theater moments that made me want to direct
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This is also known as the Michael Arden fan club.
Note: all of my editing takes place after 10pm, so ignore all of the typos. I hate proofreading*
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Intro- 0:00
The Dark I Know Well (Deaf West Spring Awakening Revival)- 0:08
Made of Stone (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)- 1:24
Who I’d Be (Shrek the Musical)- 2:04
Stronger (Finding Neverland)- 3:01
[Intro] Empty Chairs at Empty Tables- 4:59
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Andy Mientus)- 5:06
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Chris McCarrell)- 6:19
Outro- 7:33
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The candles in ECAET will never fail to get me. What perfect staging!!
As for which version I prefer vocally, personally, I like them both for separate reasons. I think they are 2 sides of the same coin in that they both illustrate different sides of the same grief.
Andy's Marius is emotionally fragile, haunted by the gaping void in his life where his friends used to be. His depiction of the thousand-yard stare of PTSD is so accurate that it hurts. There are some parts of his performance where he seems almost as much of a ghost as his friends and you can see how shattered he really is.
Conversely, Chris' Marius is emblematic of that one quote by poet Anne Carson: "Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." His performance is harsh but there is a rawness, a heartbroken desperation behind it that is so well-depicted by his trembling hand at the end.
Both performances are incredible!
I love this comment so much! It’s a perfect description!!
Made of Stone is so outrageous. After already belting his face off for the rest of the show, there's this monster of an 11 o'clock number. And the monster of a song ends with a monster of a phrase.
Michael Arden is such an inspiration to me! He’s a performer, but also an incredible director! He’s the best!
And that man made that phrase into a declarative statement... What a great performer and artist. Very expressive lol I'd love to watch the whole show. Never seen it 🤷 or maybe just his sections lmfao
@@pattmahiney there’s a bootleg of the musical here on RUclips
The song itself is ridiculous, but given the context of the rest of the show it’s made so much more impressive
It’s such a ridiculously hard song to sing and Michael does it so well. I just can’t get over his performance, he’s amazing!
The best thing about this is the fact that Michael Arden also directed the deaf production of spring awakening. Man is a theatre treasure
I want to work for him SO BAD!! He can act, he can direct… it would be the best experience of my life
Michael really needs his flowers cause he directed my favorite musical, the 2018 production of once on this island and it was just gorgeous and deserved all the awards 👏 🙌
@@lex_morgan His directing is something to envy
Hunchback the musical was CRIMINALLY underrated and should have made it to Broadway, and Michael's Made Of Stone was enough to bring a person to their knees in worship just, UGH-
Frozen the musical wasn't horrible, but the fact that it won a spot on Broadway compared to something like this is just-
like- HOW!?!??!?!?!?!
“bring a person to their knees in worship”
Imma use that phrase now for this song, thank you
Only reason it was never on Broadway was they wanted to make the choir smaller so they wouldn't have to pay as many people. They stood their ground, and rightfully so - those big choir Moments are pure goosebumps. To this day still one of the Most stunning musicals and Musical Scores!
@@singenstattatmen5096 That is a very fascinating piece of information! Tysm for sharing that!
Hunchback of notre dame is just perfection.
Frollo is a lit villain
Pure evil
Was that a pun?
@@FloatyyBrain I’m going to pretend that was intentional 😀👍
The english version is so disappointing though 🥲
just that "don't ASK me" in Chris Mccarrell's version is enough to bring tears to my eyes
Actually my favorite
I had no idea Jeremy Jordan was in the prebroadway production of finding neverland. He's just so good in everything!
Immediately better than M*tthew M*rrison
finding never land is CRIMINALLY underrated and deserves so much
Jeremy Jordan was incredible in the Off-Broadway version I love it so much
Seeing the tour in the pantages here in LA was incredible. Finding Neverland reprise (I'm crying just thinking about it), the final moment with the shawls dancing in the wind, god what a show. One of my favorites.
chris mccarrell’s ECAET never fails to give me chills no matter how many times i watch it (i. e. an embarrassing amount)
Literally same 😭😭 My search history...
Little note I also only just realised: in The Dark I Know Well it's only male students spinning the bed and watching them to represent how the men in their lives controlled them on the bed
That bed has so much symbolism I love it
Shrek the Musical is a long time favorite. There is no song that doesn't slap. I'm so glad it's finally in a musical video.
Exactly! From a theater kid standpoint, Shrek slaps. From a directoral standpoint, "Who I'd Be" is PERFECT! Trio songs like this are so fun to direct! I'm so glad you like this!
As a big Fun Home fan, I love how clearly you can hear the echoes of what will come throughout the score of Shrek… especially in this number!
For years, I heard so many people saying that Shrek the Musical was a terrible show. After watching it on Netflix quite a few years ago, I immediately fell in love with it. It is just so good!!!!
LITERALLY!! WE NEED TO GIVE IT ITS FLOWERS
Got to be the stronger one but then I really did like the way they used sign and the bed and like everyone coming together at the first song. ALSO THE CANDLES AT THE EMPTY CHAIRS ONE!! I found them all really fun and interesting to watch♡♡
Please please PLEASE look up videos from Deaf West Spring Awakening. They are literally so gorgeous
I've seen Michael Arden perform in many "slime tutorials" but have seen his direction way more live than his acting performances. He never ceases to amaze me. His direction is spot on and beautiful to look at. I finally saw him perform live in Hunchback and he was incredible. He can sing, act, direct, and compose. His music from Easter Rising is so amazing. I wish that would get produced. It is truly a dream of mine to work with him one day in some capacity. He literally can do it all. Sometimes actor/directors blur the lines and when they are directing they can end up going "well if I was acting in this, this is what I would do." Which is not how you are supposed to direct. But Michael does not do that. He can separate his roles in a production and really bring out the best in his actors or if he is performing he gives a top notch heartfelt performance. I could rave about him all day.
The Ultimate Dream!!!!
7:21 I think the harshness of Chris McCarrell’s tone adds a good contrast to the soft tone he switches to when the realization really hits him
I really want to hear Jeremy Jordan sing "Made of Stone".
I didn’t want it until you said it. Thank you for this thought!!
"Who I'd Be" SO REAL THAT IS THE BEST PART OF THE MUSICAL I SWEAR
and Chris McCarrell's ECAET??? oh you have TASTE
Oh I have more… but editing is not my favorite 😭😭
The opening notes came on and I immediately was like, it's gonna be good
Awwww thanks!!
I want him to be cast in the live-action Hunchback movie SO SO badly. He's perfect.
MICHAEL ARDEN AND HUNCHBACK SUPREMACY
T R U T H
2:18 it’s actually what is called a polyphonic section where there are multiple melodies going on not standard three part harmony! It’s so cool when it works perfectly like this!
Watching this to remind me why I'm alive again.
I’m glad to be of service ❤️
The fact that the same man who was SANGing Made of Stone also directed the show in the clip before it. DWSA was a direction masterpiece. It was my final project presentation in my musical theatre history class. Preparing for the presentation I rewatched a boot and took notes. I ended up having 12 pages of notes of things I wanted to talk about. Just in this clip alone-women inherently face more abuse than men. This boot doesn’t let us glimpse one of the greatest moments of the number, the ending pose where all the girls jerk their heads to look at the men on the opposite side of the stage. All the girls end with their hands up and out, surrendering, innocent, while the men, lead by the actual Adult Man, reach towards the girls, accusatory. I don’t think it’s Hanschen that runs up the stairs, I think it’s Ernst actually. I don’t remember from the time I saw it, but there’s a press photo of the exact moment, and Hanschen is with the other boys, while Ernst is on the stairs behind the girls, actually copying their pose. I think the inference being either that Ernst is suffering some specific similar abuse that the songs sings about, or that as a closeted gay boy there’s also a part he can’t tell about the dark he knows well. Michael Arden’s sign name wasn’t “genius” with an M for no reason.
Seeing clips of these Mariuses is kinda crazy. What actors. Andy Mientus has done MANY roles, but as a DWSA fanatic, I know him best for Hanschen. And I know Chris McCarell best for Percy Jackson. Two roles that could not be more different than Marius. And the two Mariuses so different from each other. Andy’s Marius is horrified. Chris’s Marius is livid. When Andy turns around, he’s terrified of having to look in the faces of those left behind. Chris is daring them to look at him as the one left behind. When Andy says the line “Don’t ask me,” he means it, PLEASE don’t ask him, he is afraid of the answer. When Chris says it, it’s a rhetorical, don’t ask him he won’t answer, you don’t have the RIGHT to ask him. Andy’s Marius blames himself, he cannot bear to look at his candle though he raises it. Chris’s Marius blames the world, he watches his candle’s smoke waft his last act of defiance.
Michael Arden + Andy Mientus are forces to be reckoned with with!! I’ve known about DWSA for a couple of years now, but I went deep about a month and a half before I made this video. Even my mother, who is a little weirded out by Spring Awakening, is entranced by DW.
Theater is such a special place.
@@TheaterCompilationCorner I got to see it on Bway with my mother! My family surprised me when were in NY! I literally have a whole PowerPoint that I still whip out on occasion about all of the everything that DWSA was doing and does. Snubbed on all fronts. Should’ve got Best Direction and Best Lighting.
@@frostedjosieos3193 It should have won lots of things 😭
If you like sign language and Hunchback, look up the 5th Avenue theatre production. The actor who plays Quasimodo is a deaf actor (Joshua Castille) who I’m pretty sure was in that production of Spring Awakening. He almost exclusively signs, and one of the gargoyles sings. I’ve only ever found the promotional footage that was released, but what has been released was AMAZING.
Also, Joshua Castille has an amazing voice, if you look up clips of him singing. He’s also wholesome and sweet.
Joshua Castille is an icon and when motivation hits to edit more I have a couple clips (Out There, Satisfied, etc)
I LOVE MICHAEL ARDEN 2
AND HIS PRODUCTION OF PARADE IS COMING TO BROADWAY SOON!! IM SO EXCITED!
Who Id Be trio is always great!
judge me if you want, but who’d i be was the first bway song that made me cry. THE ARRANGEMENT IS SICKENING
Donkey verse honestly is so good like come on. Donkey is underrated
Donkey is one of the best I-stole-the-show sidekicks ever
Our great Midland Texas boy made it big. And it is very well deserved!
He’s even better now his own voice vocals are so good and pure and golden I think he’s in incredible voice to hit that the highest notes in his voice for his age of a men he’s always not better than Julian decker Julian is so much better and fun his vocals were so good and to hit any higher notes for his vocals is so much more vibrato and belting vocals wow 🤩 geez 🙄 whiz I think his rank of the this song of mad3 of stone is. 1011 out of 99
Shrek the Musical is SEVERELY underrated
That show is fantastic
6:19 I think I like Andy's version better vocally, and the closest I can come to a reason is that Chris sounds too much like a quintessentially angsty teen to me, but maybe that's because I can't hear him without hearing Percy.
And Andy said that Marius was the hardest role he’s done! He was clearly made for it!
Y’all don’t appreciate Spring Awakening enough, I just started listening to the song and I already fell in love with it
Who is “y’all”?!?!?! Because I certainly appreciate it, I went to see the nat tour back when I was like 14 and there was no Broadway fandom online outside of tumblr 😂
Woah who is singing in finding neverland?? I have an idea but I’m afraid of being wrong lmao
Our Lord and Savior Jeremy Jordan!! He was the lead off-broadway!!
@@TheaterCompilationCorner I knew it omg
@@ceciliarodriguez2623 your brain just knew it
ppl really slept on the shrek musical
It shouldn’t have translated as well as it did!
Like the fluent asl
Deaf West is an incredible company and I really want them to bring another production to Broadway!!
Shrek the musical slaps so hard
Bro I had a debate with my acting teacher about the glories of Shrek the Musical
She was like “Why is it a thing it’s terrible” and I was like “No it’s perfect”
Dude, if you're going to add captions, then make sure they're up long enough for people to read them. The amount of time I had to pause and rewind was too much.
Tysm for the feedback!! I’m still new to editing, so any help is greatly appreciated!!
Is it just me or am I seeing a little bit of Nathan lane in Jeremy Jordan's performance?
Interesting! I never thought about that before!
You forgot Jekyll and Hyde the musical, literally don’t watch the one with David Hasselhoff, sure it seems like he did a good job in the show, but it was carried by the effects and the ensemble, I know this comment is now just attack David but he really did ruin it, just watch the one with Robert (forgot his last name😭)
LOVEEEE this video. we don’t talk about directing enough in broadway fandom
When I say I cried and showed this comment to my mother ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you!!!
@@TheaterCompilationCorner aw i’m so glad it made you happy!!! 😭
I'm still just so weirded out that a movie that looks like pea soup and is full of fart jokes lead to a Broadway song that beautiful (Shrek).
You guys have to remember to give credit to the folks who *wrote the songs in the first place* when talking about amazing performances or beautiful productions. I mean the Spring Awakening production was fabulous but the song lyrics themselves also help.
True! It takes so many people to put on a show!