Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
#1Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:57pm
So, I was listening to Broadway XM/Sirius radio on my way to work tonight, and Seth was talking about how last week at his Chatterbox he had Adam Pascal there who said that he had always wanted to play Phantom in Phantom of the Opera but the timing had never worked out and that apparently, in a year, when he is done with the RENT tour, he is going to play Phantom on Broadway...
Why?? Just.. why??
#2re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:58pmWow! He is totally wrong for that part!
Manny2
Stand-by Joined: 7/12/08
#2re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 9:59pm
....yeah, I don't see it.
I mean, it might work, but I guess it's just hard to envision. His emcee was pretty mediocre; it wasn't amazing but it wasn't terrible. I imagine that the phantom will be similar, especially since it's such a demanding role, he's gonna he wiped out!
lstbutifulgrl2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/10/07
#4re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:08pmI love the man dearly, but please no... Adam, just no.
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"I'm a butterfly, trivial and small, and in the greater scheme of things, I don't mean much at all." ~The Story of My Life
"Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss." ~Rent
#5re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:18pm
Not really news.
http://www.broadway.com/Adam-Pascal/broadway_news/550953
I wanted to play the Phantom terribly—I still do actually. I went in and sang for them. I have to say I sang great, but the part is not available; that's unfortunately the situation.
http://www.adam-pascal.com/press/?p=91
To fill his summer after recording an album, Pascal tried out for Broadway’s iconic masked man, the Phantom — “I sang great, I have to say,” he boasts — but the part wasn’t available.
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#6re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:19pm
I was very pleasantly surprised by his Emcee. He wasn't the best to play that role (of the ones I saw, Esparza was far and away the best), but he was pretty damn good.
His Phantom would be interesting, and it would be a welcome change from Howard McGillin
hpeabody930
Featured Actor Joined: 9/8/08
#7re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:20pm
This has been out there for awhile. Bad casting, yes. But definitely no worse than when they cast Paul STanley in the part....
Talk about a mistake.
Manny2
Stand-by Joined: 7/12/08
#8re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:22pm
I just felt that, in comparison to to Hall and Esparza, his Emcee was kinda....dry.
Esparza and Hall were def. the standouts in that production, in terms of the Emcee.
#9re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:27pmI'm hoping he is coming back to Bway, but...please not Phantom!! because we can't see his face!!
fanadu1996
Stand-by Joined: 6/14/08
#10re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:31pmi LOVE that idea!! i would LOVE to see a more "rocky/poppy/contemp" phantom!
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#11re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 10:45pmIs "the part wasn't available" a sugar coated "we don't want to cast you"?
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#12re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:06pmIf Gerard Butler can do it then Adam could totally do it. He has a way more legitimate raspy/rock voice than Butler's sorry attempt.
CurtisTaylorJr2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/17/06
#13re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:44pmThat would be ridiculous, he cannot sing that role the way it's supposed to be sung.
jazzicat
Stand-by Joined: 11/19/07
#14re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:47pmMaybe HE's headed to Rock of Ages?!! OMG
#15re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/5/09 at 11:47pm
Is "the part wasn't available" a sugar coated "we don't want to cast you"?
^That's exactly what I was thinking.
Adam Pascal as the Phantom?
No. Just... no.
Imagine the fangirls... oh god.
jazzicat
Stand-by Joined: 11/19/07
#16re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:03am
you mean phangirls. the likes of which have never seen seen before.
#17re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:09amI meant the fangirls of Adam Pascal.
#18re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:14am
Yeah. "The part is not available?" B.S. There's also the national tour, the London production, and a gazillion other productions of the show around the world.
And no, there should not be a pop/rock singer doing the Phantom. The role calls for a real, trained, legit singer. Gerard Butler already demonstrated this by ruining the film adaptation.
#19re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:21amWhere is a link to his news about joining after the tour? That just sounds like a rumor pulled out of thin air...
"I never had theatre producers run after me. Some people want to make more Broadway shows out of movies. But Elliot and I aren't going to do Batman: The Musical." - Julie Taymor 1999
Manny2
Stand-by Joined: 7/12/08
#20re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:24am
This thread is gonna dye within a couple of weeks, but will be brought up from it's grave within a year.
When that happens, I am goin to laugh hysterically.
#21re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:25am
lol well I mean how am I supposed to link something heard on XM/Sirius radio?? lol
So there is no link for this, but I mean.. its not like Seth didn't say this
#22re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:30am
this could have been the case if ALW had done what they originally had in mind with Phantom and made it into a rock opera. This is why they have the "demo" recording/music video with Steve Harley and SB. With mullets et al!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmI9gAyNPyE
One of my fav characters is Javert. But yeah, me being a woman might make it difficult to be casted... just sayin'!
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#23re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:52amGod no, he doesn't have the voice.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#24re: Adam Pascal in Phantom in a year?
Posted: 1/6/09 at 12:53am
I didn't think Adam was a bad Emcee, he wasn't on my top 5 list but he wasn't on my bottom three either. And actually, I'd probably go see him in phantom. I think it could work if they got a more pop Christine. 
"What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them a thousand times over." The Masked Bandit in THE FALL
