I personally am a huge fan of Drew's voice, how it can go from rock and roll to legit musical theatre (sometimes within the same song). But the biggest thing I love about him is his commitment and his passion. He gives it 400 percent no matter what, and as an actor I appreciate that enormously. He gives tremendous thought to the preparation and he's always acting, always involved with the scene, and that's why I think he's incredible.
Annas is meant to be a lyric tenor - there aren't enough of us in the world, so they rarely get cast, but there's meant to be a marked difference between him and Caiaphus..
Technically the exact voice type written for the role is defined by the composer is "countertenor" or "falsetist", which is correctly cased in the famous 73 film version for exemple but I agree that that does not mean any quality of voice... :-)
You say he didn't care he was selling out his savior: that's cuz he didn't feel like he was selling him out..... he really did believe he was doing the right thing at the time. If you see this actor singing ' Judas' death' you'll find he' s a good actor.
love Caiaphas expression at 0:29 also, Drew is just amazing. I would love to see him as Luceni in Elisabeth, he would fit sooooo well!!! Or as Eljoras in LesMis... Such an awesome actor and singer. One of my favourites!
There’s plenty of footage of him as Enjolras during the 2006 Broadway revival(he was the original understudy for Enjorlras in this production, while he regularly played a factory worker, the innkeeper who kicks Valjean out of his in during the prologue, and as Grantaire!)(he was also a replacement for Valjean and Javert too!). m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4VMfcggjyJA.html I thought he was Rudolf at one point in one of the early productions of Elizabeth(though he most certainly was Rudolf in the Rudolf’s Affaire Mayerling), but probably not(though he certainly has played both Rudolf and Der Tod in concert performances!). I agree he’s a GREAT actor, as my forever favorite performance of his is as Quasimodo in Disney’s Der Glockner Von Notre Dame(the original 1999 German stage production of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame), which is where I myself first heard of him, and I didn’t even know he was from the US either(my next favorite just recently became his Jesus in the 2005 concert of Jesus Christ Superstar)! :) It be interesting to see his take on Lucchini, but I say it’s a hell of a feet to March into Serkan’s territory(even if Serkan has only played Judas to Drew’s Jesus in 2005 so far)!
Why do I like the chase coreography so much? XD Also am I the only one who now sees Annas as a comedic villian sidekick? (and a gay one at that XD) Though at 2:31 he looks kinda like a vulture, so he's cool XD
Drew is NOT out of tune or shit..... He is generally considered to be one of the BEST Judas'. If you are not partial to his singing style for some odd reason or whatever it is that turned you off of him I dare you to watch this again and see all the internal work going on in his acting and his beautiful lyric and free voice that goes all the way into his top notes!
I think he simply means that falsetto is all Drew Sarich can do, because his real range would break the Earth in half. It's just so unreal that it doesn't SOUND like it's human falsetto. Drew's falsetto is Pavarotti's belt.
It's an underground production, so you won't really be able to find it anywhere else than here on RU-vid unless you meet someone who happen to have a copy of it.
Ah. (I must've watched this video 4 times before I realized that it was, in fact, a guy singing. I thought it was a woman, who sounded a lot like my grandmother. o.O lol)
@PotO2004Phantom Our High School didn't even have a theater group, most of the productions would've been postponed until the actors / players made bail for possession of weed !! I've seen some good non - professional productions like Godspell at our college theater. I want to see Les Mis some time. I've only seen a few scenes.
@PotO2004Phantom If my Muse cooperates, & I start writing stories again, maybe I could get something turned into a script. My Muse goes on too many breaks !!!
...Maybe I just don't know much about the show(having never seen the whole show, just youtube videos, but idk if that really explains it or not), but are the 'exceedinly feminine' guards of any significance? Or are they just...there? With no real point? Thanks.
He didn't hold the end long enough, and I never have like the more recent change of Caiaphas skipping over Annas when he says, 'a fee, a fee, a fee nothing more." I'd rather have Annas interjecting with "a fee?" with the inflection almost a question to Caiaphas. Although his timing may be slightly off and he is not deep enough, I applaud his efforts. He has a great costume and the overall performance was superb.
he sings jesus in vienna every few years around easter it seems; they have like, two nights of jcss each year somehow. no idea whether he'll sing there next easter though, sorry! =/ (here's hoping!)
@PotO2004Phantom That sounds like trying to juggle watermelons. I could never handle a play, soccer, etc., maybe when I was 10 - 15 years younger..... ;-) I dated this girl who was into College theater & it seemed to consume EVERY WAKING MOMENT of her life around then.
I thought it was a woman too. I was looking all over the stage for one, but couldn't find her. I was shocked to find it was a man! He sounds really good, though.
Not bad! I've heard better Caiaphases, and I'm not entirely convinced that Annas ISN'T a woman with some sort of faux-man chest on, but it's quite good, on the whole. Any chance we'll be seeing "This Jesus Must Die" up sometime soon?
He seems to focused on showing what a good singer he is (and he IS) than to reflect the real feelings Judas should be feeling in this situations. He misses completely the character
Oh my god shut up both annas and Judas have amazing voices that are so rare and hard to find, listen to the notes they can hit! Also drew is acting maybe you should look at the manurisms he is using! He's trying to convince them not to kill jesus what more could he do!?!
If anyone wants any of this.. I have all of this show to send. AUDIO only and I also have the one from Vienna. Where he plays Jesus. (And of course I won't make you pay! That' rude!:) )
Annas sounds like a woman... holy crap..... Sarich is soo awesome... Post that video of him in jekyll and hyde..... I bet he walked in and auditioned and they were like... holy crap! lol
The same note repeated is a very hard way to sing, such as the start of Don't Cry for me Argentina. The second verse of this song is supposed to be this way as well, but this Judas singer chickened out and sang a whole bunch of notes instead, as though he's singing the animated Disney version.
The guy who plays Judas sings Heaven on Their Minds quite well, but he doesn't do this song with the passion needed. Even so, his voice is very powerful, even more so than Carl Anderson, but there's something lacking in both performances. It's one thing to write, and another thing to storytell.
