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In honor of the return of Glee
{Yet another installation of in-praise-of-men's-voices.}
Around here we are Gleeks with reservations. I don't think it's for everyone in the family but I personally love the campiness and the fun musical adaptations. So, in honor of its return tonight, I bring you this gleeky, geeky retrospective.
Recognize this guy?
Yep, that's Mr. Schuster from Glee playing the lead--years ago--in The Light in the Piazza. Sigh. It's brilliant. I might admit to seeing it three times. He played a young Italian boy, Fabrizio, in the 1950s who falls in love with a visiting American girl named Clara. The love songs are amazing. Here's Matthew Morrison and Kelly O'hara (go ahead, treat yourself to a little listen--even if you're not a Glee fan):
A couple of years later I also saw them both in South Pacific, in the exact same theater where TLITP played. It was a small, in-the-round theater at Lincoln Center. It was weird. Suddenly Fabrizio and Clara were grown-ups.
With fewer clothes.
So, bottom line: I like to think Matthew Morrison and I go way back. Break a leg, Mr. Shu.
{Thanks for indulging me...back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Reader Comments (2)
Yay for Glee! After I gave tonight's homework assignment in one of my classes, one student said (in Spanish), "Homework tonight? But it's the season premiere of 'Glee'!" (The whole school knows I love Glee because of a little speech I gave at an assembly in the spring, which was Glee-inspired . . .)
I love, love, LOVE The Light in the Piazza. Now I love Mr Shu even more...