The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part two- Page 99
The Official Adam Pascal Love Thread, part two
#2450Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:05am
I've got a cold.
You missed it, when I'd literally listen to the CD and cry after I saw them film. I didn't even know why, it just was like "it's so *sob* beautif*sob*ful." I didn't sleep for a few nights, because I was just thinking about it all. It kind of messed me up. heh.
#2451Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:08am
Uh Huh
I used to be a junkie
That was a wild experience, I always missed them when they were filming and was not yet a regular visitor here so I really missed out. The whole show just effects me very very deeply, and to think of Adam, Anthony and the rest putting the work back in, wow, I'm about to cry now.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2452Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:14am
Now and then I like to... feel good.
::cries too::
I re-read those posts all the time. I don't want to let myself forget. It all became way more than a musical that night. I haven't seen the actuall show since, though. I think that'll be weird.
#2453Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:19am
Here it... uh...
Wow, that would just be so intense. I really liked the show last night though, it had so much power for me even after all these years and the cast beat my expectations by a lot.
When was that? There is so much more than just a musical there when you see it and feel that creative energy, it means so much and does so much to you, ack, there I go again.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2454Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:21am
What's that?!
The cast now is pretty great. The weird thing is that SINGULARLY they're all wonderfully talented. And then there are pairs that work well - you know, Roger and Mimi have great chemistry or Mark and Roger work well together, but that overall sense of community is still missing. They feel more like individuals than they do a community, and while there are definite lead roles and ensemble roles and such, I feel like RENT is so much about the whole, that there has to be a bigger sense there. They need to have more togetherness.
It was... 3/10/05. It was actually in the East Village, right across the park from the Life Cafe. When I realized where I was, and who I was there with, it blew my mind. Still does.
#2455Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:26am
candy bar wrapper
That is exactly how I felt about the cast, although Roger and Mimi were really, really on. Mark actually seems to be enjoying the spotlight just I tad to much. They are all giving really great performances but without that impact of being a group that really seems to know what its like to be a group together.
I can only dream. 3.10.05 at the Life Cafe after Maureen's show. wow 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2456Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:41am
We could light the candle... oh, what'd you do with my candle?
Matt Caplan? Can't stand him. He's too busy trying to make the audience laugh, then when Mark's all alone and a mess, you just find it really hard to give a sh*t. Matt's bored, and it shows.
Did you ever read the set posts? I like to pimp them.
#2457Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:47am
That was my last match.
The last time I saw it I enjoyed him, but I was on the very back row so I couldn't see his tics. He was always trying to be funny and I hated his delivery in "Goodbye Love" and "What you Own" he kept fidgetting and glancing at the audience and wouldn;t enounciate. I liked his La Vie Boheme though. He did make the emotional connection to Mark very hard but he and Cary Sheilds played well off each other.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2458Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 12:53am
Our eyes will adjust. Thank God for the moon...
Matt and Cary have worked together in the show a lot, so their connection is GREAT. But I can't take him seriously. He's too busy with his out-of-character antics. 
I need a Mark with a heart, someone who can really break YOUR heart when the time comes.
#2459Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:00am
Maybe its not the moon at all...
I hear Spike Lee's shootin' down the street.
(where you can in before right in here or just before I believe)
Winks and asides, and I couldn't even focus on his scene cuts, because he wouldn't stop moving. Its like he doesn't understand the character and that kills me because that is me. I'm the Mark who watches and observes and serves everyone else to hide from my own insecuritied, "I'm the one of us to survive"
He even screwed up that line, made that a joke. HOW do you make that a JOKE?
He was like Motel in the Fiddler Revival, first scene oh he's funny, second, ok calm down, third that guy is not real, why isn't he a "man" now, forth please get this guy off of the stage.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2460Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:05am
bah humbug....
(and yes, same place!)
He's like a fidgety little cartoon character. I saw him when Drew was on vacation, and I was so excited to finally see THE Matt Caplan. SO disappointing. I almost liked Drew better. He was so subtle because he took no chances because he can't really act; he had a lot of problems, but at least he wasn't acting like a child up there.
#2461Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:09am
Cold hands
Cartoon character is it. I did not go while Drew was in because I was worried, I'm wondering now if I should have done it anyway. Childish and silly just does not scream Mark to me. Understated, and internally struggling does. The two people who went with me were split, one loved him and the other hated him.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2462Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:13am
Yours, too. Big... like my father's. Wanna dance?
I was afraid of Drew for a while, but then I had this moment where (I forget why, the anniversary of Larson's death, maybe?) I was like "MUST. SEE. RENT. NOW." so I braved the Drew. He really wasn't as bad as I'd expected at all.
#2463Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:21am
With You?
I couldn't do it. But I know that feeling well. The original cast just once would really get me though, to see something like you saw or I don't know. Its just nice to know I can still be effected by anything so strongly.
(hey this is my 701st post, I feel like I'm moving up)
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2464Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:22am
No. With my father.
Today when I was changing my avatar, I realized that I'm not very far from 20,000 posts. I'm sick, really.
#2465Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:23am
From my review of that time:
Drew - Drew, Drew Drew... Well, he wasn't the trainwreck that I'd expected, and he was better than Joey Fatone, I thought. He wasn't awful, and I guess I'm kind of on the fence as to what to say my overall opinion of him is. His negatives outweigh his positives, but I didn't hate him. He has a nice voice, but it's very... boy band-ish, obviously. When he's not too whiny, he's actually very pleasant to listen to, but that's kind of a sporadic occurence. It seems like he's almost trying too hard to be nasally, because that's the Mark stereotype. His speech and singing were a little bit robotic sometimes, but not others, and his enunciation and articulation were really poor, to the point that had I not been very familiar with his lines, I may have found myself pulling a "wait, what'd he say?" a couple of times. His acting wasn't too bad; he plays a pretty sweet, goofy, clumsy, slightly lovable Mark, but it's not gone overboard. He was distant when the time came, but he has a decent amount of presence when he needed to show it. I'm not cursing myself that I actually caved and went to see him, so I guess that's a good thing.
#2466Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:26am
I'm Roger
That's not so bad, well its a lot, I mean I figure I may break a thousand by the time I've been in a month so 1000 a month I would be at about the same pace. I won't be with internet access this summer though so I will fall behind. The draw of this place amazes me, I don't stop til late and I get on early and tend to BWW through doing other things. I may have to be cut off. 
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2467Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:30am
They call me... they call me.... Mimi.
The first (and only) time I heard Adam sing the "I'm Roger" line in person, I cried like a fool. It was so weird.
I'm completely and legitimately addicted. It's really bad, but I love it, and I love all of you guys! 
Afte rall, would I know I wanted to be a happy little critic unless I'd found BWW? Maybe not!
All summer? Sad!
#2468Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:38am
Yes, I figure I'll try to pop in on weekends but I'm working as a counselor for the counselors at a summer camp and I don't think I will be able to do much.
I love you reviews, they have so much heart. That is often a missing trait. You brobably wouldn't be and I'd be a guy with no outlet for my obsession with broadway. I love feeling in, and watching people fight, and being able to make friendships in such a crazy and random way. I've never been a big "message board" type but this one has that draw. I love how there is so much space to exist within here, Broadway takes lots of types, ok not so many of the young straight guys like me, but there are even a few of us. Its just really fun.
I think I would definitely cry if I saw Adam doing that line, there is so much emotion in that moment.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2469Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:45am
That's what all is going on right now. I don't want to be the one everyone hates or fears, and the one who crashes parties and crushes hearts. Some of the stuff Boy George said in that movie really got to my heart, and so did something Raul said in one of his gazillion new interviews. He said that the good critics don't just go to say yay or nay. They do it because they want to be a part of, and talk about theatre. I guess I'm afraid of the "evil critic" reputation, but this is really where my heart is, and there's nothing that would make me happier than to do something with it.
I had never done the "message board thing" til I found BWW, but something drew me in. The thing that ultimately kept me was that people were so accepting, for the most part. I loved that I could have a conversation with someone who might be twice my age, and that they'd LISTEN, because they weren't looking at a teenager and figuring "oh, just a dumb kid." People had respect because of what I was saying, and what I stood for. For most of my life, nobody did that for me. I was always brushed off for being a kid. The ability theatre has to bridge the age gap astounds me.
#2470Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 1:53am
It really is astonishing, one of the many great and powerful aspects of theatre. I'm not quite in yet, but I can feel that, I know there is always the possibility of strife but that is life. or lofe. I love how everyone may as well be the same age, I never ever would have thought you were as young as you are but that makes you even cooler, to be young and self-aware and genuine are amazing traits.
That evil critic rep can be killer, but as long as you keep that strong sense of the magic of the stage, a magic that will always be there you won't become one.
I must away to bed, it's been great conversing though. Good evening.
I stand corrected, you are as vapid as they say.
#2471Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 2:04am
The funnier thing than my age is that a lot of people used to think I was a gay guy! People assumed at first that I was a few years older than the 17 I was when I joined, but it's amazing that they're all still willing to befriend a baby.
Bedtime for me, too. Big interview manana. Goodnight!
Snaps
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/17/05
#2472Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 5:53am
Wow, guys. I'm loving the deep, heartfelt conversations at two-something in the morning. Bravo on being able to even put any coherent thought into words at an awful hour of a weekday.
And a baby, Emcee? Nah. You're not a baby. Not to me, anyway, who has to go to school now.
"Bangarang, Rufio!"
--Hook
Allie
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/04
#2473Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 11:08amIs anyone at home? I finished Angels in America last night!! I don't know if I will get to watch it again before I have to take it back on Thursday, but I may have to buy the DVDs. It was SO incredible, and I did lots of crying.
#2474Adam! (and Raul!)
Posted: 5/3/05 at 11:23am
I give my best emotional/intellectual discourse in the middle of the night, Snaps.
yaaaay, Allie! You have to find the script. I vote for watching again... while you've still got it.
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