And I don't even like the Plain Jane Fat Ass song. Maybe I'm crazy but I didn't think it was funny or smart. It was the Plain Jane Fat Ass in me that really enjoyed Plain Jane Fat Ass! It helped that I don't think Love, Dad is very strong, or rather that it's placement in the show seems very out of nowhere. At least with PJFA it makes sense to follow up on Nadia's disappointment at not having been cast as Juliet (and it's also a spiritual/tonal twin to Spring, which is good consistency). But I can see where they thought they needed to give Jason more to do in that exchange between them, to establish him as a character.
And the guy who plays Matt has to be Aaron! Seriously, that must be him and if it's not that's really quite amazing that the voices match so well. I know he didn't perform it in L.A. but he may have done the workshop.
I'm trying to figure out how this version of Bare became such a hit. I'm not sure I would have fallen as hard for this as I have for the New York incarnation. Well to be fair, it's only Act I and as we know even in NY, Act II is 1,000 times more emotionally involving. I can't really say what my reaction would have been to this Bare without the bias of having seen the NY version/cast. It may have been just new and different enough that I would have loved it just the same. I may have even loved L.A. Peter. Okay maybe not... :P
ETA: Okay, just finished Once Upon a Time and it was actually pretty good. He's still not John but this wasn't horrible. Yes, that's what I was mostly basing my reaction to him on. I wonder if he's like John, needing certain songs to really shine on. In the way we say not to judge John from the 11 song sampler, it may be the case with him. All that said, thank you John for taking the role because I adore you less than MoG, but still adore you lots and a hell of a lot more than L.A. Jason!
Oh and Once Upon a Time in Act 1? So bizarre to hear it there.
"Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run" - Jeff Buckley
Updated On: 8/29/04 at 11:42 AM
