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I don't know if anyone's interested... but I saw RENT last year on tour when it came to pittsburgh.. and the dude who played Roger, his name was Constantine something.. he's in a band. Anyway, on American Idol tonight i recognized him... he left his band for the audition and he made it to finals tonight... Simon was the only one who said no... He sang "Cryin" by Aerosmith. I thought it was kinda funny to see him. I really did not like him as Roger though when I saw him, but he was very nice.
How did he get to be Roger? He did not wow me at all.
And we're discussing on the off-topic board if you want to join us.
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Also didn't wow me. I don't really know RENT, but I don't see how he could be that great.
I'd give him a 6
Was he on Broadway? Please say no...
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I don't understand,
I thought you couldn't be on AI if you were in Equity?
I don't know... I still think he wasn't good enough for the tour either
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i saw him in the tour 2 and i saw the name and i was like what? and i went and got my program and i met some people from the tour and he was one of them so i was like ha cool
He's not. He was on the tour of Rent which is non-Equity.
Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
lol i really thought he ruined the show when i saw it. he has a good voice it just didn't sound right to me... i should have went to the hard rock cafe to hear his band though lol
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what's his full name? huh...intersting. Can't exactly picture it. I wanna see what his band has to say
as I said on the other board (just wanted to say heree)... I will stick to the original Roger...
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i thought idol was about finding nobodys who need their big break. i'd say a broadway tour is something.. even if it was non-equity, they still advertised it as the broadway series.
Constantine Maroulis, just to let you know.
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yea, i agree with ivegottabeme, AI's for people who need thier big break. plus he really didnt wow me. i cant believe he was Roger.
I posted this on the Off topic board but since it involves this thread, I shall put it here too:
OMG. That was Constantine from the RENT tour. I HATED him as Roger. He completely ruined that part for me (at that moment. I have Adam Pascal to bring it back to me). When I saw him I was like, "Man, he looks familiar." WOW!
Exactly, spider. Didn't like his Roger AT ALL. There was always something sorta slimy about him... *shudder*
Well, every time he ended a sentence he would make this sorta GRUNT noise. It was horrible. I thought he made Roger some kind of stuck up dude that wanted Mimi for sex. During intermission almost EVERYONE I overheard talking said something bad about him.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
Ya, I brought this up on the American Idol thread.
Man that's sad.
Actually, as wretched as I thought his band footage was, he was my favorite out of everyone they showed tonight. It's something different - everyone else was a dime-a-dozen Usher/Janet wanna-be, and I'm sick of it. We need more raw-sounding people, not another Ruben Studdard.
He looked like the Roger type, actually. I was wondering if, you know, should he become big from this if they'd try to cast him.
They might.. even though I've only heard really bad things about his Roger.
Is he the guy who looked to "thug" to be roger?
What city is Constantine in? I don't want to watch the whole thing.
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