The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part ten- Page 191

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:15pm

You should know better than to make statements like "I'm surprisingly underinformed..." around me.

First of all, that's his real name, though it sounds like something made up by a publicist in the 50's. He was born in Kentucky and grew up in Florida, then went to LA with his band to pursue a career in music - he played guitar. He got into acting by a fluke, became something of a matinee idol from the TV show 21 Jump Street, hated that and torpedoed his status somewhat by doing the John Waters film Cry Baby, a parody of the James Dean sensitive teen genre. It took a long while, but he kept working and learning in order to become the huge success he is now.
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Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:19pm

Hee. Thanks, Chloe. :)

My mother thinks he's disgusting, but I think mothers are SUPPOSED to think that about him.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:23pm

I think he does cultivate that somewhat, but if your mother were to meet him, she would be enchanted by his almost courtly manners.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:30pm

Chloe, I love your propensity toward informing people. Have you actually met Johnny Depp?

Anyway, I'm a fan of his as well. I'm actually sort of excited to see how he'll do with Sweeney Todd.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 10:38pm

Yes, in the course of my work. He's a doll.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:30pm

*waves*

Hello all. I'm home. I had the opportunity to see DRS yesterday, but didn't want to spend the money. Oops. Whatever, I'll see the tour instead.

I have the black and white poster of Em's avatar. I've seen nearly every Johnny Depp movie out there. Some I rented only because he was in them.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 8/17/06 at 11:41pm

Hello everyone. I am absolutley drained right now. I woke up this morning at 7, had training all day, ate dinner in half an hour, helped coach a junior pom squad, and then I had to go back to the school to help decorate for freshman orientation. I have no energy right now and I have to get up really early tomorrow. School is starting already and it feels like just yesterday summer started. Oh how time flies!!!!

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:25pm

Summer vacations aren't what they used to be. Everyone was much more laid back in my day. Especially in grade school, summertime loomed as an endless expanse of doing whatever you wanted.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:27pm

I've really come to dislike summer, and its lack of structure. There's too much time to dwell on things, and at least when you're so busy during the school year, obligations become distractions.

I've had plenty to do this summer, but it still seems that way, sometimes.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 12:34pm

It's too bad that there are things you need to be distracted from, but I know the feeling. BWW is just one big distraction as far as I'm concerned. However, I can still remember that bliss when school was finally over and three months looked like forever. Along with that, of course, was the feeling that next Christmas was lightyears away.

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 5:26pm

Johnny seems like such a sweet and laid back person. I just watched Gilbert Grape today..I was in the mood. I'm a huge fan of his work, I think he's just one of the best actors around today. I pretty curious to see how well he does in Sweeney, i'm sure he can pull it off great.


My grandmother absolutly hates him. She called him a fairy in Pirates.


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[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:25pm

Well, that's kind of... er, accurate. It's not like you can rightly call Jack Sparrow a typical, butch Pirate.

I think he's gorgeous, but it's rare to find an actor like him who has achieved such great success, I think, and what I like most in actors is the type who really throws himself completely into the work, and does in-depth research, and isn't just getting up, going to the set, and going through the motions.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:30pm

I'm sure he'll be able to perform a convincing version of Sweeney, but it probably won't be everybody's idea of the part.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:49pm

I feel like I want him to shave his head, because now I associate Sweeney with baldness. ha.

[Dancinqueen123]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:51pm

Kind of going off-topic, but not really because it has to do with Adam, but you're all talking about Johnny. I was talking to a girl today and she's also an Adam fan, but she pronounces his name different than I do. I say Pas-cal, she says Pas-kul. It makes me irritated because I've heard him pronounce his name before and it just kills me that such a big fan would pronounce it differently

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 7:57pm

I've never understood how it even looks like it might be the other way, since it's er, English, but whatever. I guess it's excusable in that you don't often hear their names pronounced. I mean, a lot of people say "Raúl" wrong. :)

I'm listening to Adam sing Flying Home. It's gorgeousss.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:11pm

Well, as I've said before, people probably think it rhymes with "rascal." English is so messed up.

I love Flying Home too. I wonder if that song will be part of his Broadway show. What's your wish list for that?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:25pm

I Don't Care Much. Why he sings one of Sally's songs and not that is beyond me, especially because he sounded so great doing it. I don't even know what else, heh.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:46pm

I'd love him to do that too, it's so haunting, but he evidently feels Maybe This Time is a better song. I can kind of see his point. The idea behind it is more universal. It was nice hearing him describe how much he loved listening to "the beautiful Susan Egan" sing it every night in Cabaret. I know he loves the songs from Hedwig, maybe he'll do something from that.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:50pm

Oh my God, I want to hear him sing Tear Me Down and The Origin of Love.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 8:57pm

Didn't he do some Hedwig songs at a concert once?

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:18pm

I'm done with work. Yay.

He might feel that I Don't Care Much is too much of a downer for a concert, too. It's as if he sang Pity the Child at a concert -- I don't have any doubt that he'd do a great job with the songs again, but he might not feel that they're appropriate for a concert setting.
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[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:24pm

Yay, Lexi. That must feel good.

I was thinking that about the show too. I doubt if he'd do songs he didn't love, but he probably wants a balanced program. Maybe that's why he ended up not doing Easy As Life.

Posted: 8/18/06 at 9:31pm

I'm only a bit saddened because someone who seemed completely awesome just started today. We were really busy so I didn't get much of a chance to speak with him, but he's a musical theatre major and a huge Rent fan (and yes, totally gay). He asked me about some of my favorite performers and I mentioned Adam's name, to which he started said something like "that boy can't dress." So funny.

I wondered how he'd deal with the gender pronouns in Easy as Life (probably my second favorite song from that show, so I was really looking forward to hearing it), too.

[Chloe]

Posted: 8/18/06 at 10:06pm

That's too bad. He sounds like fun. I've never understood how anyone could think Adam was gay once they've seen how he dresses.

I don't think the pronouns would be a problem - there don't seem to be any rhyming issues. It would be interesting to hear it done by a man.