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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 7:35pm

Look out, Adam's getting internet saavy again.

[meagan9848]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 8:19pm

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.

[Phantess]

Posted: 1/17/06 at 10:44pm

Doors Open: 8:30 p.m.
Show Begins: 9:00 p.m.

And for anyone who knows the campus it will be at BU Central. If anyone needs directions feel free to PM me.

[Chloe]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 12:02am

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

[amasis]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 1:09am

You see, Em, if I hadn't moved away, as an alum I might have been able to get you in.

Tsk. A few years too late, Adam. That's all I have to say.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 1:10am

Any BU students going?

[meagan9848]

Posted: 1/18/06 at 3:38pm

Chloe,

I think it is...but because of my particular major,I can usually get passes to these types of things through school. I asked my professor about it today, and she was pretty sure I'd be able to go, and told me who to contact. If it turns out I'm able to get passes, it's probably one per student, but I'd be willing to try to get some friends to get them for you guys...

...but nothing's definite

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:17pm

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.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:42pm

I went but didn't stay the whole time. He sang variations of "Maybe This Time" and "Maria." He also sang songs from his CD. I will post a longer review later.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:45pm

Thank you!!

His rendition of Maybe This Time is gorgeous.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:46pm

Just to confirm, it was Maria from West Side Story, right?

Ah, I can't wait! 6 days!

Updated On: 3/31/06 at 10:46 PM

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 10:47pm

bah

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

[misto625]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 11:49pm

Yes, "Maria" from West Side Story. As an encore he sang "One Song Glory" and "What I did for Love." I knew he wanted to sing a lot from Civilian and Model Prisoner but I still was a little disappointed in the lack of Broadway material ie Aida or more from Cabaret and Rent. The fact that One Song Glory was an encore that he had to be called back to the stage for saddened me a little. It should have been right in the middle. He's still a nice guy and all, but I hope he adds more Broadway content.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 11:54pm

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.

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

[iluvme2ofen]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 11:54pm

Sometimes bands count on the fact that they'll get encores. There was one band I saw in concert that didn't play their hit song-the song that made them, until the encore. It could have planned that One Song Glory was the encore.

[Chloe]

Posted: 3/31/06 at 11:57pm

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?

[misto625]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:02am

Oh i know Glory was most definitely a planned encore, but I still think it should have been part of the show and What You Own (his pianist was singing during the concert) or Wilkommen as the encore. I am not trying to pidgeonhole him, it just happens that I'm really not a big fan of his solo music and singing showtunes is what I like to hear him do. He easily could have done Elaborate Lives, Fortune Favors the Brave, or Easy As Life. The concert was just an hour long so he could have added these songs and not taken away from his own material.

[misto625]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:03am

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

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:08am

I'm assuming he's got new material floating around somewhere. I mean, he hasn't been doing other stuff. Write, Adam, write!!

I think doing Willkommen by himself would be really awkward and choppy. If you pull out the improv and the dialogue, you've just got a repetitive theme. I also still think there's a good reason he does Glory at the end. That's the biggie. That's his trademark, at least as an actor.

I'm shooting in the dark, but if it's just Adam on bass (?) and his pianist (who is amaaaazing, by the way), Fortune would sound ridiculous, no?

His shows are usually only an hour....

I'm not saying you are trying to pigeonhole him. I'm just giving an explanation for that which disappointed you. Hell, he used to be like "if you want showtunes, go to Broadway." At least he's being a little bit more open to it. And honestly, you got to see him. For free. Be grateful.

Updated On: 4/1/06 at 12:08 AM

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:18am

So, yeah. Down to business.

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

[misto625]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:20am

I go to Broadway as much as I can hehe. Almost the only reason I go anyplace IS to hear showtunes. If the fliers hadn't said Songs From Rent on them, note the plural, I would have been less inclined to go or not stay the whole time.

Adam actually had three guitars with him, bass/ electric/ acoustic. I would have listened to a 2 piece version of Fortune, curious how it would have sounded, and I don't think it would have been ridiculous. You're probably right about Wilkommmen, the recurring theme is all that I am used to, never having seen the show. I just expected more of a balance since I think significantly less people would have bought his CD's without his Broadway success, and what you're saying is that he has the tendency to bite the hand that fed him. Without Rent and Aida, he wouldn't have been given the forum to share his music, especially not on the Sh-K-Boom label.

[misto625]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:22am

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.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:24am

Plural. So he clearly intended on doing Glory.

I'm not saying not to attribute the fact that he's released two albums to his Broadway success -- and I'm fairly certain he's quite well aware of that as well. I'm just saying. I don't know what makes people expect that he's gonna sing an hour of showtunes.

I'm not saying he bites the hand that feeds him, and I hate that people always interpret him that way. He seems fully aware of the roots of his success; but he has the right to step out of that and do other things -- and to do them without always coming back to or constantly servicing his roots. I think you can see that he's very much grown to respect musical theatre, but I also think you can tell that what you saw tonight is his first love.

[Chloe]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:27am

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

[wickedrentq]

Posted: 4/1/06 at 12:29am

"The audience was predominantly female"

For some reason, that doesn't shock me

Thanks a lot for the report though!

Out of sheer curiousity, do either of you know if any guests were able to get in or if BU students filled the place up on their own?