I found Uwe's singing rather painful as Van Helsing as well. Though on the recording they managed to mix him so that he sounded tolerable. But on a whole, his voice has gone to hell in the past few years. A while ago I listened to some older stuff with him and remembered why I used to like him; he did use to be nice to listen to, even if he never had much of a singing technique. But he's just awful nowadays, he can't hit his notes right and sounds really harsh and shrill most of the time. I just can't fathom how he's going to sound tolerable as Taaffe. He's bad enough in the press conference clip, and the way he's singing it, you can tell he's forcing out his voice because that's the only way he can try to project the required power, and that's going to destroy his voice. I mean, if it doesn't go like this I'll be glad, but having watched how he's been over the past few years, I don't see how it's going to be anything else.

Of course, it doesn't help that the first time I actually heard Uwe live in anything was the infamous Musical Forever concert where he was so bad the CD production company had to take a couple of extra months to remove any trace of him on the CD before it could be released.

A pity if you can't come to Budapest in the near future, that'd be fun. Though I guess Rómeó és Júlia will play there for quite some time yet. I wonder for how much longer Attila is going to play Romeo. His fans will riot if he doesn't, of course, but at some point he might start to seem too old for the part?