I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
#1I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:28pm
After a week of 3 hour rehearsals for a Christmas show, my voice is pretty weak (not gone, but not "normal" either), and I have a solo in the performance that begins tonight, and I need something that will bring some of it back. I gulped down a huge bottle of Dasani today and it doesn't seem like it is doing much to help. Does "Throat coat" actually work?
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Updated On: 11/30/06 at 02:28 PM
#1re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:30pm
well, it helps, but won't make your voice stronger.
only vocal rest will do that. load up on the tea and lots of honey and lemon, and be quiet for the rest of the day.
I'm sure you know, but don't whisper. that makes the voice worse.
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#2re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:33pmYes . . . I am on a talking/singing strike until tonight. And I am still downing water (I have peed more in the past few hours than I have in the last couple of days). haha.
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#3re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:34pm
Be careful, too much water will actually be bad.
Throat coat is amazing.
if you have a health store or a Whole Foods market, go in there and look for Singer's Saving Grace or slippery elm spray. They're both sprays but they're not going to numb your throat the same way Chloraseptic does. They taste like death but they will REALLY help you.
#4re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:36pmNo, I don't have a health store near me (the closest one is over a hour away). Would an old fashioned drug store have some?
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#5re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:37pm
I'd call before running all over town trying to find them. Just call and ask if they have Singer's Saving grace. If not, ask if they have a slippery elm-type throat spray. Check out the ingredients of Chloraseptic, though, and make sure they don't try to pawn off a knock-off of that on you.
#6re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:38pm
I hope that tea isn't hot, first of all.
Secondly, steam, steam, steam!
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#7re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:38pm
You could try the drug store, but I doubt you're going to find it there.
Really though, as Pippin said, vocal rest is your best bet. If you're not ill and this is just due to vocal fatigue you'll probably find your voice back at close to (if not entirely) full capacity by tonight if you stay on total vocal silence the rest of today.
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#8re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:41pmThank you, ladies and gents. I am going to call the drugstore right now.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#9re: I know there have been a BILLION threads on this
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:41pm
Not to be mean, but why would you start a new thread if there were already BILLIONS?
My drama teacher SWEARS by this method: steep an onion in boiling water. When it is done steeping, use the onion water to make peppermint tea and add honey to taste. It's disgusting, but will work like a charm.
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#10help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:42pmthere's no hope. your vocal cords hate you and nothing will assuage their anger.
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#11help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:46pm
Kitzy-Poo . . . it's because I am a lazy ass bastard who can never find threads, no matter how hard I look for them (and yes, I use the search button). 
Papa . . . I knew it would happen one day.
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#12help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:46pmIf you were gay DJ I could help you.
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#13help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:48pmYou naughty boy, you! haha.
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#14help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:48pm
Kitzy, my GOD. Why don't you just tell him to swing a dead cat over his head and cuss???
And Boobsy... shame on you.
hehehehe
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#15help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:54pm
Lol. My drama teacher is one of the best actors I've ever met; I have no end of respect for him. If he suggests something, I'm going to hold stock by it.
Although the image of DJ swinging around a cat is quite appealing...
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#16help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:55pm
Besty..you do know me by now right? 
I've been trying for years now with DJ..hee hee
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#17help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:56pmb12b just wants to see someone play with some p*ssy.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#18help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:57pm
LOL!
God I love you people...
...hate...
...love...
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#19help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 2:58pmPapa won't let you down Besty.
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#20help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 3:02pmnow then, here kitzy, kitzy, kitzy...
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
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#21help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 3:03pmI knew it was only a matter of time before I got dragged into this, papa.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#22help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 3:06pmPapa likes to drag his women around.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 3:12pmcan i help it if she looks good kicking and screaming?
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#24help, i've fallen and i can't speak up
Posted: 11/30/06 at 3:17pmOk . . . I called around and no drug store has it BUT a music store has something called "Vocal Ease" all natural throat spray for singers. Anyone try this? Does it work? The reason I am asking is because I have a performance tonight, one tomorrow, two on saturday, two on Sunday, and one on Monday and there are no solo replacements.
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
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