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" You wouldn't confuse him for Joel based on appearance alone " The crowd roared its approval â€â€? standing, clapping, hollering, cheering him on billyjoel com Michael Cavanaugh: http://www "Since age 7, the guy's been my musical hero as a performer and a writer," Cavanaugh says "He's going to get that Billy Joel soundalike thing, all the material is Billy Joel material michaelcavanaugh But one of Joel's associates, who was also at New York-New York that night, recommended that Tharp audition Cavanaugh for the show Joel started the song himself, but after the first verse he surrendered the keyboard to Cavanaugh, who played and belted the lyrics with conviction And if the show is a hit, is that a good thing for him or not? Who knows? But it could also be a starmaker vehicle Cavanaugh is tall, light-haired and a good two decades younger than the diminutive Joel, whose hair is dark and graying Cavanaugh has nine months left on his "Movin' Out" contract; if the show is a hit, he will stay with it at least that long Since then, Cavanaugh's professional relationship with Joel has extended past the boundaries of the musical "I think he's a talented writer " Cavanaugh has made some contacts at Sony, because the record company is doing the show's cast album On the final night of Joel's recent concert tour with Elton John, Cavanaugh joined his hero on stage at Long Island's Nassau Coliseum to sing and play one song: "Movin' Out," of course Last February, his manager dropped by the bar, unannounced, with a famous client: the Piano Man himself He's not Joel, though The two-hour "Movin' Out," which follows four friends from high school in the 1960s to the aftermath of the Vietnam War, has practically no dialogue: It is almsot entirely singing and dancing Joel faded into the background, shaking a tambourine and dancing with a backup singer But he worries that fans will think, "nothing but Billy Joel," he says Audiences have been responding with equal enthusiasm to Cavanaugh's performances in "Movin' Out He growls his way through "Shameless," croons prettily on "She's Got a Way" and tosses off the devilishly hard piano passages in "Angry Young Man" with apparent ease He's more of an old-school songwriter in that he uses real chords, he plays a real instrument and he harkens back to another era " Two years ago, Cavanaugh was supporting his wife and 6-year-old son as a bar pianist in New York-New York, a Manhattan-themed casino in Las Vegas " At a recent performance, his bow received easily the most calamitous applause of the evening "People ask me if I would consider acting, and I guess I would, but my main love is performing music," he says "They're great, they've been really nice and very complimentary," he says, before imposing a reality check I'm just singing his songs, and obviously I'll phrase things the way he does â€â€? that's the way I've always heard it, so that's the way it's going to come out "I was nervous about how the crowd would react, because they paid to see Billy," says Cavanaugh His name is Michael Cavanaugh "But then again, I have a deal with them singing Billy Joel songs, and that's the only deal I have com So we'll see And six nights a week, he performs more than 20 of Joel's songs in "Movin' Out," the new Broadway musical directed and choreographed by Twyla Tharp "He had really good musicianship, he could play a song at the drop of a hat, he had energy, he had pipes," Joel says com Billy Joel: http://www Besides cheering his fiery performances of Joel's songs, audiences seem to respond to his stamina "But I never wanted to be his imitator "It's hard," Joel says Joel agrees that that's a valid concern movinoutonbroadway From the bubblegum-and-bobby-socks nostalgia of the first act through the much darker second act â€â€? in which the main characters lose themselves in a haze of drinking and casual sex â€â€? Cavanaugh's energy never seems to flag "But they knew it was just for one song, and they seemed to enjoy it, so that made me feel great But there already is a Billy Joel recalls being impressed by Cavanaugh's act "I don't want to just be known as 'the Billy Joel guy,'" Cavanaugh says "That's certainly no offense to Billy, because Billy's my favorite " â€â€?â€â€?â€â€? On the Net: "Movin' Out": http://www After that, he plans to compose original music and perhaps perform his songs â€â€? which he describes as influenced primarily by Joel and the Beatles â€â€? in nightclubs around New York The audition, combined with Joel's endorsement, was enough to land Cavanaugh the job And he'd like people to remember that 'Movin' Out' Star Seeks Recognition Oct 23, 6:01 PM EST NEW YORK (AP) â€â€? His singing voice sounds eerily like Billy Joel's â€â€? a weary tenor, ragged in the higher registers He wasn't specifically looking for someone to sing his songs in "Movin' Out" â€â€? Tharp ultimately made all the casting decisions herself His piano playing is almost as splashy as the Piano Man's "He leads you through this journey, this circus of characters " Published in monthly installments, Dickens' tales presented earthy working-class characters, sharp commentary on ill treatment of the poor, and melodramatic cliffhangers that "teased the story out over time and were so seductive the audience would have to come back a month later and buy the next one," said Logan, whose credits include "Gladiator" and "Star Trek: Nemesis Prolific Dickens Adapted to Screen Dec 27, 1:51 AM EST This guy Dickens seems to be one of Hollywood's busiest writers Appropriately for an author whose books can run to 800 or 900 pages, the list of Dickens adaptations is expansive "You could argue that Dickens is the greatest storyteller," said Douglas McGrath, director of the new "Nicholas Nickleby," which stars Charlie Hunnam in the title role and features a huge ensemble cast including Christopher Plummer, Jim Broadbent, Nathan Lane, Jamie Bell and Anne Hathaway You could argue he created more indelible characters than anyone else "Shakespeare, Dickens, why have they endured so well? It's got to be that they speak to the audience The Internet Movie Database lists 167 projects based on Dickens' works (Shakespeare has 494), stretching back to scenes from "Oliver Twist" adapted for short silent films in the late 1890s "A Christmas Carol" alone has been filmed in endless variations, including Alastair Sim's perennial favorite 1951 version, Albert Finney's 1970 musical "Scrooge," Bill Murray's 1988 comedy "Scrooged," Vanessa Williams' recent TV take "A Diva's Christmas Carol," and incarnations featuring Mickey Mouse, the Muppets and Mr "With these kind of eponymous roles in Dickens, the title character often is the straight-laced one," said Hunnam, who plays Nicholas with an earnest naivete The full book was adapted in a 1947 British film and several times for television, including a nine-hour 1982 rendition, newly released on DVD, that was adapted from a Royal Shakespeare Company stage production Not above them, not below them For his version, which runs just over two hours, McGrath had to narrow the scope, dropping or reducing the roles of secondary characters and focusing on Nicholas " Scenes from "Nicholas Nickleby" were made into film shorts during the silent-movie era "He writes wonderful dialogue Since then, there have been David Lean's classic 1940s versions of "Great Expectations" and "Oliver Twist"; the musical "Oliver!", which won the best picture Academy Award for 1968; and multiple productions of "David Copperfield," "A Tale of Two Cities," "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "The Pickwick Papers," among others `Nickleby' alone has 15, 18 characters who are just as vivid as they could be Probably no author besides Shakespeare has had so many works produced for film and television as Charles Dickens, whose latest screen adaptation is a new version of "Nicholas Nickleby," which opens Friday Sparkling, vicious, romantic, whatever you need, it's there " "He was getting inside the viscera of his characters, which is exactly what movies allow you to do and why we see his stuff on screen so many times," Logan said " Dickens is a popular source for filmmakers because, like Shakespeare, he wrote for the masses, not a literary elite, said screenwriter John Logan, a Dickens enthusiast who owns a first edition of "David Copperfield " They look straight in your eyes and talk to you Magoo Even when he's biding his time and just telling back story, his back story is more interesting than most people's front story The plucky hero encounters rascally villains and colorful, kindhearted souls as he tries to make his fortune after his father leaves the family penniless With strong central characters around whom the action swirls, "Nicholas Nickleby," "Oliver Twist" and other early Dickens novels lend themselves more to film treatment than dense and diffuse later works such as "Bleak House," McGrath said |
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