GO BARITONES!!
GO BARITONES!!
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#1re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/8/06 at 9:30pmI give my props to baritones. It's a hard life. And you usually have to sing the difficult/weird harmonies in the chorus.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#3re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/8/06 at 11:07pmThank you! I do love being a baritone, but sometimes I just wish I was a tenor and could hit those money notes!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#4re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/8/06 at 11:16pmI will post in honor of bwaylvsong, my personal favorite BWW baritone. He's doing Ragtime as we speak (ish, it's prob done)!
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
#5re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/8/06 at 11:37pmI mean i'm so proud to be a baritone lol as pathetic as it is! I mean I love it because my range is really strong in the middle but if I need to I can sing really low or medium high so it's kind of nice! And it's fun in show choir too because we have 8 basses and if there's baritone notes 4 of us sing those! But it's hard lol
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#6re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/9/06 at 12:16am
Aww, thanks, aspiringactress! 
And GO BARITONES (and mezzos lol).
#7re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/9/06 at 12:29amI love baritones. They're my favorite. mmmm. If I were male, I'd be a baritone.
-Was that a fart?
-My fault, I fear.
-My fault, I fear.
typecastme22
Stand-by Joined: 8/29/06
#8re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/9/06 at 10:35am
Represent!
I get the best of both worlds.......a bari-tenor you could call me I guess????
But still....baritone in choirs, etc.
Now if only I looked like I should be a baritone...that might help a little in shows.
Updated On: 12/9/06 at 10:35 AM
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#12re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/11/06 at 8:41pmwooo baritones!! i'm baritone/bass, i agree about the money notes... sucks sometimes but what can ya do? i'm 6'3", so i guess at least my voice matches the bod.. holla!
Don't you wanna be the life of the party?
#13re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/12/06 at 12:39am
I do have a little tenor envy sometimes, but I love being a baritone, especially when I get to sing really low--it makes me feel all manly 
MarkCohen
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
#14re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/12/06 at 2:09pm
I know a lot of girls who prefer the baritone sound!
Plus, we do have money notes! They are just lower. Plus, I think we sound more impressive singing some of the lower-tenor range because it's more difficult and powerful.
#15re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/12/06 at 3:54pmAMEN!! The thing that's great for me and i'm sure many other baritones out there are that are money notes are right smack dab in the middle not to high not to low!
#16re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/12/06 at 4:53pmWell I can't belt a G, but I sure can be proud of my D belt!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#17re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/12/06 at 5:05pm
My range is two octaves from G - G. Not too bad just wish i could get higher. On some days i can go a note or two above a G but with great difficulty.
#18re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/16/06 at 4:44pmmy range right now is a low E or F to a high G but i've reached an A and B before.
actormcfamous
Stand-by Joined: 1/12/06
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#20re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:51pm
My range is...
low E to high G (on a good day)
low G to high F (on a bad day)
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#21re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/31/06 at 4:31am
GO BARITONES!
We get a bad rep occasionally I feel. because with some snobs there's no in-between. High notes are only meant for sopranos and tenors who are OVERRATED and if you're a baritone who's stuck in the middle, like myself, everyone thinks every time you open your mouth to sing a high note, you're "pushing" it.
my range - Low E to high F (normally)
Low F to high G (REALLY good day)
of course, I'm more of an expressive rock/jazz/pop oriented singer, and I really don't have a classical/pure sounding voice.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
#22re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/31/06 at 11:15amI have more of a traditional broadwday mixed kind of belt. I can sing soft and tender but can also bust out some money notes. Jazz is another style that I love to sing though as well!!
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#23re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/31/06 at 1:37pmYay Baritones! We RULE!
The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
typecastme22
Stand-by Joined: 8/29/06
#24re: GO BARITONES!!
Posted: 12/31/06 at 1:45pmmy range is a low f and sometimes a g to a high a and when i'm really warmed up i can get a b and b flat.
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