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#26

A 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.
#27

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

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.
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
#30

A 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!"
#33

A 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

#34

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

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

nevermind--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

#35

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

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.
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....
#36

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

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

Emily 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.
#37

A 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.
#38

A 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
#39

A 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
#41

A 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
#42

A 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

#45

A 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.
#48

A 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.

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