ADAM PASCAL to Hold Concert at Boston University!!! — Page 2

I'm going to ask my professor about the NACA thing tomorrow...I feel like she'd know about it...after all, she is the staff adviser for Music Industry students.

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The NACA thing sounds like a showcase for bookers, rather than an event open to the public, but you never know.

Any BU students going?

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The show's probably over by now, so I'll bump this in hopes of a report -- I know we have a few BU students on the board.

Please post thoughts, stories, pictures, anything.

If any of you went, I hope you loved him.

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Thank you!!

His rendition of Maybe This Time is gorgeous.

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bah

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Updated On: 3/31/06 at 10:47 PM

Adam rarely performs Broadway material at his solo gigs, so you're lucky to have gotten any at all. When he did the Rent music at the reunion concert with Daphne, it was the first time he had sung those songs in years. After realizing how much it would mean to people to sing Glory again, he started doing it, after years of blatantly refusing. But the point still holds that these shows are an opportunity for Adam to get his own music out there.

That said, I don't think there's very much from Aida that he could sing alone. He could get away with Elaborate Lives, or with a song that Radames didn't sing. He was working on an arrangement of Easy As Life, so maybe it's coming. There's more material for him to work with as far as Cabaret goes, though. Personally, I hope he'll do I Don't Care Much a few more times, because I've never heard anyone sing it the way he did. I think he's also trying to step out of what he's known for, even in the realm of showtunes. He often expresses concern with being pigeonholed, or known for some x, y, or z -- I'm sure you can see that accounted for in the fact that he's singing songs like Maria and What I Did for Love.

As for the fact that Glory was an encore, are you not aware of the tradition of a planned encore? People would've wanted more, and he would've obliged with one last song. It's for build-up effect -- the song everybody wants to hear him do. Glory was at the end of the regular set, or the encore for two of his last three NYC shows.

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Updated On: 3/31/06 at 11:54 PM

Thanks for the report, misto. Sorry you were disappointed, but that's actually two or three more Broadway songs than he has done in the past. Are you familiar enough with his CD's to know if all his own material was from them, or if there was anything new?

I think there may have been a new song actually, but I forget the name of it.

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So, yeah. Down to business.

What did he wear? How's his hair? What kinds of stories did he tell between songs?

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He had brown shirt, leather jacket. His hair was short, dark blonde. Exactly how I thought he would look. He didn't really share any stories between songs, just sometimes explained why he wrote it or his reasons for singing. The audience was predominantly female. Hard on the ears at times.

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Not at all, misto. Though at first he thought of Rent as a fluke, after Aida he's often said how fortunate he feels to be on Broadway. I think it's more a matter of creating a separate identity for his own music. You're right that he wouldn't have gotten onto Sh-K-Boom without his Broadway work, but it was set up specifically for theater people to be able to do non-Broadway music. That's why the cast albums are now on the new Ghostlight label instead of Sh-K-Boom itself.

ETA: I knew Emcee would beat me to it!

Updated On: 4/1/06 at 12:27 AM