so I watched harry potter dance last night

[jlh]

Yeah, I know, whatever. I can be irreverent on my own journal, damnit!

So first thing's first: He was perfectly fine.

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[jlh]

There probably weren't as many 14-year-old girls successful in talking their parents into taking them to see Equus as there were in taking them to see How to Succeed. Just a guess! But yeah, there were a LOT of families there.

Heidi was pointing out that one of the reviews noted that with Broderick and Stamos and Macchio, because they're older, there's an air of desperation, of already having failed and clinging to a book, about their performance. But DanRad is just a young kid who doesn't have a lot of opportunities. Also Broderick could tap into Ferris--he can do that charming scalawag. Harry is a lot of things but he doesn't get scheming until the later books and that aspect of his character hasn't been brought out in the movies.

It's like, you know how much I adore Colfer in that "Teenage Dream" scene because he's not doing anything but he's doing so much? DanRad hasn't figured out how to do that yet. But god, he's young--I feel like he will. It's all there, he just hasn't put it together yet. And by the end of the show he was quite good--it's just that in that very first scene he wasn't able, as an actor, to make me care about the character before the play did.