At Green Music Center, Kevin Spacey sings - Santa Rosa Press Democrat
He was already one of the most gifted and persuasive actors in Hollywood in an early role as gimpy con artist Verbal Kint in “The Usual Suspects,” which landed him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. One of his first-ever roles in musical theater was as Captain von Trapp, singing “Edelweiss” in “The Sound of Music” his senior year at Chatsworth High School in San Fernando Valley. Several decades later, before presenting the Monte Cristo Award to Christopher Plummer (famous for his role in the film version of “The Sound of Music”), Spacey confessed: “That’s right. I played Captain Von Trapp in my high school production of ‘The Sound of Music,’ co-starring the wonderful Mare Winningham as Maria. Most often, he sings like an actor playing the part of a singer, which is not a bad thing when he’s nailing the role of Bobby Darin, as he did in the 2004 film “Beyond the Sea. A genius impersonator (see his takes on Christopher Walken or Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”), Spacey is basically miming Darin on stage. If you saw the PBS special, “Billy Joel: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize” last January, then you know Spacey can at least kick off a decent “Piano Man. ” He opens with a breezy harmonica, backed by Joel on the piano, and then summons a dive-bar tone for the first verse about the old man “making love to his tonic and gin. Source: www.pressdemocrat.com
