Adam Pascal

Adam Pascal, Telly Leung , Seth Rudetsky - Backstage at the Broadway musical Disaster! at the Nederlander Theatre. at Nederlander Theatre, - New York, New York, United States - Wednesday 10th February 2016

Adam Pascal - World Premiere of 'Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival' at The Egyptian Theater at The Egyptian, Egyptian Theater - Hollywood, California, United States - Tuesday 11th August 2015

Adam Pascal and Christine Pedi - The new cast of the Broadway musical CHICAGO at the Ambassador Theatre - Backstage - New York , New York , United States - Monday 8th April 2013

Amra-faye Wright, Adam Pascal and Amy Spanger

Adam Pascal, Amy Spanger and Amra-Faye Wright - The new cast of the Broadway musical CHICAGO at the Ambassador Theatre - Curtain Call - New York , New York , United States - Monday 8th April 2013

R. Lowe, Adam Pascal, Amy Spanger and Amra-faye Wright

Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz - Cast members from Rent, including Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz and Telly Leung Wednesday 14th March 2012 After party celebrating the 1000th performance of the Broadway musical 'Memphis', held at Lounge 48.

Rent Review

By Chris Barsanti

Excellent

Whatever happened to the glut of movie musicals that the success of Moulin Rouge and Chicago was supposed to have unleashed upon us? Although the door for the long-moribund genre was indeed nudged open by those films, it fortunately never opened wide enough to subject us to the like of Mamma Mia! The Film or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Reloaded. Instead, studios have been fairly scrupulous about what they'll let through, and with the arrival of Rent, that's proved to be a good thing.

When Chris "Mrs. Doubtfire" Columbus was announced as the director of the evergreen 1996 rock musical - which updated Puccini's starving-artists opera La Bohème to the East Village in the late 1980s - it seemed like a bad joke. Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese had been buzzing around the project for years and getting the show's fans all excited, only to run into the usual budget/artistic/Miramax problems, not to mention a cast that was slowly getting past its prime. Handing the play over to the family-friendly Columbus seemed like admitting that the subject matter - a welter of squatting artists, homosexuality, heroin addiction, AIDS, and untimely deaths - was going to get watered down. Somehow, that didn't happen. While he's made the musical considerably cinematic, Columbus has also shown a surprising appreciation and fidelity to the source material; he should have tried directing something without children years ago.

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Rent Review

By Chris Barsanti

Excellent

Whatever happened to the glut of movie musicals that the success of Moulin Rouge and Chicago was supposed to have unleashed upon us? Although the door for the long-moribund genre was indeed nudged open by those films, it fortunately never opened wide enough to subject us to the like of Mamma Mia! The Film or Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Reloaded. Instead, studios have been fairly scrupulous about what they'll let through, and with the arrival of Rent, that's proved to be a good thing.

When Chris "Mrs. Doubtfire" Columbus was announced as the director of the evergreen 1996 rock musical - which updated Puccini's starving-artists opera La Bohème to the East Village in the late 1980s - it seemed like a bad joke. Spike Lee and Martin Scorsese had been buzzing around the project for years and getting the show's fans all excited, only to run into the usual budget/artistic/Miramax problems, not to mention a cast that was slowly getting past its prime. Handing the play over to the family-friendly Columbus seemed like admitting that the subject matter - a welter of squatting artists, homosexuality, heroin addiction, AIDS, and untimely deaths - was going to get watered down. Somehow, that didn't happen. While he's made the musical considerably cinematic, Columbus has also shown a surprising appreciation and fidelity to the source material; he should have tried directing something without children years ago.

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S.L.C. Punk! Review

By Christopher Null

Excellent

Ah, to be a young anarchist in 1985... in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Using the most conservative city in America as a backdrop for the American punk movement proves to be nothing short of brilliance in S.L.C. Punk! This little gem features the always-engaging Matthew Lilliard as "Stevo," a blue-haired college grad in the Reagan years who rages against the machine, his parents, his enemies, and -- of course -- Utah.

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