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Nov. 18th, 2006 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewingedwordJekyll and Hyde! *jumps up and down a bit* I wanted to do that last night, but fangirl jumping is hard in three-inch heels, so I had to be dignified.
It was good. It was remarkably, unexpectedly, delightfully fantastic. I don't even want to know how much work stagecrew put into the set, which had all these rotating sections of wall and doors and a balcony level that could be accessed by three staircases and a ladder, but it looked amazing. The quality of the instrumentals was somewhat damaged by the fact that band and orchestra get along like cats and dogs; in their defense, there was a piano and a podium splitting the pit in half, so they couldn't even see each other. For the most part it was good, and of course it's a rather complex score, but I've enough of an ear that the occasional off-key drone made me twitchy.
The guy playing Jekyll and Hyde is a bass, which was a bit strange to me; he has an amazing range, but not a lot of stamina on the higher notes, and his songs in general tended to feel faster-paced and more... manic? than Anthony Warlow's version. It was in the lower-range songs that he showed off his gorgeous, deep, rich-chocolate voice, particularly in the duets. And whatever few weaknesses his voice may have had were more than made up for by his acting, which was impressive- he was never the least bit stiff or wooden, and he pulled off Confrontation with panache.
I know the girls playing Lucy and Emma, which was a bit strange, though no more so than Lucy's occasional disconcerting flash of braces (poor girl). Lucy is a tiny slip of a thing, so I was rather skeptical, but her songs- particularly "A New Life", which I'd always thought somewhat dull- were some of the highlights of the show, and she belted like a pro. She could have used a bit more attitude at times, but even so. Emma is pretty and quiet and shy, and sits two rows over in my english class, and I never knew but she has an exquisite pure voice that is sometimes weak but always true, if that makes any sense. I think my favorite part of the whole show was the end of "In His Eyes", which seemed normal until Lucy would belt a little louder and then Emma would trill a little higher, and it was this beautiful funny one-upmanship.
Surprise love of the night? Utterson. I have random mad love for that man. He was the only one whose acting really stood up to Jekyll's- not just stood up, but meshed, so you could honestly believe that they were good friends. He made me love "Your Work and Nothing More" so much more than I thought was possible.
The guy playing Jekyll and Hyde is a bass, which was a bit strange to me; he has an amazing range, but not a lot of stamina on the higher notes, and his songs in general tended to feel faster-paced and more... manic? than Anthony Warlow's version. It was in the lower-range songs that he showed off his gorgeous, deep, rich-chocolate voice, particularly in the duets. And whatever few weaknesses his voice may have had were more than made up for by his acting, which was impressive- he was never the least bit stiff or wooden, and he pulled off Confrontation with panache.
I know the girls playing Lucy and Emma, which was a bit strange, though no more so than Lucy's occasional disconcerting flash of braces (poor girl). Lucy is a tiny slip of a thing, so I was rather skeptical, but her songs- particularly "A New Life", which I'd always thought somewhat dull- were some of the highlights of the show, and she belted like a pro. She could have used a bit more attitude at times, but even so. Emma is pretty and quiet and shy, and sits two rows over in my english class, and I never knew but she has an exquisite pure voice that is sometimes weak but always true, if that makes any sense. I think my favorite part of the whole show was the end of "In His Eyes", which seemed normal until Lucy would belt a little louder and then Emma would trill a little higher, and it was this beautiful funny one-upmanship.
Surprise love of the night? Utterson. I have random mad love for that man. He was the only one whose acting really stood up to Jekyll's- not just stood up, but meshed, so you could honestly believe that they were good friends. He made me love "Your Work and Nothing More" so much more than I thought was possible.
May be wandering over to a friend's house Sunday to see Rocky Horror Picture Show for the first time, joy! I never meant to have a social life, you know. It just crept up on me somehow.
Odd moment; I was e-mailing a friend, and she mentioned that being friends with me was like being friends with a bunch of different people, and she never knew which one would show up on any given day. Hmm.
