Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
#1Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 7:53pmI'm seeing N2N on sunday and I wanted to know how good Aaron is. I've seen Kyle Dean Massey and thought he was brilliant. I'm sure Aaron's great if not better but I just wanna know what people think.
#2re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 7:54pmDoes it matter? Are you going to back out NOW if he isn't as good?
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
MusicSnob1
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/09
#3re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 7:56pm
Let's compare, shall we?
When I think about you, I touch myself.
#4re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:02pm
To be fair can they both be shirtless?
I've got Aaron (HA HA! I wish!) someone needs to post a shirtless Kyle picture.
#5re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:15pm
I went to see N2N expecting Aaron and actually saw Kyle and I have to say I LOVE Kyle!
Hollywood the Write Way
Updated On: 11/22/09 at 08:15 PM
#6re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:18pm
I think they're both great, but if you held a gun to my head I'd choose Aaron.
Updated On: 11/22/09 at 08:18 PM
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#8re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 8:54pmAaron owns and embodies the role in a way that Kyle doesn't, but Kyle was good too.
#9re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 9:41pmI loved both of them but if I had to chose one it would be Aaron.
BillFinn
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/03
#10re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 9:55pmEach prince more handsomer than the other...
Bill Finn rocks. Woot.
#11re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 10:59pmI think Aaron is an alright performer, but everyone hypes him up to be this star and I just don't feel that way about him. I would have to say Kyle was a more interesting performer to watch and I find Aaron overacting at times and singing with weird vowels. Oh being a performer watching other performers can be brutal sometimes, we're so catty.
#12re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:31pmKyle looks taller, so he will show more skin when he takes his shirt of as his Torso and Legs will be longer. Therefore, Kyle is better.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#13re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/22/09 at 11:48pmI saw Kyle. He was really good. =)
#14re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 12:17amI think Kyle and Aaron should get a room together and have a good time of it.
#15re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 12:18am
Kyle could teach Aaron what it really feels like for him to be "Alive".
"Come closer
Come closer
..
You know me
So show me
..
If you climb on my back then we both can fly"
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 11/23/09 at 12:18 AM
#16re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 1:06am
I think Kyle and Aaron should get a room together and have a good time of it.
Hot damn! Wouldn't that be amazing?!
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#17re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 3:33amI saw them both and I liked Kyle a lot more than Aaron. I saw them both as Fiyero in Wicked and thought the same thing too(not that that matters...LOL).
Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!
#18re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 11:18amI've seen both of them and both were very good. If i HAD to choose I would pick Aaron.
"It's about the Benjamins, not the Bernsteins."-CapnHook
froggy2
Featured Actor Joined: 7/16/06
#19re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 12:24pm
To me, Kyle was like Aaron-lite. Trying really hard to emulate the performance but not quite getting it.
(I know plenty of people that love him, though!)
masb19872
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/06
#20re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 7:49pm
I like them both, but prefer Kyle. Aaron seems to leave character when he's not in the spotlight, which annoys me, and I thought Kyle was stronger vocally. I wouldn't complain about seeing either, though, both are good.
Make up your own mind when you see Aaron, though.
#21re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 10:28pm^Funny, I have the exact opposite opinion. I think Aaron is significantly better vocally and I was often drawn to him when he wasn't the focus of the scene because he was so engaged and in the moment the whole time.
roll*in*the*hay
Swing Joined: 1/7/08
#22re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/23/09 at 10:53pm
"I find Aaron overacting at times and singing with weird vowels."
At least the weird vowels part... wouldn't that make him doubly as convincing as Alice Ripley's son? I love them both but you've got to admit that Alice pronounces things really strangely when she sings.
#23re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 1:02amHaving seen both, I have to go with Aaron. The smoothness of his voice alone to me screams the part of Gabe. I liked Kyle but I really felt like he was...well...subbing for Aaron. I didn't feel half as connected to him as I did when Aaron was in it. I think Kyle's very good don't get me wrong, I liked him, but I feel like Aaron gives a far more satisfying performance and I have to add myself to what Elphaba3 said, I thought he was always engaged and you were drawn to him.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#24re: Next to Normal: Kyle or Aaron?
Posted: 11/24/09 at 8:13am
POSSIBLE SPOILER:
As I said, I thought they were both great. I felt that Kyle's approach was a little different, a little warmer, which made his reconciliation scene with his father at the end more moving to me.
Each one highlighted different facets of the character. And that's good.
Updated On: 11/24/09 at 08:13 AM
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