The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part ten- Page 99

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:05pm

I thought I heard an Adam Pascal song on the radio today, and I was all excited. I then realized that he probably will never be played on Canadian radio, and it made me sad. All he needs is a music video with half-naked women and strobe lights, then he'll make it.

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:06pm

haha

[CanadianSnowbird]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 5:09pm

He's way better than most of the crap I'm forced to listen to at work.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:20pm

That note in Glory is really only a b flat? It sounds so much higher! B flat is the note he hit at the end of Willkommen, which he just bumped up and octave. It may just sound different because of something simple, like the fact that in Glory it's more exposed, whereas in Cabaret he had 20 other people singing with him, along with a full orchestra.

I don't think he needs to encourage excitment for Glory.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:38pm

I don't know, Em, that's just what someone else said. B flat is still pretty damn high.

I don't know how similar the mechanics are, but I think of falsetto as the equivalent placement to a woman singing "legit" or classical style higher notes, while the usual tenor belted out notes are like a woman who's belting instead of using her head voice.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:43pm

Ohh! Okay, thank you Chloe...I still was confused, but was smiling and nodding. Now I think understand.

Unfortuntely, my notes are all escewed from playing clarinet, which is in a key two sharps sharper. I hear a Bb and call it a C, so I can't be help there.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:43pm

Oh, definitely. It's probably just that he really belted it in Cabaret, because it had to (even though he had a mic) project over everybody else. I mean, from the Chatterbox interview (where Seth goes "Raul tried for it" and Adam repsonds "well I don't want to *try* for it!"), he was showing off a bit with it.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:49pm

I'm a little confused now, Em. In the Chatterbox he was saying he didn't usually sing that high note in Cabaret, but that was early in the run. Are you saying you heard him do it when you went?

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:53pm

Yeah, I heard him do it... about a month and a half after he joined the cast. But in the interview, he says he hasn't done it yet because he doesn't want to -- like some -- try and crack; he wants to hit it. But, I remember being thoroughly tickled by absolutely everything he did on stage, and when he finished Willkommen, I grabbed my friend (and my poor, poor brother) and was like "OH MY GOD HIGH NOTE!"

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 8:57pm

I would have loved to have been there for that!

One difference is that he's singing on different vowels - a long "a" for Cabaret and a long "e" for Glory. The first one is a lot more open and conducive to creating more volume, while for the "e" you have to half close your mouth. It's a slightly different sound.

Updated On: 6/20/06 at 08:57 PM

Posted: 6/20/06 at 9:16pm

I just wanted to jump in to say that for a male, B-flat is indeed very high. I had a few male friends who were in choir as "tenors" and said they struggled to hit even A.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:01pm

Yes, I think I read somewhere that Josh Groban hasn't yet ventured up to a B, in public at least. I don't really know a lot about male vocal ranges.

I've been trying to find some sheet music for OSG on line, but so far have only seen that it's in G major. That would imply to me that the high note was a B rather than B flat.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:05pm

This is me spouting off obscure Chess knowledge again, but Anatoly (Josh's character) in Chess has a B in "Interview," which preceeds "Pity the Child" by a few minutes. It's on the second "chess is her passION" (the ending syllable is the B). The score could have been altered for Josh, though, although it sounds like a B to me. Josh is a baritone, so I wouldn't expect him to sing songs that routinely force him to hit that note.

And I think I may have a gift for you, Chloe...

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:06pm

So Chloe...seems like you sing?

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:10pm

Welcome EA to the Adam craziness on BWW =P I'm Angela

Woohooo 100th page!

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:11pm

I used to sing in choirs in college and for a while in my twenties, but never studied voice formally. I also took piano lessons for a few years. I wish I knew a bit more about theory.

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:17pm

Well, that's still more than me. I actually used to have a really good voice--in 6th grade I had a choral solo in graduation for "This is the Moment." It was all downhill from there though.

It's interesting how much I can know about music and aspects of singing throughy playing instruments, but there's still all this stuff about singing that I really have no knowledge of.

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:19pm

I wish I continued with chorus. Too bad I can't sing =/

Updated On: 6/20/06 at 10:19 PM

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 10:51pm

I guess not being able to sing would be a deterrent, Alex.

I finally got a peek at the sheet music for OSG. Assuming this is the original score, it's actually in G flat major (six flats). Maybe the sheet music companies changed it in order to make it easier to play. I'm pretty sure that means that Adam's high note in RENT 10 was a B flat.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:05pm

I wish I could help you out w/ this since my sister has the sheet music, I can't read music for my life. Maybe I could get my isster to help you out.

I saw this really cool video on Youtube w/ the french cast of Rent. It was very interesting. They were in rehersal, & they were rehersing (sp?) Rent. It was really cool to see it being performed in French. It was a bit more staged with certain & poses & stuff.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:11pm

That sounds interesting all right. I think there was a French version of Will I up also. Thanks for wanting to help, but I think I finally have the score figured out. And since you ask, it's "rehearsal" and "rehearsing" in the usual idiotic non-phonetic English way.

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:29pm

I'm not sure I entirely followed your analysis of Adam's note in Rent 10, but I'll take your word for it, Chloe.

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:33pm

Thanks Chloe! I was never good w/ spelling, well sorta.

[Chloe]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:45pm

You're welcome, Angela. Spelling English is not particularly easy.

Lexi, my analysis is difficult to follow because I didn't really explain it. On that "glory," in the score the first syllable starts on A flat and goes to G flat, and the second syllable goes back to A flat. Adam took the last note one step higher, to B flat, in what I now realize is a major rather than minor third from the G flat. If the song is actually in G, as it apparently is in the sheet music book, then all I just said would still apply, only removing all the flats. That's why I thought it might have been a B rather than B flat for a while.

That probably didn't help much!

[To The Stage!]

Posted: 6/20/06 at 11:48pm

haha I have no idea what you are talking about