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A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
pinoyidol2006
Broadway Star Joined: 5/3/11
#25A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:38am
Judy Kuhn
Patti LuPone
Audra McDonald
Kelli O'Hara
Lea Salonga
Gavin Creel
Raul Esparza - I don't know why, but I love his voice
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Lee Wilkof
If he were still alive - David Carroll
Not Broadway - Nathan Gunn... because he's pretty.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#26A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:38amAdding my voice to the crowd of LuPone supporters. And I would add Kate Baldwin and Victoria Clark, but neither of them drags me to a show quite like Patti does.
When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain.
-Kad
#27A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 2:03amSutton Foster and Aaron Tveit
#28A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 3:01am
Kelli O'Hara
Kate Baldwin
Brian D'Arcy James
Jason Danieley
#29A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 4:54am
In the old days, Ethel Merman, Robert Preston, & Barbara Cook
Currently:
Tyne Daly
Patti LuPone
Elaine Stritch
The above three may not have the most beautiful voices, but their exciting stage presence more than makes up for any shortcomings.
"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"
#30A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 6:10amBernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, Victoria Clark, Donna Murphy, Patti LuPone, Aaron Tveit
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Liz7
Understudy Joined: 9/1/09
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#32A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:00pm
Kaye, McDonald, Kuhn, Clark, Ebersole, Terri White.
Szot, Cariou, Wilson.
Also, call me crazy, but I'm wild about the way Stephen Colbert sang "Sorry Grateful" in Company and I'd go to see him in another musical in a heartbeat. Small voice but there's something about it.
Updated On: 8/19/11 at 12:00 PM
#33A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:04pmnevermind--not worth it.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 8/19/11 at 12:04 PM
#34A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:18pmThe only voice that could drag me out to a bad show on a cold night was Teresa Stratas. Of course, it wasn't only her voice.
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#35A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:32pmEmily Skinner! I want her voice to have my baby.
Suzanne: I never use catalogs. I'd rather go in the store and see all the salespeople groveling and sucking up to you.
Julia: Pardon me, I never knew they were so solicitous at the K-Mart.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#36A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:39pm
Actually, AC, I don't see the disconnect.
Where's the inconsistency between:
1) someone personally loving a performer's voice so much that he would go see him in a bad show, and
2) said someone stating, with reference to the same performer whose voice he cherishes, the general principle that a performer shouldn't be subjected to a different moral standard based on the degree of that performer's talent.
Unless the speaker had earlier suggested that he personally wouldn't go to see the performer in question based on moral objections, I don't see the hypocrisy.
#37A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:50pm
I find it interesting and inconsistent that the OP would state that he would go see anything Barbour was in, then chastise others on another thread for "giving Barbour a pass" because they like his voice. There seems to be a dissonance between the two statements. Somehow, saying that Barbour is your "drop everything" performer after saying "either way don't judge the girls who outed a sexual predator just because you like the way he sings "the proposal" on the jane eyre recording" doesn't ring right with me.
That said, I have no intention of getting this thread off its original topic, and I probably shouldn't have posted anything in the first place. There is enough talk of Mr. Barbour on the board already right now.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
dreaming
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/24/09
#38A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 1:00pm
Back on topic, I'd say:
Women: Donna Murphy, Betty Buckley, Julia Murney, Christine Ebersole, Bernadette Peters, Idina Menzel, Christiane Noll
Men: James Barbour (please don't open any more cans of worms, I like his voice), George Hearn, Michael Cerveris, Brian D'Arcy James, Mark Kudisch, Paolo Szot
yankeegal
Chorus Member Joined: 7/5/08
#39A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 2:08pmChester Gregory. Any show, any time. Enormous voice and stage presence.
#40A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 2:22pm
For vocie: Judy Kuhn, Adam Pascal, Rachel York, Vanessa Williams.
For performance: Elaine Stritch, Angela Lansbury, Katie Finneran.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#41A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 3:17pm
Liza
Joanna Gleason
Patti Lupone
Audra McDonald
Norm Lewis
Bernadette Peters
Tituss Burgess
Reeve Carney (Love his voice)
Chita Rivera
Streisand (If she ever did a show again)
Len Cariou
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
Updated On: 8/19/11 at 03:17 PM
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#42A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 8:38pmDonna McKechnie!
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showchoirguy
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/10
#43A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/19/11 at 9:12pm
Kate Shindle
Sutton Foster
Aaron Tveit
Audra McDonald
Norm Lewis
#44A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/20/11 at 12:25am
Bernadette Peters
Raul Esparza
There are voices I certainly admire more, but what drives me to see a performer is what the entire package does for me, and I find Bernadette Peters enchanting and Raul Esparza thrilling.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#45A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/20/11 at 12:40amI'm surprised no one mentioned Michael Arden.
#46A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/20/11 at 1:02amI saw Michael Arden in "Bare". Loved his voice. I would see a show just because he is in it but not just for his voice.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#47A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/20/11 at 10:26am
Justoldbill, I agree about Stratas!
Of course, you always knew even as you were dragging yourself out on those cold nights that the odds were good she wasn't doing the same.
Still worth it, though.
#48A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/20/11 at 10:55am
CHEYENNE JACKSON!
He could read the dictionary and it would still sound sexy!
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#49A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..
Posted: 8/21/11 at 4:36pm
Lisa Brescia
Brian D'Arcy James
Jessica Phillips
Paris Remillard
Rebecca Caine
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