The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#0The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/7/06 at 11:39amWhere are the people with the BAD singing voices in these musical universes? Are they killed? Are children who cannot sing considered "imperfect" and are thusly "eliminated"?
gumbo2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/21/05
#1re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/7/06 at 10:12pmDo you mean like in the world of the show everyone is a great singer? I don't quite understand. But if that's what you mean, the original Nathan Detroit was completely tone-deaf. And Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady spoke almost everything.
#2re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 1:41amOur Nathan was basically tone deaf, too.
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#3re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 1:57am
There are lots of people with 'bad' singing voices in theatre. Ethel Merman, for example, was never considered to have the voice of a belle. And yet she is one of the greats of theatre
Joel Gray isnt the greatest singer either, Though I find his tone and timbre quite compelling
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MarkRascati
Broadway Star Joined: 5/24/06
#4re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 2:00amEthel Merman's voice was recognizible, and that's what made her great
#5re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 2:01amYou guys aren't getting what he means.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
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Posted: 7/8/06 at 2:14am
I think, I'll kick this off CORRECTLY. . . .gosh, no one can take a joke.
I think the children that can't sing are sent to special schools. Where they learn to be janitors and grandparents, beacuse they never have to sing anything.
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#7re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 3:45am
I get it.
I laughed.
...........im so tired.
and the correct term for janitor is "custodial engineer". Not trying to be pretentious, just think its very interesting. Thought I'd mention it.
#8re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 4:02am
Woman, there there is no need for P.C. terms here. JANITOR. . . . . I'm just sayin'. And like I said, they never have any good songs so in the musical theater world they don't matter. . . like techies. 
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I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#10re: The Most Deppressing Thing About Musicals
Posted: 7/8/06 at 3:23pmI'm kidding. I <3 Techies and custodial engineers.
I have NEVER met Cheyenne Jackson. I have never hung out with him in his dressing room, he did not tweet me, he never bought me a beverage, and he mostly certainly didn't tickle me. . .that is all.
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