I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
#1I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
Posted: 4/29/11 at 11:44pmI'm thinking about applying to Ithaca for MT and so I was checking out their website - I didn't know Matt Cavenaugh is an alum!? I LOVE him! What's he doing these days?
#2I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
Posted: 4/29/11 at 11:45pm
1) He and his wife just recorded an album
2) He's going to be in DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
Posted: 4/30/11 at 12:47am3) Will he do the same accent in that, as well? And deliver the same mediocre performance he always delivers?
#3I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:08amI certainly don't.
#4I miss Matt Cavenaugh!
Posted: 4/30/11 at 1:11amI had no idea who he was before West Side Story and when I saw him, I couldn't believe that he could be on Broadway. And having looked at his credits, I can't believe people keep casting him. So bad! That voice was miserably nasal!
starspangledjenny
Chorus Member Joined: 5/24/10
#7I miss Sam Peckinpah
Posted: 6/17/11 at 2:10pmI have posted before that I first saw him in "Dorian - The Musical" in Denver with Bob Cuccioli.
MichaelRhodus
Chorus Member Joined: 7/14/10
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#10I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 3:31pm
I have no clue how you can miss someone who's currently in a fairly major show?
I do miss when he was the awful gay boyfriend of the closeted serial killer on One Life to Live though.
#11I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 3:35pmMichael, you would have died during the portrait painting scene in "Dorian".
#12I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 4:18pm
Speaking of... I saw this photo. What was this show?
#13I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 5:50pmI'm pretty sure that's Urban Cowboy, during the threesome scene.
#15I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 8:01pm
And having looked at his credits, I can't believe people keep casting him. So bad! That voice was miserably nasal!
I realize everyone one has an opinion and even I can understand why people don't really like his acting but that VOICE! C'mon, he has one of the best voices on Broadway. His control, timbre, and just overall sound is brilliant. That's probably a huge part of him getting cast, with his looks. Does anything please you bitches?
AwesomeDanny
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/30/09
#16I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 8:11pm
"he has one of the best voices on Broadway"
Have you heard him sing? Have you heard his overwhelmingly huge vibrato that prevents him from singing actual notes on even an eighth note? Have you heard him speak with that strange accent? Really, not the best singer.
"Does anything please you bitches?"
Yes, quite a few spectacular people. We just don't like when beautiful Bernstein scores are sung on Broadway by people who don't do them justice.
#17I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 8:24pm
"Have you heard him sing?"
No, I've never heard him sing. i just like sticking up for actors and talk about how good their voices are for fun.
I would say he sang the West Story Score beautifully. He definitely gave that score justice.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#18I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 11:15pm
His voice is mediocre at best. He has an incredibly stunning song in 'Death Takes a Holiday' that he acts and sings poorly, as he does almost every material he's ever been given.
He has got to be one of the worst actors working today. The man can't act his way out of a paper bag. And to think that we're in Europe during 'Death Takes a Holiday' and he STILL sounds like he's visiting from Hyannis Port?
YAWN.
#19I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 11:26pmHonestly? Matt Cavenaugh had no place leading a Broadway musical. He's attractive, sure - but his voice? His acting? Nowhere near where it should have been. His replacements were much better than he was.
#20I miss Miss Shangri La
Posted: 6/17/11 at 11:29pmI thought he was great in both roles in GREY GARDENS....
#21I miss Patti Lupone
Posted: 6/17/11 at 11:35pmI saw Matt Hydzik, in WSS, and he was great. But, Matt C's voice on the cast recording is great, but that is judging solely from one album and no visuals/sense of acting. His voice doesn't sound nasal at all, but I'll look up some other videos/recordings.
MichaelRhodus
Chorus Member Joined: 7/14/10
#23I miss Patti Lupone
Posted: 6/18/11 at 6:55am
Like many one-trick actors, he seems to have a standard performance that he gives in each show. Having seen him in Grey Gardens, A Catered Affair, West Side Story, and now Death Takes a Holiday, I really cannot differentiate between the performances. It's the same vocal inflection, the same posture, the same attitude. I agree with Theater Trash. He has a song in Death Takes a Holiday that is written to be a show-stopper--although it really doesn't have much to do with advancing the actual plot of the show--and he turns it into five minutes of pure boredom.
His voice isn't all that impressive, either. He does have a huge vibrato, and when he sings in straight tone, his voice becomes incredibly small and thin. Even in a theatre the size of the Laura Pels, you get the impression that he would have trouble projecting without a microphone. Really, I don't get him or his popularity at all.
#24I miss Patti Lupone
Posted: 6/18/11 at 9:17am
How can people say he does not have talent?
For me it's all about the voice lol
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