I REBLOG THIS EVERY SINGLE TIME IT COMES ON MY DASH AN I HAVE LOVED IT EVERY TIME
I saw this show live on Shakespeare’s birthday and it was amazing!
They always leave out my favorite part of the song:
SO YOU WRITE DOWN A WORD
BUT ITS NOT THE RIGHT WORD
SO YOU TRY A NEW WORD
BUT YOU HATE THE NEW WORD
AND YOU NEED A GOOD WORD
BUT YOU CANT FIND THE WORD
OH WHERE IS IT
WHAT IS IT
WHAT IS IT
WHERE IS IT-
*INCOHERENT SCREAMING*
@petermorwood on the off-chance you haven’t seen this yet
Like it…
And I’d like to have heard the missing bit as well, an evocation of those times when neither dictionary nor thesaurus nor synonym finder are of any help at all…
I met up with Adam Pascal at the St. James Theatre where he, along with the rest of the talented cast, welcome theatergoers to the Renaissance nightly in the tongue-in-cheek Broadway show Something Rotten. Although the Broadway show will be ending its run on January 1st, Adam, along with Rob McClure and Josh Grisetti, will be taking the show on tour. I met up with Adam Pascal in his dressing room at the theatre. He’s still as good-looking as he was in his Rent days, and was introspective and thoughtful as we covered a wide variety of topics.
Is there something that you bring with you to every dressing room? A crossword puzzle book. I’m obsessed with crossword puzzles. I find them very soothing and meditative. I’m not someone who puts up pictures and moves into dressing rooms. If it’s a good part, I’m not in the dressing room too much!
Hamilton is such a craze and it brings me back to Rent and the phenomena surrounding it, for different reasons than Hamilton, but similar in the sense of it being a movement.
There are such strong similarities. If anything, Hamilton is a bigger phenomenon because of social media and the internet. In 1995, social media didn’t exist. So our show basically was a word of mouth thing. Hamilton went nuclear much quicker because of social media. And yeah, I know some people in the show, and I’ve definitely watched them and was nostalgic about my experience. I was a little envious that they were able to have this type of experience without the incredibly heartbreaking loss that we endured, losing Jonathan Larson the opening night of our dress rehearsal off-Broadway. Our experience was, and always will be, colored by Jonathan dying right when this thing was taking off. I envy them not having this heaviness surrounding them, and being able to enjoy the experience without the sadness we had to deal with.
Something Rotten ends its Broadway runs January 1st. What’s next for you? Me, Rob and Josh are going out on tour. We start immediately, on Jan 10th, and the following week we officially open in Boston.
See Adam Pascal in Something Rotten on Broadway, or on tour early next year. Get tickets here.
SO YOU WRITE DOWN A WORD but it’s not the right wordSO YOU TRY A NEW WORD but you hate the new wordAND YOU NEED A GOOD WORDbut you can’t find the wordOH WHERE IS IT WHAT IS IT WHAT IS IT WHERE IS IT BLEHBLEHFBLEHBLEHBLEAHHAHAAHHAUGHHH
casting director: okay, you can begin your audition whenever you are ready
me: *deep breath*
me: Welcome to the ‘90s — the 1590s — long before the dawn of premium tickets, star casting and reminders to turn off your cell phones. Brothers Nick (Brian d’Arcy James) and Nigel Bottom (John Cariani) are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rockstar known as “The Bard” (Christian Borle). When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s very first MUSICAL! But amidst the scandalous excitement of Opening Night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self… and all that jazz.
