Raúl Esparza to Star in John Doyle-Helmed Company Revival — Page 2

Planning my trip now...i'll be on spring break during that time. its only a 8 hr drive! ha.

I agree with you, Theatreboy. It's really neat with Sweeney, but to do it for another show seems lazy.

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Ok, I'm going. So I have to drive from NYC to Ohio. Ah well, I'm doing it. Spring break means I'll be there for opening night, baby! I love Company and I would drive to Cincinatti just to hear Raul sing 'Being Alive'. Anyone else gonna be there opening night?

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"New York socialites and their instruments." Well apparently I've been attending the wrong parties. That, or Woody Allen movies have really been misinterpreting NY socialites. Perhaps parties have both a coatroom and an saxaphone case closet. Im sorry, i dont mean this as an attack or to be mean-spirited. The term just made me laugh. we'll see how it turns out. too early to judge. those were just my off-the-bat feelings.

I am waiting for Dracula with everyone playing their own instruments. Than again you could have a revival of Oh Calcutta done the same way or didn't they do that in the original production ?

Mull & discuss

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haha, no, I didn't implode. I was at the Rent CD signing.

The chances of getting out there are very, very small for me; I don't think my parents would let me travel halfway across the country to see Raúl, but that is the week of my twentieth birthday, so maybe they'll reconsider. It's okay. He won't be gone forever.

In any event, and in unselfish terms, I'm glad he's got something else lined up so fast, because he should ALWAYS be working.

Good for you, Raúl.

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This is amaaazing for Raul. I'm so happy he got something else so quickly, because as Emcee said, he should ALWAYS be working.

Company + Raul = Wonderousness.

Yesssss. But whyyyy not here. Why.

He has a ridiculous range; he can definitely do it. The only reason for thinking he can't is not liking the sound of his voice ON the higher notes, which is certainly valid.

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Well, I certainly think he has enough sense not to scream a show like Company the way he screamed Rocky Horror or Taboo. He can sing it legit, I'm sure.

But I know some people don't like the wacky vibrato, and that's cool. Either way you slice it, he's a hell of an actor.

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Definitely pro Raúl, but I do agree it's kind of cheap to recycle the instruments thing from Sweeney Todd. I don't really see any justification to have the characters play their own instruments. Plus, doesn't this rule out extensive choreography? I think dancing benefits Company. Also, where Sweeney Todd is loaded with solo numbers, Company is loaded with chorus numbers. Complicated chorus numbers that involve people speaking rapidly on and off. I guess I can see the accompaniment relying on guitar and drums, I just don't hear it sounding very nice in my mind (even in the Sweeney revival, for how cool it was, I missed the big orchestrations). I just don't want to hear a reedy piano backup. And also the subject matter is already so intellectual... I think it's just gonna come off a bit pretentious.

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I was just about the say that.

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I jsut find that there will be many more limits on this than sweeney in terms of choreography and tying up the actors with instruments. I mean Sweeney Todd has much more simpler percussion than Company and Company involves so many actors at once, I can't imagine filling in spaces while one person juggles another thing, I just find this one a little too much. However, I can't complain, its Company, thus my name. However there WILL be a problem if I dont see this come here to N.Y.!

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