The Chatterbox tonight...My thoughts

have fun seeing our taboo boys! going back to Last Easter on th 10th and Euan at Caligula on the 9th!

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Damn it, Britt! I thought I saw you again, but I wasn't sure if it was you!!! I honestly do mean it when I say, next time.

Well...here's my thoughts on tonights Chatterbox.
The ever oh-so-adorable Euan walked on to the itty bitty stage, and I swear, there was a defening silence of understood "awwwww" from the audience. He's just so damn cute. Before I get into all of this, the one thing I really want to stress, is that I had a wonderful time tonight. I enjoy seeing Euan, and am really looking forward to seeing him in Caligula next week! Here goes...
Okay, so he walks out on stage with a Coke, and makes a joke about not having any alcohol. *roars of laughter* Anyways, as the conversation bit went on, it seemed like they talked A LOT. Please beleive me when I honestly say I really appreciate Euan's talent. He is so easy to listen to! He could probably insult every member of your family PLUS your dog and still you wouldn't care-It has to be the charming accent. I did however, notice some things that really annoyed me about him. Okay, from the very beginning, it seemed like he was bitching and looking for sympathy from the audience. He said he just ran into Raul at the *gasp* Rent auditions. He said he wanted to read for Mark, but they said they already had enough Marks and instead had him read for Angel. Well duh, he has that sweet appeal to him, and his voice would do well with the songs. However, because his heart apparently just wasn't in it, he didn't do a good audition. Then, looking for sympathy from the audience, he says "Raul got to read for Mark." and then does this pouty face and holds the mic out to the audience for everyone to "awww". Yes, poor-pitiful Euan. He also proceeds to tell everyone that he is really greatful to his fans, but sometimes just has a bad night and that sometimes he just wants to get home. Understood. THEN, he later proceeds to complain about his ****-hole of an apartment he is subletting that is infested with roaches and how he hates going home. But then, he complains about how he doesn't want to go back to London because actors aren't paid as well, blah blah blah. I'm not exagerating here. He was constantly bitching, and yes, it was funny, but I kinda got to the point where I was like-"who do you think you are?" I know in this business you have to have a very high opinion of yourself, but gosh, the man does more nagging than my mother. I do have to say, the highlight of the night was when he told the story about accidentaly slinging a potato on a lady's "tit" ( I apologize now in case the word "tit" is a big no-no. His word, not mine)accedintaly and then later ended up spitting in her tea (it could have been coffee, my memory is a bit spacy right now)when she called him a name. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure the moral of his story was to be nice to the wait staff, because they will do horrible things to your food! Anywho, he ended up only singing one song. I guess that's why they talked so much longer. The song..."The Impossible Dream" from La Mancha. I was shocked he chose that song. He nailed it though, it was all very intense-especially when he was looking me right in the eye. Really quite beautiful. Nanny Morton should be proud.
All in all, the guys hysterical. He is however a smart ass with a large vocabulary of curse words. His favorite seems to be the "f" word though and I'm not talking about flying or flute.
I'm sure I'll have more to add on tomorrow, along with my Last Easter review.

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Sorry Emcee for the confusion, It was early and I was tired. It was for the movie!

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Yeah! And I was really shocked too, because last week Raul didn't seem to be all impressed with the directions the movie was headed. But, man would it be awesome to see him on the big screen...

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Not sure how I feel about the movie. It will either be amazing or horrible. So I have mixed feelings. However, I am glad that they are auditioning broadway people for the roles!

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Raul as Mark?

I love him lots, and I have no doubt at all that he could act it incredibly, but I don't think his voice suits Mark, and he does not look like he's in his early twenties. But if they are taking thirty-four year olds, maybe there's a chance of another certain favorite of mine reprising his role for the movie...

Edit- Oh yes, topic. Thanks for sharing, Chrys. I am a bit suprised Euan is like that after hearing what a sweetie he is, but people do have bad days and they go on about things too much. He may look back on it and go, 'Why did I say all that?' Then again, maybe a bit of fame has gone to his head some, who knows?

Updated On: 10/1/04 at 02:45 PM

I could sit and listen to Euan for days on end. When Seth started playing the first notes, and I realized what song Euan was singing, well I near about died. One of my absolute favorites.

He was so cute when he was talking about how badly he wants to play The Childcatcher in CCBB.

I had a great time and look forward to seeing him again next Saturday.

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I have no idea what Euan's housing situation is, but when Taboo first closed he wrote about having "a nice place to live" and how everything was up in the air now, no job, immigration troubles, etc. When he left NY with the Visa problems it seemed like he would be gone a LONG time, so he probably gave his place up. In which case, he may be emotionally comparing his sub-let to his old place. And it might be an especially bitter pill because as it ended up, he only had to leave for ...what...6 weeks????

As I said, I am JUST GUESSING here, but I can see making some pointed, ruthless jokes if that were the back-story.

Sometimes ya just gotta go with the flow, and let the Inner Bitch come out and party ....

After Taboo closed, both Euan and George, continued living in the apartments Rosie had provided, for the originally planned length of time.

Haha, well when I got home I emailed my best friend (Who lives in England) and started telling her how Euan says they're all still bitter about losing the colonies and she wrote back "Well, I can't say he isn't right."

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I agree with him about the sad songs. I think it would be much better. Again, more music his voice would really work well with.

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I love it when he sings Carpenter's songs. He sang one at his cabaret at Joe's Pub over the summer and his voice really is perfect for them. I thought what he said about Karen made a lot of sense, she really never was (as far as we would know) an overly happy woman so the sad songs would be more heartfelt, or more real, coming from her. I mean, I'm not going to lie, I would go no matter whose songs he was going to be singing for an evening, I mean I went to Unplugged just to hear him sing one (FABULOUS) song. I just think him singing The Carpenters would be a fantastic choice and anyone who has heard Euan sing outside of Taboo would know that his voice is perfect for those songs.

Plus, he loves those songs, and whenever someone sings something they love it makes it ten times better anyway.

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