Bobby Snorts Coke!
Bobby Snorts Coke!
#1Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:41pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28CkdFujKGM
Weird take on Side by Side...
BkCollector
Broadway Star Joined: 2/6/08
#2re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:46pm
BRILLIANT!!!
Once again Donmar makes it happen in a new and spectacular way.
#2re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:47pmThat production is so weird. And totally fascinating.
#3re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:47pmIs this the Adrian Lester version? I can't open the link...
#4re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 1:50pmYes.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#6re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:21pm
Great production....the Donmar had a superb series of Sondheim shows...Company, Merrily, Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures..and showed that a tiny theatre can have assigned seats (now if the Menier could note that!)
Adrian Lester was my first (and best) Anthony in the NT Sweeney
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#7re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:22pm
Did he sound like Kermit in Sweeney, too? 
I'm sorry, he's a fantastic actor, but I just can't deal with that voice!
#8re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:26pm
shame on you for saying such things!!!!
I really like his voice.
The Donmar Company was broadcast on BBC TV (where the Youtube clip came from. Has any one ever seen a DVD of this recording?
#9re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:26pm
Wow! I actually kinda like the London cd, and now will hear THIS every time. (You're sooooo right.)
#10re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:28pmFor the record, I do enjoy Kermit. Just not singing Sondheim.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/18/07
#11re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:31pm
Raul has some Kermit moments on the revival recording, bless his heart.
I listened to the Lester version on the plane to Europe this summer, and I actually laughed out loud at his voice.
Fromage - Raul can dance :-P
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#12re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:34pmI just don't see how it helps the story any.
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#13re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 2:37pm
Hah. "I MEAN IT when I say my life is totally prepared for a gigantic change, right now!" on the revival recording completely reminds me of a Muppet.
I think the coke thing is kind of similar to the constant, incessant drinking in the 2006 revival. It's another way of externalizing what's going on in Bobby's head.
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#14re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 3:12pmWell, at least Lester makes it clear why Bobby is single.
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#15re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 3:19pmI didn't particularly like his voice either at that time, but in his defence I saw him at the 30th anniversary performance of Side by Side by Sondheim a couple of years ago and his voice had matured enormously. Then his Being Alive was much more full blooded and/but traditional.
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#16re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 7:10pmAfter listening to three or four clips of this production, I don't like it. Does anyone in this cast have a decent singing voice? Are they trying to sound like New Yorkers? Not my cup of tea.
#17re: Bobby Snorts Coke!
Posted: 4/4/08 at 7:21pm
Their voices aren't the best and their accents ruin the songs sometimes but I like the production for the risks it took and how it tried to emphasize the really depressing grittiness of the show, it's like the black sheep of Company recordings/productions.
And Sheila Gish really stands out as Joanne...though not for the best reason most of the time.
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