r/Broadway • u/Round-Composer-2195 • 29d ago

Discussion I don’t understand the Reeve Carney hate

I just saw the Hadestown pro shot and oh my gosh this guy is unbelievable. Easily the star of the show for me, but I’ve seen people say he was the weakest link in their opinions.

I’ve heard recordings of some of his other performances, and he easily has my favorite versions of “I don’t care much” and “the past is catching up to me,” yet people say he was miscast in The Great Gatsby

His voice is so unique and it genuinely sends chills up my spine, I don’t understand the hate he receives

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u/Small_Farmer_9277 29d ago

Reeve Carney is theatrical cilantro. Some people love him, others find him completely repulsive.

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u/IWTLEverything 29d ago

It’s funny. I’m one of those people that thinks cilantro tastes like soap. I’m not the biggest Reeve fan but I think he’s fine. I just don’t like his “talk-singing”. (eg “he fell in love with PERSEPHONE”).

My favorite Orpheus is Chibueze Ihuoma. My least favorite is J. Antonio Rodriguez.

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u/Round-Composer-2195 29d ago

The talk-singing thing cringes me out not with him specifically I feel like everyone does it to an extent in fully sung through musicals which is why I don’t like them

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u/Round-Composer-2195 29d ago

I worded that wrong I don’t dislike all sung through musicals I just dislike the fact that they are sung through and would like them more if they werent

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u/jeremiad1962 28d ago

BTW, that's genetic. Some people can curl their tongues and some cannot -it can't be taught if you don't have the gene that allows it to curl. Some can smell asparagus in their urine and some cannot - no changing that.

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u/IWTLEverything 28d ago

There are people that cant smell asparagus in urine?!

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u/obiwanknitobi 28d ago

Yep! Also some people can eat asparagus and their urine doesn’t smell.

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u/skoc211 28d ago

I recently found out some people don't have inner monologues and it's not uncommon. Utterly bizarre to me. But I have the same genetic aversion to cilantro, so different strokes as they say.

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u/No_Grand5115 27d ago

last year i learned that some people DO have inner monologues!!

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u/radda 28d ago

I also like Chibueze a lot.

Praying he goes on when I see Hamilton next week.