#51
Posted: 6/5/07 at 11:09pm
No there were others.. Brent? The Murphy Brown/Company guy (man I'm bad at names)? At least a few other people (besides Danielle) weren't in the show at the time, I know the SOndheim Review had a big article about the filming back when I still subscribed--but my back issues aren't with me.
DId critics give Mandy a hard time with Garden? I think he's great on the cast album... (yes, accent aside). But I really don't get how anyone but the most hardcore fan could appreciate him in Follies--on the concert DVD/making of he comes off as infuriating.
The Anthony Newley comparison is so apt though--I noticed that when I saw his Ed Sullivan performance.
Ray what do you mean about Jane Krakowski, et all, being Sondheim protogees? I admit my Neil thing is biased--on the CD I find his appraoch to the Baladeer in particular wrong, but I am overly used to the offBroadway recording and never saw him live.
As for John Barrowman--I like him in Tochwood/Who like I said, and saw and liked him on stage in London in Beauty and the Beast and Sunset Blvd (even if he was a bit too put together and smilie to be a truly credible Joe) but for some reason as he gets more successful he comes off as more and more Tom Cruise perfect annoying to me, (and even in Puttin git Together there ar emoments wher eyou wonder if he understands the song at all). To be honest that bland extreme handsomeness kinda works for Bobby (at least the non Raul version) so I can see Sondheim praising it.
(I admi to unfairly being more unimpressed with John after seeing his concert, still up on the websection, at Kennedy Center during the Company run where he sang his favorite songs which include an embarassing sign language take on Light of the Silvery Moon and a VERY amusingly sincere version of Enrique's Hero)
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DId critics give Mandy a hard time with Garden? I think he's great on the cast album... (yes, accent aside). But I really don't get how anyone but the most hardcore fan could appreciate him in Follies--on the concert DVD/making of he comes off as infuriating.
The Anthony Newley comparison is so apt though--I noticed that when I saw his Ed Sullivan performance.
Ray what do you mean about Jane Krakowski, et all, being Sondheim protogees? I admit my Neil thing is biased--on the CD I find his appraoch to the Baladeer in particular wrong, but I am overly used to the offBroadway recording and never saw him live.
As for John Barrowman--I like him in Tochwood/Who like I said, and saw and liked him on stage in London in Beauty and the Beast and Sunset Blvd (even if he was a bit too put together and smilie to be a truly credible Joe) but for some reason as he gets more successful he comes off as more and more Tom Cruise perfect annoying to me, (and even in Puttin git Together there ar emoments wher eyou wonder if he understands the song at all). To be honest that bland extreme handsomeness kinda works for Bobby (at least the non Raul version) so I can see Sondheim praising it.
(I admi to unfairly being more unimpressed with John after seeing his concert, still up on the websection, at Kennedy Center during the Company run where he sang his favorite songs which include an embarassing sign language take on Light of the Silvery Moon and a VERY amusingly sincere version of Enrique's Hero)
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I'm actually not sure if she ever uses it in real life but there ya go. 
