Gerard Canonico as Moritz — Page 2

does anyone know when Stephen comes back?

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That makes no sense. Has Rob ever even gone on?

dammit. I'm going back to Sept 1 and bringing my family with for the first time and I REALLY don't want to see Ken again. Hated his performance! I also wish like hell they'd put Rob in.

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Speaking of being off-pitch, I recently saw the show for the first time since it was off-broadway. I LOVED IT...but, I had a lot of problems with some of the voices. People were off-key ALL THE TIME. I couldn't believe it.

I traveled to NYC to see SA this past Saturday and was honestly extremely disappointed when I found out John G. Jr. was out. I had been looking forward to seeing him for many months. Despite this I was blown away by Gerard. He was amazing! His vocals were spot on the entire show and the quirks of Moritz came through brilliantly. I love John G Jr., but it makes me wonder how arbitrary a lead role is given between such brilliant people.

As a comment to another post above. I realize the cast performs this show 8 times a week and there may be a certain level of strain on their vocals, but I was slightly surprised and disappointed by some of the pitch problems during the Sat matinee. I'm not a critical person, but at times I thought certain cast members sounded like average singers. The leads were all amazing though.

Updated On: 8/20/07 at 09:53 AM

PaulNYC, are you kidding me? Gerard going on was announced about a month in advance. If you like Gallagher so much, you could have exchanged your tickets.

Updated On: 8/20/07 at 11:03 AM

off-topic, but I wonder why someone so (reportedly) awful is cast as the Adult Men. He doesn't evn really sing, and the age is not that specific....there must be a jillion middle-age actors in New York who could do well in the role.

By the way, I'm usually the one to point out pitch problems, and I didn't hear any when I went (other than during Groff's falsetto later in the show)

They sounded better than I even imagined them.

yeah, he was way sharp on the tony performance.

Rush wasn't bad at all, broadwaybaby086. I was really shocked at how empty it was, especially considering the mob scene that was the rush for Matt Doyle as Melchior.

Groff essentially sounded perfect (or what I imagine his best is) when I saw the show in April, and when I saw the show a few weeks back he was having some vocal problems. Especially with the falsetto. He works well through it, but he should take more vacation. SA fans are obsessive about understudies, so it's not like he'll disappoint that many people.

I saw Ken, Alexandra (for Anna), and Gerard (for Hanschen) in the last performance I saw. I was amused to see the reaction from the fans being completely opposite from mine. Alexandra was hated by many fans, but just fine to me (in a role so underwhelming that you'd never notice that Phoebe Strole is even half as special as the Spring Awakening obsessives make her out to be). Ken was not as good as Stephen, but not noticeably awful. I probably just didn't care enough to notice. Gerard, who seems completely adored by the fans, was the weak spot of the entire performance. Totally pointless and charmless in that role. He made Gideon Glick seem like a one man act of absurdity. Which is the only thing that came close to saving that subplot.

So I guess I have a hard time imagining Gerard being a great Moritz. Glad he didn't disappoint those who saw it, though.

Yeah. I figured that's it. It often comes off as a byproduct of the overcompensating hatred of Lea Michele, but I can buy that she's been great in her more central performances.