The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part eleven- Page 34

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:52pm

Everyone's avatars have dark backgrounds and moody lighting. What a noir thread this has become.

ETA: Emcee, I hope we hear how it goes, but you know master classes don't usually deal in technique, just interpretation and presentation. It's supposed to be a bridge for a student between a classroom/amateur situation to a professional one, i.e. how to connect with an audience and put a song across. I think Adam knows plenty about doing that. Whether he can help others do it is another question. Updated On: 9/16/06 at 05:52 PM

Posted: 9/16/06 at 5:55pm

Jyn, I would suggest calling the student activities department at the university. I've neard literally nothing about the show; I'm kind of wondering if one is even going to take place.

Em, I had the same reaction. I'm still curious as to what he's going to say, though. Maybe he'll turn it more into a Q&A session.

This HAS to be the most poorly-written biography ever. I think it's from Wikipedia:

http://www.metropolitanroom.com/performance.php?eid=87
Updated On: 9/16/06 at 05:55 PM

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:00pm

Also, master classes are not usually lectures by the visiting professional, but consist of performances by students about which he then makes suggestions.
Updated On: 9/16/06 at 06:00 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:03pm

God, his PR really needs to get with the program and be like, professional.

I like this picture of Raul.

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:03pm

I like that picture of Raul too.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:04pm

My favorite little rectangle!

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:09pm

Aww Raul looks so cute in your avatar Em!

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:11pm

Updated On: 8/26/07 at 06:11 PM

[Mandi Moo]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:14pm

Little rectangle? Have I missed something? Heh.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:18pm

He's so teeny. But it's okay, good things come in er, small packages.

Mandi, Fantab says he's rectangular. :)

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 6:59pm

My avatar is happy and colorful, so I'm ruining the trend.

Em, I thought the same thing about the master class. Considering he's never taken an acting class a day in his life and has had 3 starring roles on Broadway, he's also probably not good for the school, since it basically tells these students that they're wasting their money paying tuition for these classes and a huge part of success in acting is pure luck.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:01pm

Rauuul is happy. Just not colorful.

[Fantabulous428]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:02pm

Skittles, I completely agree. It's one thing to have like....an alum of the school or at least someone who went to school for acting/musical theater to be teaching a master class. It's another thing to have someone who hasn't gone to school, not only because he hasn't actually been trained, but also because it's basically like saying "hey! I did it without proper training. Maybe you can, too!" You know what I mean?

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:11pm

Yours is colorful, skittles, but still with sort of dark tones. It still fits.

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:15pm

Do you think Adam has any talent? If yes, then possibly he can help someone else with his or her talent too. Maybe not, of course, maybe he'll suck at this, but just because he never studied formally doesn't mean he hasn't picked up some good basic information from his own experience and the very able people he's worked with.

Actually, I never studied film sound editing either, but I'm quite good at it.

Once again, he won't be "teaching," especially not singing or acting technique. What he'll most likely be doing is listening to some students perform a song and making suggestions to them.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:19pm

My av doesn't fit in with the "dark" theme. Oh well.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:20pm

Honestly, my feeling is that... yeah, he's a good singer, but that's natrually occuring. And people who try to do what he does COULD cause serious injury to themselves. So I feel like... well, what's the possiblity that his suggestions are going to be valid? I could see him having performative advice, but even still, that is sooo not his forte. I feel like of all people, it's sort of a random thing.

I'll be curious to know how it goes, regardless.

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:21pm

Right, but he doesn't have any formal vocal training, either. I'm sure he could make some general suggestions anyway, but in that case, I could be the one making the suggestions. I realize he's had musical theatre experience, but his experience is so far removed from what the students are taught that his opinion probably isn't any more valid than opinions from huge musical theatre fans.

Personally, I just think the class seems bizarre all-around, but as I mentioned earlier, I'm interested to see what he'll do with it.

ETA: Heh, Em and I posted basically the same thing at the same time. Updated On: 9/16/06 at 07:21 PM

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:28pm

Wouldn't the interviews he did for the American Theatre Wing be semi-related to a Master Class? I didn't watch it, because I thought it would be boring, and I have no idea what really goes on in a Master Class.

Lexi, I love that his biography has punctuation issues and that they omit some information and add filler about Justin Timberlake. We could've submitted a better one as a group.

[Chloe]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 7:32pm

Hopefully he won't tell anyone how to sing, but maybe give them some tips on how to perform. Here's a really great example of a master class by Barbara Cook.

http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/prog/lpa/video.cfm

[Ariella]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 8:10pm

I'd love to see Adam trying to tell them how to sing. At the Grove Concert after Tami sang Come to Your Senses from TTB!, he made some crack that he couldn't tell "a b-flat from a q-flat." That would surely impress the master class.

Posted: 9/16/06 at 8:12pm

Come to Your Senses is my favorite TTB song. It's my "walking around the NYU campus" song, too.

Ariella, did you find a way to upload your concert pictures?

[Ariella]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 8:16pm

I'm reloading them onto my laptop from the CD right now. It had to get reimaged, so of course I lost everything. I had to get my school stuff back up first, but I'm working on it.

How're your classes going, Lexi? Are you enjoying being out of the midwest?

Posted: 9/16/06 at 8:19pm

I'm definitely enjoying being out of the midwest. My classes will probably be fine considering I dropped the one that was requiring insane amounts of work. Still, though, I have to write a paper for an upper-level English class, and I have no idea how to form a thesis about poetry even though a paper is due on Monday.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/16/06 at 8:22pm

I had to write a huge research paper on poetry for AP Lit. I still remember it. The teacher hated me, so I got a C+, but that was *after* she re-graded it because her student teacher gave me an A. I hated that b*tch.

Updated On: 9/16/06 at 08:22 PM