i am one whom is in LOVE with female singers who can SING...and who can BELT!!!!....what songs from shows are your alltime FAVORITES for goosebump-hair raising showtune numbers?!.....
im so curious!
maybe ill hear something new!!!
All-Time Favorite Diva/Belting goosebump Inducing song?
Easy. "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/03
"Bless the Lord" from the 2000 Off-Broadway production of Godspell. Shoshana Bean can totally rock the house.
stick to priest, where is that song from?!
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/3/04
Any song sung by Ethel Merman
DREAMGIRLS.
And I'd start running before the mob comes.
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
my favorite belter is eden. she rocks!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Jennifer Holliday
Judy Kuhn
Sutton Foster
I think Gimme, Gimme is my favorite belting number of all time!
yes eden is great....there are so many great ones, i mean like the ending of wizard and i [wicked] in his eyes [jeykll and hyde] finale ultimo (dont feed the plants [little shop]....SO MANY...lets hear it guys....you know you have some good songs out there!!!!!
LadyG, I love you and your taste in music.
I'm with StickToPriest as well....when Jennifer performed it at the Leading Ladies concert, she blew every other woman there away--and she was among the BEST...
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/03
anything sung by patti lupone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
I always get chills hearing LuPone knock Rainbow High outta the ballpark:
I'm....their....SAVIOR that's what they call me!
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/28/03
"LadyG, I love you and your taste in music. "
You flatta' me, Delphine. And I'd say the same for you but I'd look like I'm brown nosing, which I'm totally not.
Besides the fact that Delphine rocks...er...
Stephanie Block from the Boy from Oz, I'd love to hear her with different material- I'm sure that she could totally bat anything out of the park! (I have weird phrases when it comes to belting.)
but which songs by these singers get you so RILED UP!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
for me eden's rendition of defying gravity blows me away. every time i listen to it i get chills.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/03
Stephanie did a great job with Defying Gravity.
Lisa Brescia as Amneris in Aida in "Every Story is a Love Story" hands down!
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
i wish that i could hear her sing that.
"The Life of the Party" as sung by Idina Menzel is mindblowing
I love "Gimme, Gimme." The way it slowly builds is great.
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Tonya Pinkins in "Caroline or Change"
The number "lots wife" had been hyped SO much before I heard it that I didn't think it could possibly live up to it's estatic praise...but it did, and suprassed it.
Tonya's belt halfway though the song (During "Slam that iron...FLAT.") dropped my jaw a good five feet. Damn, girl.
I don't have a favorite but one of the best ones is "Defying Gravity"
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Linda Eder can blow anyone away with her voice! Including our other favorites!
I've always been partial to Patti Lupone's "Buenos Aires".
I have to second "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going". Wow.
Also Heather Headley's "Easy As Life".
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