewer, you're in control -- to a degree -- and that's an enormous responsibility. I got in over my head with one, and it was really, really stressful -- but also an enormous learning experience. I think Adam would be a fun interview because his demeanor is fairly relaxed, though. It's strange to find myself joking around with him now with such vivid memories of hiding behind my mother lingering in the back of my mind.

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Updated On: 8/22/07 at 10:24 PM

Anthony seems less easy going than Adam does, to me. I'd be nervous with either one, regardless. Interviewing them-I might be a wreck. But it would be interesting.

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