West Side Story- "Maria" and "Tonight" 

Did he cough at the end ?

Aaron has certainly come a long way from being on Graceland and prior. Very proud to have met him in person more than once

I love him but he is too old now to play Tony alas

i think he was originally a classical singer. he was in the school chorus (choir) and doing west side story in high school was the first time he started taking voice lessons. he has a beautiful voice :)

Ronette Pulaski No it’s true! He started off studying classical singing then switched to theatre. He’s talked about it at concerts

@@BernardProfitendieu You can be accoladed grade 8+ in instrumentation/singing without doing it at higher education 🤦‍♂️ It's perfectly possible he was grade 8 at college/high-school - it's not a particularly far fetched statement. At that level you still constitute as a classical singer.

@@BernardProfitendieu This is precisely the elitism and conflation of opera singing with classical that results in the snobby stereotype. You can be a successful classical musician without attending a conservatory - you can also have the capability to pursue opera but perhaps wish to be involved with theatre instead. I don't see any record of Tveit failing to cut it classically. It's a presumptious/vacuous statement that assumes every classically trained singer wants to pursue opera and if they don't it's due to lack of ability. Take for example my Harpist friend who was offered the opportunity to study at Juilliard's and be a part of the harp ensemble there but chose to study at Leeds. Or my partner's cousin who got full marks in his classical diploma and was auditioned by to be part of the BBC Singers, but turned it down to pursue an education in Opera when his bass voice matures later in life. Guess what he went to Oxford not a conservatory; by your definition he isn't a proper classical singer yet he is precisely that and is currently a Lay Clerk in Oxford. Conservatoires cater to soloists and operatic voice types that mature early (with later admissions for longer maturing voice types). That doesn't mean you aren't a classical singer if you don't attend one. Are you a classical singer? I'm very intrigued how you have formulated this opinion.

@@BernardProfitendieu I'm a bloke. But I won't stop you deferring to ad hominen when you can't formulate an argument, and have to insinuate I'm somehow a "failure" like my peers. Which isn't an applicable argument to either example I used as one can't train to sing opera yet due to his voice type (something you would know if you knew what you were on about and were a classical singer), and the other didn't go to Juliard's for monetary reasons (funnily enough moving countries with a family on minimum wage is difficult)- but lets keep being presumptious about ability without any evidence shall we. Like evidence that Tveit somehow couldn't cut it as a classical singer? Will be happy to see evidence of that. I don't know about you but you couldn't make it a country mile near Broadway/West End with bad breath control - you need exemplary technique at a diploma level. You don't get a solo at a high school chamber choir with bad breath control ffs. But anyways, I'm glad my head is in thin air where I don't make presumptious comments about theatre (and don't pretentiously say this is the correct *english spelling* of theatre). Let's not forget you were the elitist asshole denigrating classical singers that didn't wish to study in X conservatoires.

OML SAME,,,

LOL reminded me of Sound of Music when they kids sing So Long Farewell.

Yess, he only played in high school :( i really want him in the cast of the west side story remake

Sweeney Todd has a song called “Johanna”

In Company he sings about a girl named Joana in Wait For Me

It may just be natural…🤷🏻 - Why must everything be named & categorized❓☝️Interesting tho how so-called “believers in God” are so quick to invoke “damnation”… 😇

@@andrewmair7371 I apologize for overstating my actual beliefs here; no one is damned except by his own choice. I was just astounded by such talent. Perhaps what humans see as the ultimate in beauty is just an elementary version of it, and somewhere out there, there exists beauty far beyond our ability of conception.

j michelle She’s not Latina so that would be a bad call, although obviously she sings beautifully here.

Nathan Graham Omgosh! How did I miss that! LOL I guess I was just distracted by the sound of her voice.. lol😂😏

Neither was Natalie Wood in the movie adaptation.

Cathie Soli Yes, and that was the 60s. This is 2018. We can do better.

And Aaron is 34, Laura 32. Tony and Maria are in their late teens. And yes we can do better casting in 2018.

no, Maria should be played by a latina actress

You know what's funny, watch the 1983 version of Scarlet Pimpernel, the actor in it, Anthony Andrews who plays Percy looks like Aaron Tveit, it's really uncanny how similar they look ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TpBkJ0Xb6ME.html

someone uploaded it! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-txGKaunnK7Q.html

ww2511 THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

Name that musical

@@adrianaguidi2617 Legally blonde!

Hannah Smith I’m so glad you got it hahah

Kaneohe lmao now I cant stop watching them 😂😂

Erica Bautista Extremely distracting!

They're just performing two songs from the show, not doing an actual production. Sheesh.

You don’t have to be Latina to play Maria. That’s racist as shit, imagine if someone said a black girl couldn’t play a part that’s meant to be Caucasian

Willow-Grace Hanlon racism are against minorities,,, white people in america are definitely the majority, dude. in this case, they probably rly shouldnt be representing characters who are being racially discriminated, so uhh yeah. like yeah they could perform a song from the musical all they want, but i dont think they should be representing a minority in a musical when the plot deals with race.

Raenini you can be racist against white people, my dad was almost killed for being a white man, as was my mother for being Latina. It goes both ways, please try to be less ignorant

Willow-Grace Hanlon that’s being prejudiced- not racist. racism comes from a majority group having the mindset of being better than all other minorities - white being that majority group. i still hold my point either way.

Kaneohe Laura isn't Latina either hehe

Erica Bautista Haha that's true, but she has the right skin/hair color for it. 😊

No she doesn't. Their hair is thick and dark as well as darker skin. Rewatch the movie and look around. Even Natalie Woods had to be reworked but nearly as much as this person would have to be. Features are all wrong.

I think he can almost get a pass for that. I know a few Italians and part-Italians who don't look like they're Italian.

Tina Lambert Latinos come in many flavors. Not just what you described.

You do realize Tony’s not of Latin descent right

I did the best I could, I had to screen record it from the PBS streaming app on an android (I'm super poor), it's this or nothing except bootleg audio recorded from the audience with a person coughing in the background.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-txGKaunnK7Q.html this exists now

@@1899jules you did just fine. Ignore that person.

Forgive me, I had to screen record it from pbs streaming on an android

@@1899jules no prob, not at all criticizing your recording, rather, the production....I just wish for softer dynamics in the piece. softer in the soft parts - especially the ending. "say it soft and it's almost like praying.." Here is a live recording, Tony in a LIVE theater performance running every day over a week, with all dialogue, acting, the screaming in the final scene, death scene - this is without any microphone - live performance. performing the complete role every night for a week... soundcloud.com/daniel-lockwood-54109873/maria-stereo