Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
#50re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/4/05 at 12:57pmLast 5 Years and then Wicked... But he was more cute in Last 5 Years...
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worrell4077
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#52re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/4/05 at 1:36pm
I've only seen him in two shows, Wicked and DRS, and out of those two I liked hime more in DRS because he has a bigger part in DRS than in Wicked, and he's just so hysterical in DRS than he was in Wicked. So I would have to say DRS.
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#53re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/18/05 at 6:46pmThe Last 5 Years. He just worked so well in the part.
#54re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/18/05 at 7:44pmWicked and DRS, I've never seen The Last five years.
#55re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/18/05 at 7:44pmTHE LAST FIVE YEARS. What a brilliant, nuanced performance, in one of those great musicals where the characters feel completely real and familiar. DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS may be where he steals the show, but THE LAST FIVE YEARS is his most fully-realized performance.
#57re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/18/05 at 10:49pmI've seen him in every show mentioned with the excpetion of the Cabaret tour. Definitely The Last Five Years. All the way. But I loved him in everything - even Wicked although Fiyero is a boring character.
#58re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/18/05 at 10:59pmHe was freakin' fantastic on the CABARET tour. That was my first experience with Norbert: I saw his Emcee in Toronto and exclaimed, "That actor is amazing!"
#59re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 1:32amHaving seen Norbert in The Last 5 Years, Wicked, DRS, AND in Thou Shalt Not (yes I'll even admit to that!)....I would have to go with either DRS or Last Five Years. Acting-wise in DRS and singing-wise in TL5Y. HOWEVER, for anyone else who saw the mess that was Thou Shalt Not...Norbert was the one shining star in it. It was such a promising show that never came together. There were parts that were supposed to be serious that came across as hilarious....like in the scene in the boat when Norbert is supposedly murdered and then all of a sudden he leaps back on the boat and they have to beat him back off again.....or when he comes back as a ghost.....the book Therese Raquin that it based on is actually a good read...too bad the show couldn't live up to. At least Norbert was entertaining in it!
#60re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:05am
i think ive already posted in this, but ill post again!!!
voice-wise
LAST 5 YEARS!!!
his voice is amazing and im just like, a puddle of mush when i listen to it, it makes me swoon. lol.
performacne-wise
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!!!
he is fricken hilarious! just amazing!
#61re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:53amTorn btween L5Yr & Cabaret. Incred as the Emcee esp w "I Don't Care Much". Maybe sl in favour of L5Yr. But only SL.
#62re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 10:58am
hm...ill have to find a clip or a recording of him in Cabaret.
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#63re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:32am
BlueWiz - U know he won the Dora that yr for Emcee. Toronto Theatre recognized his greatness b4 almost anyone!
Updated On: 6/19/05 at 11:32 AM
rent1988
Featured Actor Joined: 11/22/04
#64re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 6/19/05 at 11:42am
the last 5 years. totally and completely.
i saw norbert in both wicked and dirty rotten scoundrals and ive listened to the L5Y recording over and over and all i can say is...that man can SING.
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#65re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 7/3/05 at 4:19amI'm probably going to be the only one to say this, but I'm going with Wicked, mainly because it is the show that I first heard him in. And truly, he saved the show for me. I was a hardcore fan of the book, and were it not for the amazingness that was "Dancing Through Life," I probably would have been outraged rather than slightly irritated with the complete bastardization of the character Fiyero had been in the novel. Norbert's wonderful voice drew me in, in spite of the fact that Fiyero had been my favorite character. Thus began my road to being a huge Norbert fan. So I'm picking Wicked purely on sentiment.
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#66re: Favorite Norbert Leo Butz Musical
Posted: 7/3/05 at 8:45amI've never seen him in The Last Five Years so I'd have to say DRS.
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