I’m a huuuge lover of theater, opera, concerts, any sort of live performances really. Recently, though, I’ve been on a huge Broadway run, watching shows on youtube, and then coming over to here to discuss and read previous discussions! It was in one of my rabbithole research sessions that I found out that Kelsey Grammer was in a production of Sweeney Todd in 1999!
I was completely dumbfounded, and even though I adore his voice, my initial thought was “This is such a huge miscast!”. Boy, was I wrong! I’m linking the one video of his performance I could find, and it’s SPECTACULAR. Granted, it’s very hard to work with Christine Baranski and mess it up… but the work is just incredible! The intonation, the humor, the chemistry, all very very good. Frasier discusses new recipe for meat pies with a girlfriend …
Now, the thing that I was wondering was: would this be Frasier Crane approved? More than once has he showed disdain for musicals and more “commercial” shows, although I remember him granting Candide an exception. Now, that one is a particular “musical”, since it could be classified as an operetta, and it was composed by Bernstein! HOWEVER, even though Sweeney Todd is more of a traditional musical in all senses, it does share a little something with Candide thatms more than worth nothing: they were both written by Sondheim (alright, in the latter he only contributed, but still!).
Opinions? Xx

From Broadcasting and Network, September 1995

I think it happened overnight!

Who in the show do you identify with or relate to the most?

While I’d like to think I’m more of a Frasier, a friend recently told me I’m actually a hybrid between Niles and Martin.

Their reasoning was that I have an eye for detail, and love a good intellectual "well, actually" moment, but I tend to balance it with Martin’s grounded, no nonsense, zero sugarcoating perspective.

I know that I'm going to get Tons of hate from the fandom from the fans, but this has been bothering me for a long time, how audiences are able to tolerate it, now I'm fine with people liking these two, and I don't hate them or Frasier itself but it does feel a bit annoying when Frasier and Niles look down on innocent working class people because their not into Sherry, Literature or Opera, they look down on anything common like mainstream TV, and Pop culture and I know that the comedy is meant to puncture, but it still doesn't feel that much of a satisfying comeuppance because they don't learn and not only that, every time Frasier yells at someone as he does in nearly episode, I find it quite nasty of him, the times in the early seasons where Niles is rude to Roz disgusts me, it satisfies me when Roz does something to get revenge such as licking on his book, that as he says "One smudge decreases it value" or when she attempts to spit a rasin at him, and then Frasier blocking a parking garage over a $2 fine and blocking innocent working class people who have got places to go to and doesn't get arrested or anything he just gets away with it the pompous bastard