Best Compliment On Your Singing Voice You've Ever Recieved?- Page 2

[mattonstage]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 12:58am

I did a production of The King and I, I played Lun Tha. I was asked numerous times after performances why my co-star was mouthing along to my singing. She wasn't. She was singing as well.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 1:48am

When I did musicals in high school, I would always get the worse compliments ever, like "Man I guess you just sucked ass at your audition" or "You don't suck enough to be in the chorus" or something equally cringe-worthy. The weirdest/coolest compliment I got was when my best friend and I saw Dirty Rotten Scoundrels in Boston, and after the show, we were standing outside the stage door and I was singing Here I Am, and some women came over and told me how I was her favorite in the show, and she hopes I don't stay touring for long, and maybe I should try to be on American Idol if the "whole Broadway thing doesn't work out." I was floored and my friend made fun of me for about 2 weeks.

Updated On: 1/29/08 at 01:48 AM

[HorseTears]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 1:48am

In 2001, I sang at a wedding in Los Angeles at around the time that Donnie Darko came out. Mr. Gyllenhaall was an attendee at the wedding (friend of the bride's family, I believe.)

He told me that I "sing straight from the heart." I thanked him for his kind words, having no idea who he was until I saw Donnie Darko on DVD a few months later at which point I was pretty chuffed.

[insertclevernamehere]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 1:54am

I actually only read this thread after I posted and Oh my God doodlenyc, the same thing happened to me! I actually stopped cantoring (sp) soon after because I was so freaked out.

[kec]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 1:01pm

After I sang a solo in church several years ago, I got a letter from someone in the congregation thanking me for singing the song (The Holy City), and complimented me on my voice.

Also several years ago, I was playing tourist in Hershey PA. At the time they had a trolly tour that included sing-alongs of some old tunes like Bye By Blackbird, and patriotic songs like God Bless America. After the tour was over, I wandered around a bit in the town, then drove up to the Hershey Hotel. As I pulled into a parking place, the car next to me was pulling out. The driver was the man I was sitting next to on the tour. When he saw me, he said, "ah, it's the lady with the beautiful voice."

That made my day.

[worrell4077]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 4:11pm

Not that many people I know have heard me sing, but I sang awhile back on a class trip to this haunted hayride, haunted house thing at karokee and one of my teachers called me the Elvis of the class and another teacher jokingly said did you get a record deal yet?

I auditioned for past two musicals at my college and I didn't hear feedback, but I made it to the callbacks, but then I didn't make it.

Only a couple of people in my family had heard me sing and I performed in my first recital last June and I sang Can't Take My Eyes Off You. As soon as it was over, my dad said to me, "Where have you been hiding that voice?" A teacher of mine came and said I was great and asked if I was nervous and I was like didn't you hear me at the beginning(my voice was shaky). One of the organizers came up to me and said that I did great and that I'm fun to watch perform.

I just sang this morning infront of my Acting II class. We had to pick a song and first perform it as a monologue and then sing it and I sang Barber and His Wife from Sweeney and even though my professor didn't give me feedback, I'm assuming she thought it was great. My whole class applaud afterwards.

[Mythus]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 7:54pm

I get a lot of "I could hear you over everyone else." Kids in middle school/high school musicals aren't known for singing very loud (even/especially with microphones). I assume that the people telling me this actually enjoy hearing me over everyone else.

Actually, the best compliment I got was during warmups in high school. We took turns singing a line from the show to see if the director/musical director/whoever at the back of the theatre could hear us. I sang a line and everyone stopped and someone leaned out of the line and said, "Woah, who was that?" and the boy next to me said, "I don't want to go next, that just made me feel terrible about my voice."

[lildogs]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 7:56pm

I was told, "amazingly adequate" to which I replied, "mesmerizingly mediocre"

[lovelyspotlight]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 8:07pm

Somebody after a performance of Beauty and the Beast told me that they like my voice better than Angela Lansbury's. Now, I took this as a great compliment, but I was 17 at the time and don't necessarily WANT to sound like Angela Lansbury...

But still, it was nice!

[ladycroft]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 9:07pm

...well, my mom likes to say that I sing like a dying cat...or that I sound like her when I'm singing...I tend to say that I'm not good, but I'm not horrid. And others tend to say that I'm decent for someone who can't even sing a note properly. *Grins.* 5 or so years of piano, and I can play the note perfectly, yet I can't sing it.

So, I just sing in my car, or around friends who I sing well with.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 9:14pm

A bunch of people holding up lighters and candles after my entirely sober rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody at a karaoke bar.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 9:18pm

I heard this about my acting "YOUR'E THE F*CKING MAN!~I LOVE YOU! YOUR'E AWESOME!"

[CMoore]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 9:41pm

I sang one time and this guy was really nice. He talked about how he wasn't really a spiritual guy and didn't believe in a lot. Then he said when I sang he felt closer to God than he had ever in his life. He said I had the voice of an angel. It sounds way cheesy, but I thought it was nice. Recently I have been kind of doubting my singing career and being more realistic. But I sing every single day at work for guests and I get at least one comment saying that I need to pursue it, that I was born to sing. Maybe people are just being nice haha...

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 11:27pm

I've gotten far too many to remember the actual best compliment.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 11:29pm

When I auditioned for Into the Woods and sang "Agony" the director told me "GREAT way to sell that song!"

I don't get many compliments, since I'm not a trained, pretty voiced singer. But that's one I'll remember.

[dancingthrulife04]

Posted: 1/29/08 at 11:45pm

When I was in high school we had separate dancing and singing choruses for our musicals. For Guys and Dolls, they wanted the dancers to sing for them, but it wasn't required. I was really ill with strep at the time of auditions, and decided that I wouldn't sing. I told the director that I just wanted to dance. She said that was okay, so I went on with the dance auditions. I got a lot of compliments from the choreographer, and I thought I was sure to get in as a dancer. When the list went up, I was a bit surprised that I wasn't on it. When the final cast list went up, I found myself on it as a singer. She said that she hadn't understood why I wouldn't sing, and since she knew I could she put me in the show anyway.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 1/30/08 at 12:28am

Well, the Pittsburgh Post Gazette said that in "Kiss of the Spider Woman" I sang like Robert Preston and that they meant it as a compliment. And when I was in "Aspects of Love" they said that out of a cast of talented singers, I was the most gifted.

And in December, I had a solo with "My Simple Christmas Wish" in a Christmas choral concert and the audience wouldn't stop clapping until I took another bow.

Forgive me for going on, but I haven't been cast in ANYTHING for almost a year now and a show that I had a callback for and didn't get is opening soon and has posters all over town and I'm trying to remember the good experiences I've had and not give into the temptation to try to Peanut M&M myself to death.