Raul Esparza in Company

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Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:11pm

I'm thinking about going to see it memorial weekend and was wondering if Raul is usually there for the matinees?

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"And I feel it move me Like a fire deep inside Something bursting me wide open Impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying Flying like a bird Like electricity Electricity" - Electricity from Billy Elliot The Musical

#2

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:31pm

Yes, he has an excellent track record.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#3

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:51pm

Not only that, but he's Cuban AND from Miami!

Just remember to call him Raulito if you stage door afterwards.

#4

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:56pm

He looks possessed in that picture.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#5

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 3:57pm

Oh that pic is all kinds of happiness.

#6

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 8:54pm

That shirt needs to be burned.

Definitely see COMPANY -

Updated On: 5/6/07 at 08:54 PM

#7

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 8:59pm

he looks stoned in that picture. What the heck kind of mural is that?

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#8

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:03pm

The mural is a depiction of Varadero, a coastal providence on the island of Cuba. It's beaches are the most famous on the island.

#9

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:08pm

thanks very much guys :) haha, Raulito? we're definitely gonna stage door, but idk about Raulito, lol. When was that picture from?

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"And I feel it move me Like a fire deep inside Something bursting me wide open Impossible to hide And suddenly I'm flying Flying like a bird Like electricity Electricity" - Electricity from Billy Elliot The Musical

#10

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:14pm

he is so beautiful.


I loved him before, but being front row at Company I litterly had a fan girl obsession within the first 2 minutes...must. have. your. children.


lol..jk...sorta

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#11

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:19pm

I like that poster!

I just realized that I don't have the Company souvenir program thing. I need to order that asap

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

#12

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:20pm

Well I'll leave him for all of you, but I gotta say, it's hard to be hot in a show like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But Raul was hot in a show like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

#13

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:21pm

That picture is from this article, which was written way back in 2003:

Click me.

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#14

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:32pm

of course you have the link! hehe

aw man, the video isnt working for me.

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

#15

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:35pm

I'm a super-fast clicker like that.

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#16

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:38pm

You are like the Raul reference librarian

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

#17

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:40pm

Actually, the picture is just so frightfully unflattering, that I can't HELP remembering which article it goes with.

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#18

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:58pm

Again...he's Cuban AND from Miami.

I was also born and raised in Miami, so that photo says it all about Raul E. Esparza.

In every way.

As they say in Dubai: you can take the Cuban outta Miami, but you can't take the Miami outta the Cuban.

I'm just curious as to where he now gets his morning cortadito and croquetas with crackers in NYC.

#19

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 9:59pm

now there's a stagedoor question :)

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go --doesn't it?

#20

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:03pm

I love his perforamnce in Company so much I kinda wish we could transplant him into the Hal Prince/Aronson/Bennett production (not that I don't thinkt eh Doyle one is an interesting and worthile version but...)

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#21

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:11pm

His performance would never fit in the original production because his and the director's choices are completely different from the text.

And Michael Bennett and Hal Prince would never put up with him.
(not that they, are, or were saints)

#22

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:34pm

Heh, what's with the repetition? It's common knowledge. The fact that I (and some others) happen to think it's not the best-looking of him has nothing to do with not understanding its cultural significance, or the importance thereof. I don't like, think it's unflattering because of that stuff... I didn't mean to offend, or anything, if I did.

And yes, his Bobby would stick out like a sore thumb (in a bad way) in the original. Yikes.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#23

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:36pm

It would have to be changed a bit for the original production--but how is his performance "completely different" than the text>?>

#24

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:39pm

I'm lazy, but there are a bunch of threads that go into it in pretty good depth. Raúl's interpretation embodies the revival's whole really dark, distant, somewhat cold aesthetic, which is very different from the feel of the original, from what I understand.

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A work of art is an invitation to love.

#25

re: Raul Esparza in Company

Posted: 5/6/07 at 10:45pm

I repeat.
"Would you let him take your kids to the zoo oo?"
"Who cheers us up when we're blue ue?"

Not that depressed sarcastic drunk.

They went in a different direction in this production and a lot of people like it.

But to me, it goes against the script.

And that scream at the end, before BEING ALIVE is like, WTF?
Yes, he has reached a moment but it is not a Primal Scream thing.
IMO.