Adam popped up in the Connecticut Post.
I'll copy/paste the article, just because I can.
It includes a "recent phone interview."
But first, the most interesting part of the article:
I asked Pascal if he has thought about writing a Broadway show of his own.
"I think about it all the time," he said. "And I know that one day I will do it.
"But I don't have the story yet — I don't have the context for the songs," Pascal added. !!
Former 'Rent' star Pascal stops at Shubert When a 25-year-old aspiring rock singer-songwriter named Adam Pascal suddenly attained Broadway stardom in "Rent" a decade ago, he viewed that period as a detour.
After all, "Rent" began as a little off-Broadway show about life on the Lower East Side and no one could have foreseen the Broadway transfer, the Pulitzer Prize win or a movie version 10 years later.
Pascal assumed he would continue to write and perform his own material to audiences who never went to Broadway shows.
But, Pascal went on to star in another New York show by one of his musical heroes — Elton John's "Aida" — and received national attention on TV specials devoted to Broadway stars.
Last fall, Pascal and original "Rent" co-star Anthony Rapp decided to return to the Jonathan Larson show for six weeks and the result could basically be described as "Hysteria on 41st Street," as screaming "Rent-heads" packed the Nederlander Theater and the street outside after every show.
Pascal is now on a national concert tour that brings him to New Haven's Shubert Theatre Saturday night — the performance will be a mixture of his own material and, yes, a few show tunes.
In a recent phone interview, the 37-year-old performer said he has come to terms with the fact that his career should continue to be a mix of musical theater and solo performances like this weekend's concert.
"I did resist anything to do with musical theater it was always, 'my stuff, my stuff.' Now, as I've gotten a little older, I can see that they are not mutually exclusive. I've found a way to combine the two," Pascal said. "It took me a while to see my incredible luck at having any audience at all," he added, chuckling, of his original anti-Broadway bias.
The New Haven concert will include Broadway material for which Pascal has done new arrangements.
"I've rearranged the songs so that they fit musically with my stuff — there's a rock influence, classical jazz, a hodgepodge," the performer said of his takes on Broadway tunes like "Maria" from "West Side Story" and "Maybe This Time" from "Cabaret."
"I think [the Broadway material] helps the audience connect with the original stuff they have a frame of reference so that we can ease them into it," the performer said of the way the very different musical material fits together.
The eclectic nature of the concert reflects Pascal's life these days. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children, but maintains a strong New York presence with regular club and theater workshop appearances.
Pascal has just finished work on an independent film, "American Primitive," and says he would like to establish himself as an actor in non-musical material.
Pascal is also proud of his contribution to an hourlong Nickelodeon movie, "Tale of the Mighty Knights," which debuted Monday night. His song track, "Not an Egg," is included on the Sony BMG CD The Backyardigans: Born to Play set for release next week.
The return to "Rent" by Pascal last fall demonstrated yet again a changing climate on Broadway, with a new younger audience joining fans who had seen the star a decade earlier.
Pascal thinks Broadway stereotypes are being banished by shows such as "Spring Awakening" that are bringing the energy of pop music to theater, along with brand-new audiences of teens and twentysomethings.
"When I was kid, there was nothing dorkier than musical theater," Pascal said, laughing, of his own youth on Long Island.
"I think 'Rent' gave it a bit of a 'cool' factor and now 'Spring Awakening' has enhanced it dramatically," he added of the new era in show music.
Pascal attributes much of the "Rent-head" phenomenon to what was, a decade ago, the revolutionary idea of selling the first row of tickets for $20 on a daily lottery basis.
Kids who couldn't afford Broadway created a street scene every day in front of the Nederlander, giving the show a hip quotient new to musical theater.
"It allowed some of those kids to come back again and again. Who knew that the idea would be so useful and so successful?" the performer said of a lottery system that has been extended to several other Broadway shows with youth appeal. Since singer-songwriter Duncan Sheik has found such great success with his score for "Spring Awakening," I asked Pascal if he has thought about writing a Broadway show of his own.
"I think about it all the time," he said. "And I know that one day I will do it.
"But I don't have the story yet — I don't have the context for the songs," Pascal added.
"Honestly, I've been on an endless search, but the idea hasn't fallen into place." Adam Pascal will appear in concert Saturday at 8 p.m. at New Haven's Shubert Theatre, 247 College St.
Tickets range from $20 to $35 and may be ordered by calling 624-1825. The picture that is on the linked page is the one that takes up more than half of the "Preview" section of the newspaper. It also says 'Rent' party on it...which doesn't really make sense to me, but whatever.
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