#I agree the tour version was giving Overenthusiastic Youth Pastor Who Makes It About Himself lol

[rimouskis]

Tour Hermes omggggggg. I wonder if we got the same one; the guy I saw playing him had such intense Youth Pastor Energy that I couldn't take him seriously. :(

YEP THAT'S HIM. his voice was all over the place: alternately quiet and then LOUD AND BRASSY AND STYLISTIC. he would also occasionally enunciate words weirdly and idk about you but to meeeee that felt like a... bad quality in a narrator character ahahaha I was like BUDDY CHILL OUT, MY FAMILY HASN'T LISTENED TO THIS SOUNDTRACK BEFORE!! THEY NEED TO UNDERSTAND YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE PLOT!

I saw the understudy on Broadway and I didn't think of his performance as particularly standout in the way, that, say... andre de shields probably was, but I understood every word he said and he didn't distract from the story. The touring Hermes would be so catastrophically energized that it took away from the performance overall!!

Also I'm just a huge fan of intelligibility lol I have bad auditory processing skills and even as someone who has basically memorized the whole musical I had trouble understanding him sometimes. I think that's why the touring hades stood out to me so much: he had a lovely voice but almost more importantly: his singing was SO clear. you could understand every word that came out of his mouth.