A voice you would go hear even if the show was horrible..- Page 2

[pinoyidol2006]

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.

[givesmevoice]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:38am

Adding 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.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 2:03am

Sutton Foster and Aaron Tveit

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 3:01am

Kelli O'Hara
Kate Baldwin
Brian D'Arcy James
Jason Danieley

[Gypsy9]

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.

[binau]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 6:10am

Bernadette Peters, Marin Mazzie, Victoria Clark, Donna Murphy, Patti LuPone, Aaron Tveit

[Liz7]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 8:58am

Idina Menzel

[henrikegerman]

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

[AC126748]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:04pm

nevermind--not worth it.

Updated On: 8/19/11 at 12:04 PM

[justoldbill]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:18pm

The 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.

[JailyardGuy]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 12:32pm

Emily Skinner! I want her voice to have my baby.

[henrikegerman]

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.

[AC126748]

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.

[dreaming]

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]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 2:08pm

Chester Gregory. Any show, any time. Enormous voice and stage presence.

[madbrian]

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.

[uncageg]

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

Updated On: 8/19/11 at 03:17 PM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 8:38pm

Donna McKechnie!

[showchoirguy]

Posted: 8/19/11 at 9:12pm

Kate Shindle
Sutton Foster
Aaron Tveit
Audra McDonald
Norm Lewis

[Hest882]

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]

Posted: 8/20/11 at 12:40am

I'm surprised no one mentioned Michael Arden.

[uncageg]

Posted: 8/20/11 at 1:02am

I 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.

[Reginald Tresilian]

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.

[quizking101]

Posted: 8/20/11 at 10:55am

CHEYENNE JACKSON!
He could read the dictionary and it would still sound sexy!

[KylePKJP]

Posted: 8/21/11 at 4:36pm

Lisa Brescia
Brian D'Arcy James
Jessica Phillips
Paris Remillard
Rebecca Caine