What is with Colm Wilkinson?
What is with Colm Wilkinson?
phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#0What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 4:13amWhat the hell is the big deal with this man? His voice sounds so awful and strained, and it's like he has the inability to sing legato. I got the Canadian Cast POTO today, and i am not even keeping it. Can any music theatre star sing worse than this?
#1re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 4:15amhe was actually my favorite phantom before Gerry. he's still my favorite stage phantom aside from the 1992 Japanese cast... I like my phantoms to have deeper voices I guess... not that Crawford's is bad I still love the London CD too...
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Featured Actor Joined: 3/15/05
#2re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 4:16am
I think he is great!
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phantom_tenor
Leading Actor Joined: 1/11/05
#3re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 4:22amhe somehow works as valjean. His phantom is just so incredibly bad though!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/04
#4re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 5:11amHis accent, in Les Mis, drives me insane. I can send it up so well. I just wish he would sing it all properly
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 7:17amHe is horrible on the J/H concept album
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#6re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 7:17am
I'd rather hear Colm Wilkinson sing PHANTOM than I would want to hear Michael Crawford.
Then again, I'd rather hear just about ANYBODY sing the role other than Michael Crawford.
Of course, if I really had my way, I wouldn't hear PHANTOM at all ... ever again!
I agree about CW's accent, too. His phrasing and diction are completely annoying. He does have some mighty vocal power coming out of him, though. (To give credit where it is due.)
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Stand-by Joined: 11/5/04
#7re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 9:48amHis diction makes me want to claw my eyes out, too, but there's this extreme emotion in his voice when he sings that is hard to match. Of course, that's true for most actors in musical theatre, but he's just so raw and extreme about it.
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#8re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:53pmHe creeps me out. In voice and general aura.
#9re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 12:57pmOh thank god, I'm not the only one out there. For some reason his VJ works but his phantom is horrific. I thought I was the only one who found him waaaaaaaaaaaaaay overrated.
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Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#10re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:11pm
I've only heard him sing Music of the Night, in terms of Phantom stuff, but I think he's great as Valjean. The fact that he's playing opposite an actress (in Phantom) who once played his adopted daughter (in Les Mis), though, creeps me out a little...
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#11re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 1:22pmI actually really enjoy his Phantom (and of course his Valjean is definitive). His voice has an ethereal quality that lends to the role well.
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#12re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:05pmLove Colm WIlkinson. After growing up on Michael Crawford as the Phantom, I recently discovered Colm a couple of years ago (now my favorite Phantom). I think his voice drips with emotion and his highs are fantastic....
#13re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:35pmWhen Colm is good, he's amazing. When he's bad, watch out.
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#14re: What is with Colm Wilkinson?
Posted: 4/24/05 at 2:47pm
Well said magic.
I have trouble seeing him as the Phantom and as J&H because, well, he's old, and it's kinda nasty.
I don't really like him in general, he really good in some spots as Valjean, but not that great in Phantom. (He did alright in the Poto bits in Hey r. Producer though).
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