The Official Adam Pascal Love thread- Page 643

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:50pm

She said something about being on her way back to school - between computers, I guess.

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 1:55pm

That makes sense..

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:01pm

Well, she'd better get back soon - she's deserted her post on the Adam thread for another guy!

How are you, Cam? How's the writing coming along?

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:12pm

I know, she's about to get fired!!

I'm ok.. feeling better today than yesterday.. I called it an early night and was in bed by 11:30.

As for the writting, well I'm about 3 pages into the second chapter.. at first I hated it (atleast the beginning of it), but was able to fix it with a few lines..It's better, I still may tweak it some though. now I'm changing a few things around further in.. It's getting there..

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:21pm

Great - it sounds like it's getting easier as you go along.

I'm feeling very deprived of Adam stories and drama in general. Last weekend was quite full of both - the Idina accident - whoo! Yet it hardly made a ripple in the outside world, didn't get a whole lot of press really. Ah, BWW IS a little world of its own, and it's sucking me in!

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:26pm

I dont know if I can say it's getting easier, it wasn't hard to begin with.. It's more I'm a freaking perfectionist so I make it hard.. amazingly enough the part that I did the least rewrites on was the section I wrote with a migraine. I posted it the same night so after the fact it was a little late to go back and change anyway. hehe

yes there is an extreme Adam drought.. What's up with that?

The outside world?? what is that? I live in bww.. is there another world?

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:31pm

::gasp:: You ARE far gone, is this the fate awaiting me?

Hold on, I think I remember an old Adam story I can drag in here just to keep things going.

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:37pm

ahh chloe you say fate like it's a bad thing.. it's nothing but pure bliss here in DeNial..

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:39pm

Actually, at one stage, I started reading some of it again, how sad is that?
QM - I did that last week, while I was deathly bored. I re-read random pieces of this thread, the spork thread, and some of the old summer AIDA threads. Kept me laughing... you need an avatar, by the way.

Chloe and cam - I'm finally home. I was home but busy yesterday during the day, then in NYC without a computer. I logged onto etheb's for a bit, so that's where I was if you saw me pop up last night. I was asleep early, though... 4:30 a.m. wakeup. Now I'm home again, but tired. *rests head on desk*

So... an Adam story might be nice. Last night, etheb and I were talking about the RENT movie and such, and I was whining about the lack of Adam... and the small void in my heart. *cries*
How's THAT for dramatics?

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:44pm

**pats Em's head** there there hun.. we missed you..

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:45pm

Missed you guys, too!

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:46pm

Emcee, aren't my clones enough for you? Huh?

QM, I actually have read bits and pieces of it- I'll sporadically go click on any random page some days and start reading. Good times. I wish Delphie posted here more like she used to.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:48pm

Huh? Oh, of COURSE they are.

Hey, this has nothing to do with Adam, but go read about my Patrick escapdes!

Patrick Wilson on Good Morning America

Updated On: 1/13/05 at 02:48 PM

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:52pm

I'm not at all sure if this is what you guys would consider a good Adam story, but I thought it was interesting. It's a NY Times story from '96 when both Rent and Noise/Funk had recently opened, about the wear and tear on the singers and dancers in the two shows. Adam was the person they talked to from Rent. I edited out the end, which is only about Noise/Funk.


They're Singing and Dancing Despite Pain
By DINITIA SMITH (NYT) 1104 words
Published: September 23, 1996

They call it killing the choreography. Dance until you achieve transcendence -- jazz splits, toe stands, 'Russian' leaps. Dance until you reach an endorphin high, where there is no pain anymore from inflamed iliopsoases (hip muscles) or patella tendons (knees), or hairline fractures of the calcaneus (heelbone).

Night after night at Broadway's Ambassador Theater, the performers in 'Bring In da Noise, Bring In da Funk' tap-dance almost nonstop for one and a half hours, eight shows a week, sometimes literally working themselves into a frenzy. And they have been doing it for nearly a year. Before its Broadway run, 'Noise' played for nearly three months downtown at the Public Theater.

'We got knee problems; we got back problems,' said the show's star, Savion Glover, who despite injuries has never missed a performance.

'It's all mental,' Mr. Glover said. 'We can go out there with a broken knee -- hey, you don't feel it till after the show.' But sometimes the dancers come offstage so winded they drop to the ground.

If 'Bring In da Noise' makes excruciating demands on the bodies of its cast, 'Rent,' at the Nederlander, puts similar strains on the voices of its 15 young actors. The cast belts out songs for the standard eight shows a week, but there are five performances, instead of the customary four, crammed into each weekend. Broadway previews began in April, but, like 'Noise,' 'Rent' also had a downtown run, for two months at New York Theater Workshop.

'By the end of the Sunday matinee I can barely utter a word,' said Adam Pascal, who plays Roger, one of the two star-crossed lovers at the center of the musical. 'I start to freak out.'

It is not uncommon for a single performer to carry a Broadway show, and suffer accordingly. A prime example is Julie Andrews, the star of 'Victor/Victoria,' who is so exhausted at the end of the week that she collapses on a futon in the back of her station wagon on the way to her country house.

But 'Rent' and 'Noise' are unusual in that they spread the pain around. Both have stark industrial sets that remain more or less stationary during the show, focusing additional attention on the performers. And both have relatively young casts, unpracticed in the art of keeping fit during long runs.

'Rent' has a total of 33 songs, which are sung nonstop throughout its two hours and 40 minutes. Many of the singers come from rock 'n' roll, where performers have a tradition of belting out songs and not warming up first.

'The songs have lots of rock elements that push it over the edge,' said Mr. Pascal, who was in the rock group Mute. 'Plus, the songs are high in everybody's range.' The cast members, though miked, also have to project from the back of the cavernous set, leaping up and down from platforms as they sing.

The choreography for 'Bring In da Noise' is relatively 'low to the ground,' meaning that the dancers tap with their knees bent, putting added stress on the knees. The entire cast is now under the care of an orthopedist, Dr. Phillip Bauman, who is director of the Katherine and Gilbert Miller Health Care Institute for the Performing Arts, affiliated with the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center.

The real problem, Dr. Bauman said, is that 'Savion Glover is the best tap-dancer in the world, and when you have someone like that as the lead, people push themselves beyond their limits to try and keep up with them.' He added, 'It's unbelievable that Savion can continue.'

In one recent show, Mr. Glover did eight back handsprings into a back tuck. 'He almost killed himself,' said Jimmy Tate, a fellow dancer. 'He was that far from the pit!'

After that, Mr. Tate said, the show's producer, George Wolfe, banned the maneuver. 'He said, 'Please, let there be no more acrobatics.' '

Mr. Tate has himself danced with a sprained ankle, a pulled groin muscle and a stress fracture on his heel. He once asked Mr. Glover, who suffers from chronic back pain, when the last time was that he had danced without pain. 'He couldn't think of it,' Mr. Tate said.

But if you tried to slow the dancers in 'Noise' down, 'you'd be trying to cage wildlife,' Mr. Tate said, adding, 'When the energy goes beyond a critical mass, we lose our minds.'

Broadway singers refer to that critical mass as 'blow out' -- singing so hard the voice just dies. Rest usually follows such an incident, but some performers in 'Rent' try to sing through it. 'Once you're out there, there's no turning back,' Mr. Pascal said.

Mr. Pascal, who has never had voice training, though he sometimes practices with a voice coach, tries to forestall trouble by eating 'clean,' meaning sushi. He avoids cigarettes, alcohol and dairy products. And before each show he takes a puff of Ventolin, a bronchial dilator, to stop his throat from closing up, a problem he attributes to allergies, though he said, 'I never knew I had this problem until I did eight shows a week.'

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:55pm

YAY ADAM STORY!

And poor baby... allergies.
<-- has the WORST allergies ever.

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:59pm

Emcee, your link is making the page V E R Y W I D E. But I guess there's nothing you can do.

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:00pm

Allergies suck.. Ventolin is my hero..

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:00pm

Chloe - on my screen the link's appearing as two lines. Hold on, let me see what I can do.

ETA - how is it now?

Updated On: 1/13/05 at 03:00 PM

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:07pm

Thanks! Much better!

I'm glad you had a good time this morning - making those signs really paid off, it seems.

[camerangel]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:09pm

Much better hun..

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:10pm

okay, good. And yeah - we had a good time. Patrick's such a sweetheart.

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:15pm

Thanks, Chloe. For some reason I thought he did smoke, but apparently not in '96, or at least not that he talked about. FIVE SHOWS A WEEKEND? Gah. I hope his voice is still around in ten years.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:19pm

Yep, here's the five: Friday night, Saturday matinee and evening, Sunday matinee and evening.

And nope. The smoking is that old pot addiction thing - so far as people know. Raul's the one who smokes. Or, well... one of many, unfortunately.

"I hope his voice is still around in ten years."
Well, me too. But, almost ten years from that article, he still sounds wonderful.

[insomniak]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:21pm

Ohh, I didn't get that you were counting friday as the weekend. I thought they had three shows in one day and I was going to say... that's scary.

You'd think bway people couldn't smoke because of the intense vocal acrobatics, but apparently not.

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:27pm

Apparently smoking of any kind is terrible for the voice. Elton John had to have an operation on his vocal chords back in the 80's, and it was because he'd been smoking pot. (He gave it up immediately, the only one of his addictions he got rid of then.)

Anyway, I remember reading a quote from Adam that he used to be a pothead, hope that wasn't for too long. And I *really* hope he doesn't smoke tobacco - so bad for him on every level.

Edited to just be better Updated On: 1/13/05 at 03:27 PM