Am I the only one that actually likes Matt Cavenaugh?

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Am I the only one that actually likes Matt Cavenaugh?

Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:21pm

...as a singer (I haven't seen him act, so I refuse to judge). I bought the new recording of WSS and he is one of my favorite parts of it. I think his voice has so much color and power to it. The unique tones to his voice blend quite nicely with Joesfina's voice. A great portion of people on this board strongly dislike his vocals and I'm not sure why.

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#2

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:24pm

He is bland as plain oatmeal as an actor.

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:27pm

Yes.

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#4

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:28pm

Shirt on or off?

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:28pm

"He is bland as plain oatmeal as an actor."

While I think he is pretty miscast as Tony, I thought he was quite good in Grey Gardens.

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:33pm

Judging solely by his singing and not his acting... Cavenaugh does have some very strong aspects to his voice and I like his delivery a lot more than many Tonys, but he sings with excessive vibrato. This is strange because I normally like singers with a lot of vibrato, but with him, it kind of hangs off every syllable, like he's singing while swimming through a lake of vibrato. There are also some moments when he sounds unpleasantly nasal. I don't dislike him, but I don't like him either.

EDIT: He's very cute, though.

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#7

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:35pm

I love him in everything he's done including West Side Story. Using the Joe Kennedy accent as Tony was an odd choice, but whatever. I still think he sounds great.

#8

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:38pm

"like he's singing while swimming through a lake of vibrato"
I want to swim in a lake like that!

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:38pm

i love him as well...

#10

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:40pm

He can't sing Tony properly but he's a fine performer. Enjoyed his work in Catered Affair and Grey Gardens (and his shirtless ads for Urban Cowboy).

#11

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:49pm

I think he's very good.

#12

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:52pm

... as long as he's not on stage.

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#13

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 8:55pm

Hot damn Brody! The last picture!

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#14

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:00pm

I enjoy his voice. I have only seen him in "Dorian" and really enjoyed him. He did a partially nude scene in the show that our theatre critic seemed to focus on but I thought his acting along with his singing was wonderful. I saw the show 3 times.

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#15

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:00pm

I've always enjoyed his performances.

#16

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:02pm

I think the character is mainly the problem. I have always seen Tony as a boring character and sort of a wimp.

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:03pm

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#18

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:07pm

Ooo! Sexual Dependency. It's a terrible movie, but still worth it for that scene.

#19

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:25pm

He was good in Grey Gardens, he is not good in West Side Story.

#20

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 9:58pm

I even had a friend and her 12 year old daughter see WSS a week or two ago: they thought he was terrible.

I liked him in GG; but didn't love him. Loathe him in WSS. I'd give him another chance based GG, though.

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#21

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Posted: 9/6/09 at 10:37pm

I do like his singing. I will give him credit for that on the West Side Story cast recording. However, it means nothing when he gives such a lackluster performance acting. It's almost like he's not alive on stage.

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#22

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Posted: 9/7/09 at 1:07am

I love everything about him!

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#23

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Posted: 9/7/09 at 1:11am

I liked him in A Catered Affair and at Tales from the Bad Years. But just didn't care for him in WSS

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#24

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Posted: 9/7/09 at 1:17am

Maybe, if he performed WSS in his tightie whities, he would get better reviews.

#25

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Posted: 9/7/09 at 1:24am

And Drunk Chita makes another idiotic comment. You're really blaming Cavenaugh's lackluster performance as Tony on the character? Plenty of actors have made Tony complex, troubled, and interesting.