We're not gonna pay rent
Actually, I'm paying rent. Can't afford to buy an apartment. However. I'm with here with Adam Pascal. No, it's not the other video
I made, but he is- reveal it
I'm wearing the same shirt coincidentally enough since the last time Seth
And I did a little thing like this
two months ago has not changed his shirt
It has been washed oh, yeah
My point is this: so Adam's about to start in Memphis and I have a thousand things to say first of all he sounds like
He also sounds like Bea Arthur and Carol Channing, but it's also that Julie Andrews. It's a crazy combination of ranges
It's the highest yet the lowest voice okay. So here are all the things I have to say. Now a lot of people
do not know what is one of your dream roles and Adam Pascal?
One of my dream roles is to play the
phantom in Phantom of the Opera.
Wouldn't he be great actually sexy phantom
Maybe I'll be Christine! wig me um the point is so what I wanted to do is
What I want to do is there's a video
From Memphis, and I have two issues with the video. A) he does not do the sassy riff, you know the "Memphis lives
in me" he doesn't do that riff at the end of the video that's circulating right now. Why did you not do that riff here?
You know it was I had my put in- I don't want to make excuses
I had my put in yesterday and this this precedent was right after the put in, I just read
He doesn't need an excuse. He was tired!
I ran out of steam
He ran out of steam he did a whole put in! So the point is he doesn't do the sassy riff
But on top of that he does something that bothers me very much. He modifies the vowel
You know that pop singers like-
and it was a big mistake
Now why was it a mistake? Because he goes Memphis lives in may. The month of May? Why is it a big mistake?
It's it turns out to be a mistake because when you have to hit a note that's at the way top of your range
Enunciating the proper vowel in the proper way is going to help you get that note
So me is actually better than may
so me, hitting the e is much
Easier to hit than A and open yes, you know oh
the lusty month of....anybody? no?
Anyway, the point is so what I'd like to do since these Playbill Obsessed! videos are limited on time
We're going to combine his dream role
With the ending of Memphis that was not there.
Can I clarify? It's a role I want to play
It's not a dream role. Oh, I I just got to be clear here
I don't want these- I don't want the the
Phantom people to take advantage of me when they eventually come to me and want to hire me know that
They can pay me anything they want cuz it's my dream role. It's not. Buck up
You hear what I'm saying?
Okay, so here we go
Let your mind start a journey
through a strange
New World
purge your thoughts of the life you knew before
Let your soul take you where you long to be
Only then will you belong to me
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication
Grasp me, trust me, savor each sensation
Let the dream begin, let
your darker side give in to the power of the music that I write
I have to modulate at this moment to make it all work.
The power of the music
of the
night in me
Okay
now
That's amazing
Now what I also need to say is the following
So I did this Chess concert with Adam for the Actor's Fund, he came over to my apartment at
11 AM in the morning and sang Pity the Child and literally was just hitting C's
But clearly not warmed up and just like "What? What's the big deal?"
So I can't do that anymore, okay?
Okay
Regardless. He can. But the point is what makes me crazy about that song is the horribly horribly tight
small vowel just in case you said oh
There's so many w words there's a who what what what's that? What's that?
I know
See the pretty girl in that mirror there um who can that attractive girl be which what where whom the point is there's
so many words it could be yet it's who
So I decided to rewrite the lyrics for Adam to make the ending of Pity the Child perhaps a little more easy
So this is him calling his mother. Now he's a hot chess player, and he didn't want to call her for-
horrible ending. Here we go ok
Yes
Pity the child but not forever not if he stays that way
He can get all he ever wanted if he's prepared to pay
Pity instead the careless mother, what she missed, what she lost when she let me go
I wonder, does she know? I wouldn't call to tell her I was hot just in case she said
what
So much easier to sing isn't it?
Kinda.
I'm out
Stupid brava, you still got it