Michael Cerveris = SWEENEY TODD????? — Page 3

It took me a while to get used to Cerveris in the Passion concert.
Even when I did, I wasn't hugely affected by his performance.
He was A LOT better than Jere Shea, I'll give him that, but there was this timidity than I really hated about his performance.

Then again, I'm not a huge fan of the character Georgio.

Cerveris' accent and singing in Assassins irked me greatly.
It was so detached, and a bit unemotional in my opinion.
However, he did prove himself at least a good singer in the Passion concert.

Sweeney must be sincerely and sweetly sinister, some qualities than I can see in Cerveris.
But there needs to an edge, and an invulnerability that is hard to achieve, and that I don't see Cerveris pulling off too well.

I think Cerveris, in the same vane as Len Cariou (utter brilliance himself), has that true bari-tenor voice that Sweeney needs.

Hearn was too much of a baritone, and he oversang sometimes.
Although I never saw him, I prefer to listen to Cariou singing it.

But back to Cerveris - I can see being good, but not up to the level of Cariou, or even Hearn.

This is all IMHO, of course.

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