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Posted: 6/26/09 at 12:31am
I'll try to keep it short.
Saw it for the fourth time this evening and really fell in love with it all over again. This was my third time seeing Kiril (I still haven't seen Trent) and he was wonderful as usual even though you can hear his voice teetering on the edge of cracking every now and then (puberty's a bitch). His acting was absolutely superb and his dancing was, of course, spectacular.
The rest of the cast is just fantastic. The thing I love most about this ensemble and this entire cast is that you feel EVERY character's story through their performance. Everyone from the ballet girls to Billy has a story and they each convey it and you feel their pain, anguish, hurt, hope, joy, and fears in very different ways.
My biggest revelation of the evening was in Gregory Jbara's performance. I thought he was wonderful the last three times I saw him but tonight, I just got it. I got why he won the Tony. I got why he (as he mentioned in his Tony speech) sacrificed so much to play this role. He is just fantastic, doing so much more with the role than the book even gives him. He moved me to tears and laughter, sometimes at the same time, throughout the show.
I just really love this show. And I love N2N as well, so it's hard for me to say which I would vote for had I been a Tony voter but I have to say I'm perfectly okay with BILLY taking Best Musical and as many awards as it did. It's really a masterpiece (as is N2N), in my opinion. BILLY will play the Imperial for years and years and it's the first show in a while that is destined to do so that deserves it in every way.
Saw it for the fourth time this evening and really fell in love with it all over again. This was my third time seeing Kiril (I still haven't seen Trent) and he was wonderful as usual even though you can hear his voice teetering on the edge of cracking every now and then (puberty's a bitch). His acting was absolutely superb and his dancing was, of course, spectacular.
The rest of the cast is just fantastic. The thing I love most about this ensemble and this entire cast is that you feel EVERY character's story through their performance. Everyone from the ballet girls to Billy has a story and they each convey it and you feel their pain, anguish, hurt, hope, joy, and fears in very different ways.
My biggest revelation of the evening was in Gregory Jbara's performance. I thought he was wonderful the last three times I saw him but tonight, I just got it. I got why he won the Tony. I got why he (as he mentioned in his Tony speech) sacrificed so much to play this role. He is just fantastic, doing so much more with the role than the book even gives him. He moved me to tears and laughter, sometimes at the same time, throughout the show.
I just really love this show. And I love N2N as well, so it's hard for me to say which I would vote for had I been a Tony voter but I have to say I'm perfectly okay with BILLY taking Best Musical and as many awards as it did. It's really a masterpiece (as is N2N), in my opinion. BILLY will play the Imperial for years and years and it's the first show in a while that is destined to do so that deserves it in every way.
Updated On: 6/26/09 at 12:31 AM
