Drew really wasn't all that bad. I expected a trainwreck, but I was pretty pleasantly surprised. No, he's not very good, but the talent he DID have was in singing. He really falters in the acting department, but I won't deny that he sort of can sing. And, it's been way worse. Joey Fatone, anyone?
Oy, I boycotted Rent when Joey Fatone was in it, but accidentally(long story) saw him in LSOH. Oy gavolt. I emphatically cheered when he was eaten. I remember just a dreadful crack during The Meek Shall Inherit...baad experience.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
I'm seeing rent on march 7th i think it is...I'll be seeing one of Drew's last shows..a little sad that it's not the day after his last show or something..but I'll live.
OMG Wing! I was listening to sirius broadway's best and Christine Petty (spelling? sorry!) and she was being sarcastic (as usual but i didn't catch it) and was like "here is this AMAZING singer, she's sung evita, etc etc" and she put on "Don't Cry for me.." and I almost DIED! i was like HUH!??
and all that I could do because of you was talk of love...
I second the motion on Wing. I came home from school one day and my mom was in tears, and she sent me to the site and made me listen to the clips over and over again.
Thank you dotmarie! I almost los t all faith in the posters on BWW.
You people mentioned William Hung and not Wing? For shame!!
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
I want to write music. I want to sit down right now at my piano and write a song that people will listen to and remember and do the same thing every morning...for the rest of my life. - Jonathan Larson. Tick, Tick...BOOM!
CCR was Mary Phagan, yeah. Iola was played by some girl named... Brooke, I want to say, but I'm not sure? And SHE has quite the voice on her.
I hate to say it and make anyone mad, but although I do like Idina's voice sometimes, she does make me say WTF a little, because you'd think she'd be enormously talented with all the people crying over her.
And, Barnaby, a lot of it may have to do with never seeing Sherie live... she's amazing, and I don't think she sounds shrill. If most of your listening is done on the L5Y recording, that could account for it, because her voice is a little thin throughout. Yet, charming.
And I must confess that the first time I saw Daphne in Rocky Horror I had a small "WTF?" moment, but it passed VERY quickly and she's still my favorite.
I totally agree with you about Idina. I just don't get her. I saw her in Rent and have the recording and find her voice very shrill. She was the main reason I didn't go to see Wicked.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Actually, I liked her when I saw her in Rent. But I figured her voice was like that for the part, and so I found it all quite brilliant... then I saw/heard her in other things and realized her voice was STILL like that... and I was very disturbed.
Ann Reinking (I love her though, I really really do) Carol Channing Elaine Strich Frances Rufelle (makes me want to die) Colm Wilkinson (WTF?!)
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
dude, brooke sunny moore? she's a lot better than a "brooke somebody." however one of the more horrendous voices i've had to endure was the lady that sang "another hundred people" at the kennedy center's company. it was so bloody aweful and shrill... i thought wing had taken the stage.
