The Raúl E. Esparza "Spread the Love" Thread, Part Four — Page 110

Raul is singing Being Alive tonight, for anyone else who is going.

As I'm sure you can all assume, I am having a hard time functioning today.

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No idea. That's all I know. I think it would be a little silly for people to sing things from stuff they were JUST in or are currently in. But since it's been a long time since Company and because Doyle directed it, I wouldn't assume that means anything about other song choices.

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Updated On: 4/26/10 at 11:19 AM

I read somewhere (maybe the Anyone Can Whistle playbill) that Doyle is having a lot of "Actor sings song from a role he originated, then hands it off to Actor who played the role in the revival".

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Hooray - Emcee has brought back her Bobby avatar for the occasion!

OMG if the reported approach leads to Lansbury and Cariou handing "Little Priest" off to Lupone and Cerveris! (Is Lupone scheduled to appear? I really ought to do my homework before posting...)

Raul Esparza can spread his love for me anytime, anywhere, anyplace.

I have not cried that hard at a performance probably since Company closed. Actually, once since Company closed -- the last time I saw Rent. But needless to say, rarity.

Happy birthday, Bobby!

CZJ is so gorgeous, I can't take it. She was good tonight! But I am in the camp that liked her in Night Music, too.

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Hmm. That's interesting. It's honestly kind of hard for me to say because I loved him so much in production. But maybe it was having the full orchestra? Maybe that way what he was doing didn't feel... exaggerated? That's not really the right word that I'm looking for, but not quite as in-your-face, I suppose. I think he was definitely a little more reserved, simply because it was out of context and so it's different because there isn't all of that emotional buildup. Also, maybe the bigger house, too?

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Updated On: 4/27/10 at 01:27 AM

Every time I have seen him perform it with Doyle out of context, he has included the spoken lines. I think it's really necessary, and I love when Doyle does them himself, as a huge fan of that particular vision, I think it's really special. With the Tony Awards performance, I believe it had to do with meeting the time constraints, and not being able to use the other performers, unfortunately. Bobby always seemed very vulnerable to me WITH the emotional buildup and the context, because you see this character live his life and then come to this enormous breakthrough, so I have to disagree there. But my God, I was a mess either way!

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Updated On: 6/4/10 at 09:35 AM

He was also at the Promises, Promises opening, along with a lot of other Pushing Daisies people. I didn't get to meet him, but I DID get to meet Lee Pace, and oh. my GOD, my friend and I were squealing like schoolgirls in a corner afterward. He is even better-looking in person, and absolutely lovely to talk to.

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Raul attended the opening of "Enron" last night, and was looking especially dapper and dashing.







Here talking to Jason Danieley

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Love the black suit, and the great tie. I swear, in some pictures he and Norbert look like brothers!

Damn, that's one hot picture!!

I have to agree. I think that while it has its advantages, Twitter is making daily life creepy. It's made privacy more of a commodity, and kind of given permission for that paparazzi effect to become even more commonplace than it already was. I'm particularly noticing that in the theater community. I think this kind of thing is something I would feel uncomfortable doing no matter what, but I can't understand why you would do it when the person is like a foot away from you and clearly close enough to notice. With stuff like BwaySpotted, calling a few friends to tell them who you saw on the subway, or even a polite, "Hi, I love your work," has been replaced with telling the whole world where someone is and what they're doing. I guess you could argue that that's part of being in the public eye, but I don't think you can argue that things like Twitter haven't changed it. I tend to be pretty conservative about this kind of thing, and I know that, but it makes me a little uncomfortable.

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Updated On: 4/29/10 at 04:39 PM