AND Carolee Carmello will stay on as Lovett! Also, we saw David Michael Garry, who will be filling in between Norm Lewis and Hugh Panero. He was EXCELLENT.
Small world, but Norm and Hugh co-starred in ''Side Show.''
Hugh does a lot of concert work with symphonies nowdays, but I'm thrilled he'll be back on a New York stage where he belongs. His last Broadway credit was ''Lestat'' (2006). For our ''Leading Men II'' concert for Broadway Cares, we asked Hugh to sing ''Right Before My Eyes'' from ''Lestat.'' And he sang it beautifully. In his intro, Hugh said he planned to tell some ''horrible Elton [John] stories,'' but instead he paid a touching tribute to a Broadway colleague, J.C. Sheets, who played Jean Valjean in ''Les Miserables.''
Wayman_Wong said: "For our ''Leading Men II'' concert for Broadway Cares, we asked Hugh to sing ''Right Before My Eyes'' from ''Lestat.'' And he sang it beautifully. In his intro, Hugh said he planned to tell some ''horrible Elton [John] stories,'' but instead he paid a touching tribute to a Broadway colleague, J.C. Sheets, who played Jean Valjean in ''Les Miserables.''
My bad. I was going by IBDB, which listed ''Lestat'' as his last Broadway show. Because Hugh had done ''Phantom'' pre-''Lestat,'' you had to scroll further down to see the more recent dates as to when he returned to ''Phantom.'' Thus, my confusion.
MarkBearSF said: "AND Carolee Carmello will stay on as Lovett! Also, we saw David Michael Garry, who will be filling in between Norm Lewis and Hugh Panero. He was EXCELLENT.
I majorly splurged and bought tickets about a month ago in the front row right in front of the pie counter (when I thought I'd be seeing Norm). I'll be seeing Mr. Garry, and it's great to hear a positive review of his performance, since I was so looking forward to seeing Norm! Could you elaborate a bit on his performance/singing? What did you especially love? You can PM me if you'd like. Thanks!
newintown said: "I would imagine they'll have to transpose much of the score; I don't think he has those low notes.
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Sweeney isn't a role/show that people transpose - I have to assume he had the notes or wouldn't have been cast. Sure, there might be a few options to bring notes here or there higher but they won't transpose songs into fully new keys.
I don't think a musical theatre score exists that doesn't get transposed at some time or other. I have personally seen a Sweeney (regional) that took several songs up one step or two (including "Epiphany," "Pretty Women," and "My Friends".
Distinctive wrote "newintown said: "And they transposed the Phantom material down for Lewis."
They didn't, actually. It was definitely a stretch for him."
I can only go on what the MD at the time said, which was that transposing and re-orchestrating did happen. So... there you have it, for what it's worth.