#steven kodaly

[drmopp1966]

and for today’s she loves me shenanigans,

i happened to find the original demo tracks for all of the songs just on tumblr

i literally couldn’t find them anywhere else

so now i’ve put them on internet archive so that they’re easier to access :D

(with thanks to @fyeahshelovesme for posting these originally!)

#some of the cut songs are absolute bangers too #especially ‘my drug store’ it’s so good #she loves me #she loves me musical #she loves me 2016 #broadway #musical #musicals #georg nowack #amalia balash #ilona ritter #ladislav sipos #arpad laszlo #steven kodaly

[differenzeartistiche]

Gavin Creel is 47 today!

It’s my yearly tradition to bring back this old post of ranked performances to celebrate the birthday of this wonderful performer, so here we go! Updated this year with Into the Woods!

Gavin Creel, 16 performances, ranked!

16. Nick Piazza in Fame

This show has some merits, although it’s definitely not one of my favorites. It’s Gavin’s professional debut, and I can forgive him some naïveté in an otherwise competent, beautifully sung performance. His rendition of “I wanna make magic” is lovely.

15. Charles Darnay in A Tale of Two Cities

Ok, so this was a concert performance, so it’s not really fair to compare it to the others, but I’ll just throw it in here. Mainly because it’s such an unusual show for Gavin. It’s something that tries very hard to be on the level of Les Miserables, without much success, and Gavin is not a huge fan of that kind of show. That said, it’s a nicely sung performance of a classic romantic hero role. Nice, nothing more.

14. Jean-Michel in La Cage Aux Folles

Great show, poor but still competent production. The role is easily the most boring in the whole play, but he gets to sing the cute “With Anne on my arm” and he nails it.

13. Troy in American Horror Stories

Oh this was a fun one, Gavin playing outside his comfort zone, far removed from his preferred genre and into an over-the-top, sexy role that is rather unique in his career. I wish the material he had to work with was better, but his scenes with Aaron Tveit were superb.

12. Hollis Bessemer in Bounce

Sadly a lesser show by Sondheim, I still love some aspects of it, and Gavin’s wide-eyed artistically-inclined dreamer is one of them. His big solo “Talent” is the best song of the show and touches me on a very personal level.

11. Matthews in Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure

Gavin voicing a Disney villain! A Disney villain with a secret! A Disney villain with a French accent! Talk about playing against type. There’s something of Kodaly here, and of Lumiere and of Pepé Le Pew. You can tell he had a blast recording this role, and the design is exquisite.

10. Cinderella’s Prince / The Wolf in Into the Woods

This is Gavin at his hammiest, and I’m here fot it. He obviously has loads of fun with the Wolf, oozing sleaziness from every pore, and as the Prince he’s perfectly balanced between superficial, phony and clueless, you can really believe that this candy-colors clothed fool was “raised to be charming, not sincere.”

9. Bill in Eloise at the Plaza / Eloise at Christmastime

Effortlessly hilarious on screen as he is on stage, he goes full-on old-time Hollywood star in the Christmas-themed sequel and I love it. A mix of Dick Powell and Fred Astaire.

8. Dr. Pomatter in Waitress

Sara Bareilles’ little gem of a musical often finds its strength in the absolute realness of its characters, flawed human beings looking for a little sparkle of happiness. Drew Gehling’s Dr. Pomatter was awkward and fun and sad-eyed, but I think Gavin wins infusing the character with tenderness and truly lived-in melancholy. A few weeks in a well-worn musical could be seen as a footnote in a great career, but it’s such a lovely performance, enhanced by the incredible chemistry he has with Bareilles.

7. Bert in Mary Poppins

My introduction to Gavin and since then I’ve come to appreciate him as heir to impossibly gangly male leads like Dick Van Dyke, so this feels like such a natural fit. I find the show a little bloated, but watch him defying gravity in that “walking on air” scene: it’s irresistible.

6. Ugly in Honk!

Having him play the ugly duckling ALSO feels like a natural fit. Gavin’s at his best when he plays lost and confused dreamers, and the fairy tale touch with the surreal setting makes for a wonderful variation on that theme.

5. Steven Kodaly in She Loves Me

Easily the odd man out of the list. The evil, scheming, suave and self-centered Kodaly is a delightful departure from all the romantic leads and clueless buffoons of Gavin’s career. The showstopper “Ilona” brings out all the manipulative nature of the character, a snake that always finds a way out and always gets what he wants. A remarkable performance that makes me want to see him branch out into even more strange territories.

4. Jimmy Smith in Thoroughly Modern Millie

Again with the old-time charm and humor. Millie is a show dominated by women, and Gavin’s male romantic lead manages not to be swallowed whole by them by being so wonderfully easy-going, hilariously aloof and occasionally sassy. It does also help that in “What do I need with love” he has one of the catchiest numbers of the show.

3. Cornelius Hackl in Hello, Dolly!

PUDDING. That alone deserved the Tony. It’s an overwhelmingly funny turn that makes the best of the original, almost vaudevillian nature of the show. So full of tricks and ticks and winks to the audience, deliciously aware of its own absurdity, it’s the kind of scene-stealing performance that not every actor can pull off. And oh my god, has anyone ever sung Jerry Herman’s beautiful tunes so gorgeously? You almost wish he could have sung “Put on your Sunday clothes” in its entirety.

2. Elder Price in The Book of Mormon

Somewhere between the rubber-faced humor of Jim Carrey, the earnest straight man hilarity of Jack Lemmon and the physicality of Dick Van Dyke. A perfect combination that captures the sarcastic, yet disarmingly sweet nature of the show, with its hints of meanness and self-devouring doubt.

1. Claude Hooper Bukowski in Hair

Unquestionably the masterpiece of Gavin’s career. A towering performance that starts with the iconicity of the role and the visuals associated with it and finds the core of Claude’s humanity: a scared, earnest, sometimes self-centered, mostly clueless young man that has to face something so much bigger than himself, something that is so far from the made-up world of fake accents and films in space that he has created for himself and that will eventually consume him. Moments like “Where do I go” and “The Flesh Failures” are moving and brutally honest.

#gavin creel #broadway #into the woods #american horror stories #rapunzel tangled adventures #eloise at christmastime #hair #the book of mormon #waitress

[djretard]

kodali and steven are like if the mean girl was actually being serious when asking the autistic freak if they wanted to be friends. granted she's wildly unpopular as well but. a mean girl if a mean girl had gotten kicked off the cheer team and now spends her time running around being a general nuisance to everyone around her for the fun of it. who are you talking about I'm talking about my Guys.........

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.16

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Fallert (1842)

Troy Paski (1961)

Bryan Selders (1974)

Nicole Erny (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ludwig van Beethoven; German composer (1770)

Philip K. Dick; writer (1928)

Bill Hicks; comedian (1961)

Wassily Kandinsky; French artist (1866)

Miranda Otto; Australian actor (1967)

Famous Birthdays

Bruce Ames; biochemist (1928)

Jane Austen; English writer (1775)

Shane Black; actor (1961)

Quentin Blake; artist, illustrator (1932)

Steven Bocho; television producer (1943)

Benjamin Bratt; actor (1963)

Catherine of Aragon; consort of Henry VIII (1485)

Arthur C. Clarke; English scientist, writer (1917)

Barbe-Nicole Clicquot; champagne-maker (1777)

Noel Coward; English writer (1899)

Ben Cross; actor (1947)

Robben Ford; rock, blues guitarist (1951)

Billy Gibbons; rock musician (1949)

Jim Glaser; country singer (1937)

Piet Hein; Danish inventor (1905)

Anthony Hicks; rock singer, guitarist (1943)

Murray Kempton; journalist (1917)

Zoltan Kodaly; composer (1882)

Leopold I; Belgian king (1790)

Danielle Lloyd; English model (1983)

Margaret Mead; anthropologist (1901)

William "Refrigerator" Perry; Chicago Bears DL (1962)

V.S. Pritchett; English writer (1900)

Sam Robards; actor (1961)

George Santayana; Spanish philosopher (1863)

John Selden; English jurist (1584)

Shane; porn actor (1969)

JoAnn Stamm; Mom (1937)

Lesley Stahl; journalist (1941)

Liv Ullman; Norwegian actor (1939)

#Birthdays

[dearamaliabalash]

SHE LOVES ME CHARACTERS AS COLOR MEANINGS

#she loves me #shelovesmeedit #georg nowack #amalia balash #ilona ritter #steven kodaly #arpad laslo #mystuff #mygifs #mine #SO HAPPY W THIS!!! #ive been want to do a color meanings thing for a long time #turns out it takes a long time to find all the right matches for their personalitys LOL

[wild-yonder]

the sheer amount of love i have for Gavin Creel and Andrew Rannells is unhealthy. I feel like i care for them more than some people in my family.

#gavin creel #andrew rannells #the book of mormon #tbom musical #the book of mormon musical #elder price #the prom musical #thoroughly modern millie #jimmy smith #she loves me #steven kodaly #hello dolly #hair the musical #falsettos #whizzer falsettos #whizzer brown #the man in the ceiling #mary poppins #jersey boys

[chuckaf]

#she loves me #shelovesmeedit #broadwayedit #theatreedit #musicaltheatreedit #mine #steven kodaly #his stupid disney villain pose and pout in the last one sksks #so overdramatic #i hate him so much i love him

[marythiccmas]

Georg + dancing

#she loves me #shelovesmeedit #broadwayedit #zleviedit #dailyreblogs #georg nowack #zachary levi #ilona ritter #jane krakowski #mr. maraczek #byron jennings #steven kodaly #gavin creel #ladislav sipos #tom mcgowan #mygifs #mine #* #the progression he has from being absolutely terrified to the last few gifs is just #chefs kiss #this gifset took so long to make but oh whale

[accioessenceofsanity]

hello friends if anyone has the proshot version of she loves me i would really appreciate it to be sent to me :)

update: i got one :)

#she loves me #vanilla ice cream #zachary levi #laura benanti #jane krakowski #gavin creel #georg nowack #amalia balash #ilona ritter #steven kodaly #ladislav sipos #mr maraczeck

[black-box-boy]

@ the she loves me fandom Am I allowed to call Kodaly by his first name??? Or is that weird???

I like calling him Steven but idk how we’re addressing him (it’s for a fic btw)

#she loves me musical #steven kodaly #illona ritter #amalia balash #georg nowack #broadway #theatre #arpad laszlo #ladislav sipos #mr. maraczek #she loves me

[theatreempress]

Come with mmmmmmmmmeeeeeeeeeee

iLLLOOOOOOnnnnnnnnaaaaaaa

#she loves me #ilona rittter #steven kodaly #theatre #musical theatre

[quotelist]

it’ll make music lovers out of cigarette smokers and music smokers out of cigarette lovers

#she loves me #musical #broadway #she loves me musical #steven kodaly

[djretard]

i fucking love dicking around on picrew. bitch steven and kodali are going ponymodeeeeee

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 12.16

Beer Birthdays

Joseph Fallert (1842)

Troy Paski (1961)

Bryan Selders (1974)

Nicole Erny (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Ludwig van Beethoven; German composer (1770)

Philip K. Dick; writer (1928)

Bill Hicks; comedian (1961)

Wassily Kandinsky; French artist (1866)

Miranda Otto; Australian actor (1967)

Famous Birthdays

Bruce Ames; biochemist (1928)

Jane Austen; English writer (1775)

Shane Black; actor (1961)

Quentin Blake; artist, illustrator (1932)

Steven Bocho; television producer (1943)

Benjamin Bratt; actor (1963)

Catherine of Aragon; consort of Henry VIII (1485)

Arthur C. Clarke; English scientist, writer (1917)

Barbe-Nicole Clicquot; champagne-maker (1777)

Noel Coward; English writer (1899)

Ben Cross; actor (1947)

Robben Ford; rock, blues guitarist (1951)

Billy Gibbons; rock musician (1949)

Jim Glaser; country singer (1937)

Piet Hein; Danish inventor (1905)

Anthony Hicks; rock singer, guitarist (1943)

Murray Kempton; journalist (1917)

Zoltan Kodaly; composer (1882)

Leopold I; Belgian king (1790)

Danielle Lloyd; English model (1983)

Margaret Mead; anthropologist (1901)

William "Refrigerator" Perry; Chicago Bears DL (1962)

V.S. Pritchett; English writer (1900)

Sam Robards; actor (1961)

George Santayana; Spanish philosopher (1863)

John Selden; English jurist (1584)

Shane; porn actor (1969)

JoAnn Stamm; Mom (1937)

Lesley Stahl; journalist (1941)

Liv Ullman; Norwegian actor (1939)

#Birthdays

[dearamaliabalash]

tag urself im georg

#im a bit too proud of this #yes i am transferring every post from my instagram and putting it on here and what about it #she loves me #zachary levi #laura benanti #amalia balash #georg nowack #broadway #jane krakowski #ilona ritter #gavin creel #steven kodaly #mine

[bpdjennamaroney]

reblog if you first thought “kodaly” was pronounced “ko-dall-ee”

#she loves me #steven kodaly