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Mar. 28th, 2011 11:12 amSo when I was around nine or ten, I spent every night for a period of months unable to fall asleep unless I was listening to the soundtrack of How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. (I'm pretty sure this was after my Cats tape melted from overuse.) I don't know why nine-year-old Becca picked How To Succeed in Business, and I don't know what kind of assumptions about the adult world were thusly driven into my subconscious via sixties satire, but I had sort of forgotten all about that period of my life until I went to see the Broadway production last Thursday and got struck with enormously intense feelings of deja vu.
But you guys don't really want to hear about that, you want to hear whether little Dan Radcliffe can sing and dance! Which, I won't lie, is a large part of the reason why we went. (I am quite fond of Dan Radcliffe; he's definitely grown into his acting, and he seems like a sweetheart, and also when he was little he had a really strong resemblance to my little brother, which has lessened with age but not entirely disappeared. This means that a.) I have these weird sort of fuzzy older-sister feelings about him and b.) my brother has spent much of his life very bitter about the accident of birth that prevented him from having a British accent. He could have been Harry Potter, guys!)
Anyway, the answer: Dan Radcliffe is never going to be a great singer, but he can certainly carry a tune well enough to carry a show. And, guys, he actually can dance! During his first big dance number he looked sort of energetically awkward, but it worked for the show - it's during a bit where he's supposed to be completely faking it in order to win the favor of the Big Boss - and I was like "well, okay, good for Dan Radcliffe and the directors, they found a way to work with his talents." But then came the finale of the second act, and I had to reassess my assumptions, because dang. You go, little Dan Radcliffe! Cavort around that stage!
I say 'little' advisedly, by the way, because another thing that actually worked hilariously well for the show was the fact that every other male character was at least a head taller than our star. During all the "imitate the boss" scenes he just looked like an endearingly smug mini-me!
( Some more things I was impressed by and one thing I wasn't )
But you guys don't really want to hear about that, you want to hear whether little Dan Radcliffe can sing and dance! Which, I won't lie, is a large part of the reason why we went. (I am quite fond of Dan Radcliffe; he's definitely grown into his acting, and he seems like a sweetheart, and also when he was little he had a really strong resemblance to my little brother, which has lessened with age but not entirely disappeared. This means that a.) I have these weird sort of fuzzy older-sister feelings about him and b.) my brother has spent much of his life very bitter about the accident of birth that prevented him from having a British accent. He could have been Harry Potter, guys!)
Anyway, the answer: Dan Radcliffe is never going to be a great singer, but he can certainly carry a tune well enough to carry a show. And, guys, he actually can dance! During his first big dance number he looked sort of energetically awkward, but it worked for the show - it's during a bit where he's supposed to be completely faking it in order to win the favor of the Big Boss - and I was like "well, okay, good for Dan Radcliffe and the directors, they found a way to work with his talents." But then came the finale of the second act, and I had to reassess my assumptions, because dang. You go, little Dan Radcliffe! Cavort around that stage!
I say 'little' advisedly, by the way, because another thing that actually worked hilariously well for the show was the fact that every other male character was at least a head taller than our star. During all the "imitate the boss" scenes he just looked like an endearingly smug mini-me!
( Some more things I was impressed by and one thing I wasn't )
