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re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre?
Posted by: Teesh 01:06 am EDT 10/28/17
In reply to: re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre? - lowwriter 12:59 am EDT 10/28/17

More importantly, why isn't he Arnold Beckoff in TORCH SONG?
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re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre?
Posted by: KingSpeed 05:21 pm EDT 10/28/17
In reply to: re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre? - Teesh 01:06 am EDT 10/28/17

He did it in DC a couple years ago. Beat me out for the role.
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re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre?
Last Edit: DidYouSeeThat 11:28 am EDT 10/28/17
Posted by: DidYouSeeThat 11:26 am EDT 10/28/17
In reply to: re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre? - Teesh 01:06 am EDT 10/28/17

Are you aware that he played that role (Arnold Beckoff) four years ago at the Studio Theatre in Washington, DC? The unabridged (as far as I could tell) 3.5-hour production was directed by Michael Kahn, the soon-to-retire artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC and long-time director of the drama division at Juilliard. I see a lot of theater (in NYC, DC and Baltimore), but Brandon Uranowitz was unfamiliar to me. (Even though I had seen him in "Baby, It's You", he did not stand out to me.) His performance in "Torch Song Trilogy" was amazing.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Posted by: GabbyGerard 11:21 am EDT 10/28/17
In reply to: re: Brandon Uranowitz -- why wasn't he Pierre? - Teesh 01:06 am EDT 10/28/17

As nice as his singing voice is, I don't understand Uranowitz's appeal (though, admittedly, I did not see American in Paris). I feel like his choices are always about eliciting as big of a reaction as possible from the audience.

However, I think you're insinuating that Arnold should be played by an actor who reads as Jewish, a point that I ***strongly*** agree with. As skillful as Urie is, to me, he failed to authentically convey the aspects of Arnold's identity traditionally associated with Judaism.
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