Norm Lewis

Yeah.

I do think that Russell Crowe's in a different movie, and I do think he doesn't have the sense of foreboding that a Norm Lewis has.

Right.

Norm Lewis is a Broadway actor who has done Javert before.

in the 25th anniversary concert i think is when he's also done that and he just has like a gravitas that's like you were you can be terrified of this man javert like russell crowe has javert like it's just a guy right which isn't scary like

yeah

This theater is called the Dr. Philip Center and it's like the big touring theater in Orlando.

It opened in 2014 and I got chosen to be a soloist at like the opening night with like Sierra Boggess and Norm Lewis.

It was like insane.

And so I knew about it because I had connections to that theater and they were like, oh, we do this thing called the applause awards and we're going to be going to your school because I knew what school I went to and they were collecting schools at the time to start the applause awards.

Like, we n- know that he's gonna blend these two styles.

For people getting mad at Gerard Butler's singing style, I would also like to ask you, are you mad at Norm Lewis's performance?

No.

Because watching the bootleg with Norm Lewis, I noticed a lot of similarities in vocal tone, particularly moments where he decided to use straight tone instead of vibrato.

Nobody's mad at Norm Lewis.

I would argue he's one of the best Phantoms.

I really like his performance as the Phantom.

I just don't like that performance.

I think it will change day to day.

Um, I, so Norm, Norm Lewis's birthday was yesterday.

Um, I would say sideshow today.

I think I've been listening to sideshow yesterday.

Like, you can have a lot of different points of view.

That'd be fun.

Plus, I could listen to Norm Lewis on repeat.

Of course.

... change in the middle of a scene.

Like, that is not something an actor can pull off-

Right, right

... easily because you need to be so internalized in order to get that external reaction.

The thing, and, uh, the only reason I'm bringing that up, it's, you know, I'm not bringing up h- It's because w- uh, watching...

This was before all of that happened, and you...

I forgot how much promise he showed as a young actor-

Right