Saw him a few times as Roger -- not that impressed. Does he have a good rock voice...oh yeah but he had the tendency to modulate EVERY SINGLE NOTE so that it ended up bearing little resemblance to the score Jonathan Larson wrote. I'm all for vocal stylings in RENT (i.e. Simone, Jeremy Kushnier, and Karmine Alers) but it got tiresome after awhile. Also...his acting was a bit on the weak side...just my opinion.
Well he doesnt "look" like a Roger, by comparison with other ROGERS I have seen. Constantine seems more scrawny (and he looks like he might smell cigarette smoke). ...but, like the character Roger, he is the real deal. He has his own band (which aren't that thrilled he auditioned for American Idol) that look a little hard core. The band was kinda bad mouthing the show.
He's definitely Greek! He even answered the question of why he should be the next American Idol with "I'm a nice Greek boy!". Which is kind of ironic, since it's not GREEK Idol, but alas!
Wow...Constantine was TERRIBLE as Roger. True in a different setting he might be a good singer, but as Roger, he completely disappointed me. I spent the entire show thinking in my head "Why was he cast as Roger?".
Luckily the next time I saw it, I had the pleasure of seeing Jeremy Kushnier (sp?). He rocked it out!
"You act like you're cleaner than the Board of Heath, but you're just a fame ho just like me. You know it...and you LOVE it!"
-Paradice to Brooklyn
I saw him as Roger on tour twice. He was very "interesting." He was my least favorite on the tour. He also tried to get my best friend to go to his hotel room with her. Kinda creepy. Lets see how far he gets on AI!!!! I also have a recording of him singins Roger.
I saw him as Roger on the tour also. He was fine. Nothing too exciting- I wasn't that impressed. But I'm all for him on AI.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
Constantine happens to be my first Roger. I saw him about a year ago on tour- and was not impressed with his Roger. I felt that his "Glory" was only decent, and had very little chemistry with the other actors.
"During this performance, please feel free to let your cell phones and pagers ring willy-nilly. However, do remember that there are heavily-armed knights on stage and you might well be dragged up and impaled."
(Pre-curtain announcement at the new Broadway musical Monty Python's Spamalot)
ok, speaking of rent and american idol... that guy named anthony something, with blonde hair and glasses... doesn't he look like anthony rapp? their faces are the same shape, and the same name... weird...
I saw him on tour and he is definitely the worst Roger I have seen. He kept fixing his hair and had no chemistry with Mimi or Mark. Through his actions I didn't believe he was in love with anyone but himself. His singing was okay, nothing horrible.
"I hope you're all happy, keeping Alan off the team. Couldn't you, for once, open your minds and hearts and hear something that he couldn't see? I, for one, am glad that Alan is blind, so he can't see what, I am so sad to say, you can't hear." -Jerri Blank
I have only seen him on ai but i am cheering for him. I happen to like that they have some rockers on the show this year. It also helps that he was associated with rent! That sounds like i am kind of shallow and stupid but whatever. I like him.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
yeah i noticed that. I was thinking maybe that they don't want someone with a fan base already. Hmm don't know though.
"At the opening night party, they had clowns on stilts, jugglers, a chocolate fountain, popcorn, hot dogs. [My son] looked at me like I had been holding back. Like, 'This is what you do?' I had to tell him, 'No, no, darling. Opening nights don't usually look like this.' It's usually a dark bar with a bottle of vodka." ?Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's Jan Maxwell
plus i proudly share the title of the shortest member over the age of 10 with wickedrentq!
Ok, I saw the tour in Atl the day after he left, and I was talking to some of the cast after the show and they were saying they were all very nervous about the show because this Constantine dude had left the tour very suddenly. Did something happen to him? It was just very odd and unprofessional that in the middle of a stop, he would pick up and leave.Anyone know what happened?
"Commit a little mortal sin, its good for the soul"
"Through his actions I didn't believe he was in love with anyone but himself."
I did a production of Jesus Christ Superstar with him a few years ago and that couldn't have been more accurate then -- so this comment made me laugh hard. LOL...