The Official Adam Pascal Love thread — Page 903

like em, i remember very little from his performance from the early years of aida. all i remember is my mom was obsessed with him so she made me and my family see it. his voice was really all that i remember about aida. we frequently listened to the cd and from the performance i just remember that this guy in it was amazing. i, still, didnt really know who he was until this summmer when, in the newspaper, there was an add that said adam pascal was back in aida. my mom literally flipped out and made me see it with her in early july. it was AMAZING. i can remember how he delivered every line and how great he was with aida and how believable their love was. i made my mom take me back after we came home from our trip to italy and it was better than the first time. everything was perfect, the music was amazing. i convinced my mom to stage door and ofcourse... no show. i hadnt seen him in rent or cabaret even though i am very interested to see the bootlegs.. but i remember that he wasnt the best actor out there, he delivered his lines well and everything but his singing is what makes him famous.

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Hi Nia! Well, QM and Elle have said pretty much the same thing, in different ways. One thing I like about BWW and this thread in particular is people's willingness to be honest and clearsighted as fans. I think that's important. All that taken into consideration, it'll be interesting to see how Adam does in the Rent film. A director who's really good with actors can probably get an excellent performance from him. As I've said before, his ability to convey emotion with his singing means that the emotion is there to be tapped, it's just a matter of him learning to tap it in a different mode. The question for me is whether Chris Columbus can do this. I have no doubts about his devotion to Rent, but wonder about him as an actors' director. I don't think I've seen enough of his work to really judge. Just saw QM's accent question. This is an area I've had to deal with in my work. What has happened more than once with the more bizarre sounding accents, like Boston or Northern Ireland, is that audiences find them distracting and criticize the actor for having a "bad accent," when what they were doing was very authentic. It's not as cut-and-dried as it might seem. What seems to work best in some cases is a "modified" version of an accent that suggests what it is without being very strong. That's what a lot of the Cabaret cast seemed to be doing. Unfortunately I'm not enough of an expert on German accents to be able to judge Adam's, except that it didn't disturb me or seem like it was coming from the wrong part of Europe, and that would be the most important thing for the primarily American audience for the show.

Chloe, good points made by you. One of the few reasons Adam was 'trashed' on various boards for his performance was his accent, so it must have bothered a few people. You can trust me when I say I know a bad German accent when I hear one. Fact is that it wasn't even a bad German accent, it was just not a German accent. Germans don't see 'chappy' instead of 'happy'. I can't wait to see him in Rent. I have faith in him and have everything crossed for him as the 'big screen' has no mercy. QM

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Yeah, I noticed the glottal 'h' sounds. If anything, that would be Yiddish, I imagine. Which reminds me of a story Jimmy Cagney told about studying German in school with a lot of Jewish kids, and being told he spoke with a Yiddish accent when he went to Germany to shoot there. Anyway, I'll take your word on the accent, since I really don't know. :-P

Where are you from originally, if you feel like mentioning it?

ETA: That question was directed to QM - didn't see Diva's post.

Updated On: 3/12/05 at 03:10 PM

Yeah, Diva, Adam's stage presence is pretty amazing. Hi, ballerina - good luck with your time machines! I wouldn't mind having a few more of those myself. Have to get off and do some chores - see you all later.

eeeek! I missed a lot. I'll try to catch up in a little bit... Anyway: Unfortunately, I didn't see him on Victor's lap yum? There was some definite petting. Someone said something about presence - that's one thing I didn't mention when I typed that long crazy thing. He has so much, and even if he's not the best actor, he absolutely commands attention. And oh, the accent. haha...

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I hate this. Why don't I have any paragraphs showing? I did use them! QM

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I get what you're saying and I agree with it, I just wonder sometimes what our attraction is to this man. Hm.

nia, he's not devoid of talent. It's the voice, more than anything else.

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Emcee, if you're still around I want to ask you about something. Another set onlooker said that the whole OBC was smoking (as in cigarettes). Is that true? Oh, and QM, I didn't pick up on the discomfort with the audience members at all, but again, I wasn't there.

"I just wonder sometimes what our attraction is to this man."

The voice plays a big part, but I'm sure we all have slightly different reasons. I've only seen Adam live at the end of Aida, but I find QM's assessment a little harsh. Not that she's wrong, because there is no right and wrong when it comes to these kinds of opinions, but he struck me as being better than she described.

Oh, and have you taken a look at him lately?

ETA: There are some interesting, if blurry, pictures up on the CB movie forum, under Pictures from the Set.

Updated On: 3/12/05 at 07:12 PM

Actually, you might be confusing me with someone else here, QM, as I first saw him in Aida last August and September, and got interested in him because of that, not just from listening to the CD. At any rate, as I said before, we're only discussing opinions here, and each of us is likely to have a somewhat different one. I certainly didn't mean to cast any aspersions on your fandom! And I agree that it's possible to be a big fan and still find things to criticize in a performer.