Two days later and I'm still in a mild state of euphoria over my mini road trip down to lovely Bloomington, IL to see the man, the myth, the legend: Adam Pascal. This is a man who knows how to put on a show. It was a very musical theater savvy crowd, so the Broadway redux thing was a big hit, he did a fantastic job with pretty much everything. I was really impressed with his cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Meeting Across the River," which was apparently the fallout of an attempt at a jukebox musical that Adam deemed " TERRRible." But based on his performance of that song, I would have bought a ticket.
I got to talk to him afterwards and told him how the first time we met him in London, I was 15 and my sister 11- we're now 23 and 19, so I felt like we had grown up with him. He was incredibly sweet and just a genuinely good guy. What a champ.
And because a picture is worth 1000 words, and a video probably 10x that, here's the link to my amateur camera work that actually yielded pretty nice results. Watch for his rockstar moment at the end of "What I Did for Love." I can't lie. Eye-meltingly hot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2YLJq5kUo