adam pascal broadway.com interview

[moosepower93]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 11:39pm

i found this kind of amusing considering he is back in rent. this was from a ask a star interview.


From MGabe:
Absolutely loved you in Aida,but do you think you would ever go back to play Roger in Rent. As an avid fan of the show, I think it's losing it's spark. You would definitely bring that back!

Adam responds:
Thank you, but no. I won't be playing Roger again. Well, maybe if all 15 of us [original cast members] magically came together to do it again. But it would have to be a special situation.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 11:43pm

He also said he wouldn't do Aida again.

... but really, that was HOW many years ago? Circumstances change, people change their minds, etc.

For what it's worth, I think a more recent interview referenced this, and his answer was that he considered the chance to work with Anthony again the kind of "special situation" he was talking about. Does anyone remember where that was?

[Craig]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 11:49pm

He also has said in BWW's video interview and elsewhere - that one of the things that held him back was "ego". Now, like Anthony, I don't think either would do it alone - but with both of them together, why not?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 11:49pm

That interview was also before the movie, when only 6 of them went back.

[Midoria]

Posted: 8/12/07 at 11:57pm

Never say "Never"!

[Ariella]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:19am

Did he say he wouldn't go back on one of Seth's chatterboxes? I can't remember.

He's proved himself wrong several times.

[MotorTink]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:21am

In the Cabaret Chatterbox he said something along the lines that he wouldn't go back because it was too soon, or something along those lines, but that was 4 years ago. But he did say he would never go back to Aida, and he went back less than a year later. But I think we have all had those moments.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:24am

Heh, yeah, Seth asked if he'd ever go back (to both), and without blinking an eye, Adam said no. He said he was too old for Rent. I'm not sure what he said about Aida in that particular interview, but I remember him saying somewhere that he felt like he was too young to go doubling back at that stage in his career. But, the Chatterbox interview was done when he was in Cabaret, which, believe it or not, was nearly four years ago.

[misschung]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 10:40am

Emcee, I know Anthony mentioned something to that effect on his myspace:

The first thing, and it's the one that's been causing the most rumors to fly, is that Adam Pascal and I will be going back into the Broadway production of Rent later this summer. Yep, it's true. I've always said it would take some extraordinary circumstances to bring me back to the show, (because many people over the years have asked me if I would go back), and I consider the opportunity to be on stage with Adam again to be a big time extraordinary circumstance. In all my years of being in this business, (and we're talking over 25 years now), I've rarely felt the kind of connection on stage that I do with Adam. We just click, and I think it will be amazing to get to work with him in that environment again.

[me2]

Posted: 8/13/07 at 9:53pm

That's what I like about people. They learn and grow. they change for the better. I really liked Pascal's newer Broadway.com interview because it shows a maturity and warmth lacking in interviews from his younger years.
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