Amazing but short women on Broadway

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Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 6:51pm

Like myself, I've often heard comments like: "Wow, she's so tiny, how could she sing so well? How could a big sound like that come out of a little woman like her?"

I've noticed that a lot of Broadway leading ladies are pretty tiny. People always say how short they are in real life.

Are there any notably tall ladies on Broadway?

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 6:53pm

Isn't Sutton pretty sizable?

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 6:59pm

Kerry Butler is pretty short. During LSOH she looked so tall on stage, but when i met her at the stage door, she was so short (but cute ).
Jennifer Cody is pretty short too.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:02pm

I think (s)he was asking for tall women on Broadway. Jennifer Laura Thompson is fairly tall.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:10pm

whoops...misread.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:26pm

Ummm...you're not seriously starting a THREAD about this...not...seriously...

How about a thread called, Amazing but brunette women on Broadway. or Amazing but blue-eyed women on Broadway. They would be just as relevant - which is to say, not at all. What does someone's height have to do with their talent? Whether they are singers, actors, or doctors?

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Updated On: 10/29/04 at 07:26 PM

#7

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:34pm

Cheno!!!

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:35pm

Why start a thread asking about tall leading ladies...then call it "amazing but short women on Broadway?" Is there some subtlety I'm not grasping here?

#9

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:36pm

Yeah, it confused me as well.

#10

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:39pm

Actually JoizeyActor, almost all of the leading ladies I know of are on the tall side---and this is a really dumb topic.

But I answered it, so I retract that comment.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 7:40pm

Now that you've edited your first post, I still find the whole thing irrelevant. Someone's size has nothing to do with the "size" of their voice. This is coming from a 5'0" singer who never, EVER understood that point of view. Your height has nothing to do with your voice. End of story.

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#12

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 8:39pm

Corine! She's short, and her posts always amaze me.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 8:46pm

i'd say Orfeh,Julie Hanson,Carly Jibson for small

for tall Cady Huffman,Karen Mason

Updated On: 10/29/04 at 08:46 PM

#14

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 9:16pm

kristin chenoweth, kerry butler,...there are many others. it really doesn't matter how tall or short you are though.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 9:21pm

I'm amazing. I'm short. I'm on Broadway right at this very moment.

<-- Goes to Columbia - it's between B'way and Amsterdam.

Sorry, I had to.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:55pm

Im going to have to go with Cheno. or Kathy Brier (sp) is short.

Updated On: 10/29/04 at 10:55 PM

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 10:58pm

You want an all time classic short gal with a huge voice? Alice Playten.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 11:17pm

Cathy Rigby

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/29/04 at 11:45pm

Sutton Foster is a bit tall.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 12:16am

Sigh. Silly people.

I'm not saying that they are bad singers because they are short. It's just that I think that most people don't expect these short people to create such a big sounds. I suppose they are assuming that only a large person can create such loud noises.

I'm just pointing out what I've heard. Even on this board people are always saying: "I can't believe she was so small!"

Almost all the leading ladies I've met have all been relatively short in stature. It's just something I've noticed.

#21

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 12:18am

And I'm sorry Rathnait62 and Littlefish that my posts aren't UNBEARABLY stimulating like discussions of who will take over Elphaba or which Broadway star is absent this week.

Oi vey.

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re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 12:44am

lol, I like the amazing *but* short. it almost sounds like amazing is the opposite of short now.

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#23

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:42am

This thread is so unecessary but just to clarify, it's not exactly justified to put Kerry Butler and Orfeh in a thread with Cheno and Jibson and Cody. While Butler and Orfeh may not be as statuesque as Foster and Huffman, they tower over the "munchkinlanders" like Cheno, et al. And I'm with Raith, here's an area where size is of no relevance whatsoever... The ones that are "awesome and amazing", are awesome and amazing just because they are. Height, or lack thereof, has less than nothing to do with it.

#24

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:45am

well stated, Al.


Sarah Gettelfinger is a tall drink of water at 6'0". cady Huffman's first replacement as Ulla towered above 6'0" I believe..

#25

re: Amazing but short women on Broadway

Posted: 10/30/04 at 5:48am

Not to mention the current obsessions, Menzel and Espinosa are both under 5'6", hardly catwalk material. But I've already said more than this topic *deserves*.