No one in your life is with you constantly
No one is completely on your side
And though I'd move my world to be with him
Still, the gap between us is too wide
Goal, to find someone who looks at you the way Cole Escola looks at Aaron Tveit when he sings... I love both Escola and Tveit, and have followed both of their careers for years. Tveit I first discovered during his turn in Next To Normal, and Escola since cracking up over his line delivery on Hulu's Difficult People.
Recently I went down the Youtube Rabbit hole of Tviet's performances in Miscast. Miscast is the annual benefit concert hosted by MCC Theater in New York City, where Broadway stars perform songs from roles they would not traditionally be cast in. The gala features famous actors singing opposite their usual type, offering thrilling, gender-bent, or otherwise unexpected renditions of iconic musical numbers. I think I discovered Miscast after seeing a video of Tveit performing Take Me or Leave Me from Rent with Gavin Creel.
I think my favorite Tveit Miscast performances is his 2022 performance of Mein Herr from Cabaret. Tveit gives it his all, and looks incredibly hot doing so. (check it out on Youtbue HERE:) For his 2025 performance, Tveit sang I Know Him So Well from Chess, about month before the revival opened on Broadway. Tveit shared his performance that night was a tribute to his friend Gavin Creel.
Cole Escola also performed that evening, singing Iowa Stubborn from The Music Man. I was struck as Aaron was singing by Escola looking so bewitched by his performance. Now, I could be reading too much into it, Escola might have been worried about just farting, or thinking about what he was having for dinner. Maybe it's because Tveit's voices so bewitches me, but watching Escola in the background was a fun highlight for me.
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