'Saturday Night Live': Paul Mescal slays it ... in 'Gladiator II: The Musical'

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 8:53am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC77saWLRMk

[JasonC3]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 9:02am

Loved the LMM "rap" and the closing Wicked riff.

The Paul Mescal is Daddy Please Don't Destroy video was also pretty good.

Updated On: 12/8/24 at 09:02 AM

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 9:04am

That’s Franklin Shepherd, Inc.

[DramaTeach]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 9:10am

It’s perfect. Makes fun of both Gladiator and Wicked, and Mescal is very game. He can also carry a tune and has talked about his love of musicals before. Hope one day he gets his own real one.

[bwayobsessed]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 9:34am

DramaTeach said: "It’s perfect. Makes fun of both Gladiator and Wicked, and Mescal is very game. He can also carry a tune and has talked about his love of musicals before. Hope one day he gets his own real one."

He’s in Merrily which we will see in a number of years

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 10:06am

Those were terrific.  I was just thinking the other day about him hosting SNL.  Sorry to have missed it.  

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 10:21am

That was actually funny!

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 1:25pm

This is the best SNL sketch I’ve seen since LiMu Emu and Doug was cut for time. I was laughing my head off last night. 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 1:36pm

dramamama611 said: "Those were terrific. I was just thinking the other day about him hosting SNL. Sorry to have missed it."

Streaming now on Peacock plus all the sketches including his opening monologue are all on YouTube. 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 2:44pm

That was really, really good. Alarming how much the songs sound like generic 21st century musical theatre songs.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 2:47pm

Also: James Austin Johnson has a very good singing voice (not just here but he sang on a talkshow one time in a better-than-average character baritone voice). Maybe he can do a summer run of a musical sometime or an Encores production...

And his Bob Dylan is as brilliant as his Trump.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 4:14pm

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "That was really, really good. Alarming how much the songs sound like generic 21st century musical theatre songs."

This is called pastiche and it WAS deliberate and playing satire to the cringe-worthy contemporary musical theater songwriting and composing these days.  

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 8:37pm

I'm aware of what pastiche is!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm saying that a lot of modern musical theatre sounds like a parody of itself.

[darquegk]

Posted: 12/8/24 at 9:53pm

James Austin Johnson appears to be the theme singer for 'Tis the Grinch (the podcast where he interviews celebrities in character as the Grinch), and he can more than adequately carry a tune, plus work in a variety of different vocal styles.

[Wayman_Wong]

Posted: 12/9/24 at 2:11am

For the record, Paul Mescal made his stage debut when he was 16 in his Irish school's production of ''The Phantom of the Opera,'' playing the Phantom. Below, is a snippet of Mescal as the Phantom in an Irish Times video. And there's even a video of that 2012 production on YouTube; occasionally, the sound is out of sync, but Mescal didn't lip-sync; he sang it all live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAofSJzJC8M

Updated On: 12/9/24 at 02:11 AM