The Official Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part 3- Page 54

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:18pm

Does spinach get you a voluntary?

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:21pm

A voluntary restraining order

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:23pm

You didn't even see The Guilty Ones - the Musical.

[opiv]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:30pm

I think Thrustalicious should feel obligated to give voluntaries to spinach-bringing fans.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:33pm

Dude, they're stealing all of our good names. Raul needs something better than thrustalicious.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:37pm

Dude, then it's an involuntary.

I really have to stop posting on here.

[Rentjenn]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:38pm

wouldn't that make it an involuntary - if you have to ask for it? Aren't voluntaries given without asking?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:45pm

Y'all are putting way too much thought into something you claim to be mocking...

So, how about this mysterious play Raul alluded to at the stagedoor?

Updated On: 7/5/07 at 11:45 PM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:51pm

I want him to do Dangerous Liasons. REALLY REALLY BADLY.

[Sondheim Geek]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:53pm

I'd see him do teletubbies go to Disneyland.

[Rentjenn]

Posted: 7/5/07 at 11:54pm

I don't care what he does as long as it opens before the end of August when I'll be in NY.

ETA: Of course that may be a little to soon.

Updated On: 7/6/07 at 11:54 PM

[obsessedjb]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 12:58am

walked by the theatre today ( I was really bored) and saw that they have already started taking down some of the posters

I'm really excited to see what is up next for him. Updated On: 7/6/07 at 12:58 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 1:02am

That big "infinitely rewarding" one looked like it was going to fall in somebody.

[Katecab99]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 5:09am

oh, they're taking all the stuff down already?? BOO! i mean, it's expected and necessary, but SAD!

and wow, i went back and skimmed through the first two installments of this thread - ya'll are crazy...funny and thoroughly entertaining - but crazy!
Updated On: 7/6/07 at 05:09 AM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 7:59am

I want him to do Dangerous Liasons. REALLY REALLY BADLY.

ME. TOO. Could you just imagine the sex and period garb? Need I post the Arcadia picture? (But seriously, I think it'd be fascinating to see him play such an evil, scandalous character.)

Alternatively, it'd be cool to see him in a comedy, but not a really light one. Which I guess would basically be Company, right? It's hard to think of something to follow that up.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 9:52am

I have a soft spot for men in period clothes (hellooooo, A Knight's Tale!). I just really want him to do something totally different that he can sink his teeth into. When I think comedy in the play department, I think like... Patrick Wilson in Barefoot in the Park, or something, heh. I guess a dark comedy play might be interesting, but I feel like sometimes those are a little cliched. It would be cool to see him in a new play...

[Katecab99]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 9:57am

Is it wrong that I enjoy him dark and tragic? I feel like that's not really a good thing! Updated On: 7/6/07 at 09:57 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 10:08am

Heh, so do I. It suits him.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 10:13am

Definitely does suit him, I agree. He has great comedic timing, though. I think he's probably at his best in a tragedy that still has some comedic moments, like in The Normal Heart.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 10:47am

He does have excellent timing. You're right, The Normal Heart is a great example...

"I had another fight with Bruce today. I slammed the phone down on him. I don't know why I do that -- I'm never finished saying what I want to, so I just have to call him back"

heh

Updated On: 7/6/07 at 10:47 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 11:19am

I love that part -- and when Ned is reading the letter on the phone, too. I remember Raul was saying that on paper, it can get kind of dense and read a bit like a newspaper, but then when it comes to life, it just WORKS. Granted, he was saying that and in my head, it was like "partly thanks to YOUR timing," heh.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 11:32am

I love when Felix is like, "Hey, I just called you weird" and he's like "You're not the first..."

I know, I was thinking that while he was saying that too

At first I disagreed, I didn't think it read like a newspaper at all on paper. Then I realized that I had seen Raul's performance BEFORE I read it, which is probably why

Updated On: 7/6/07 at 11:32 AM

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 11:39am

I read the play before seeing the revival, and I still didn't think that there's as much fault as other people find it to have.

[misschung]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 11:47am

I actually think that there is so much weight in a lot of the longer dialogue sections that can even be missed during live performances - just bc it goes by so quickly. It helps to read it

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/6/07 at 12:53pm

Oh, I totally agree; it really helped me to read the play after I'd seen it, because there's just SO much heavy dialogue that a lot of it gets by you too quickly when you first see it. But then.. I find the play a little bit of a paradox, in that sense. I feel like when you read it, you have pages of dense, heady dialogue about which I agree with what Raul said -- although, of course, if you believe that plays were meant to be performed and not read on the page, it's second nature that they are much more gripping when actors breathe life into them. At the same time, though, skittles and I were having a discussion once about the way that some of those passages need an actor who will just let the words speak for themselves. Like, take Bruce's monologue about Albert's death -- the words themselves are so powerful that they're great approached not forcefully, but from a very quiet, subtle standpoint. Of course, in that case, an actor is still definitely "breathing life into" the role, but just in a very certain, specific, text-mindful way, I guess. So maybe it's not that contradictory. I don't know. I'm thinking out loud and articulating this poorly, but do you guys know what I mean?

Updated On: 7/6/07 at 12:53 PM