Posted: 9/25/17 at 3:01am
qolbinau said: "I guess what is difficult about the Merman recording for me is to my ears it sounds like a rather straight interpretation of the score. It seems like over time to play Rose you need to make her sound more desperate or angry or emotionally-heightened (not sure if that is even a phrase), whereas Merman seems to be from a different time where it was sufficient to just sing the score well as written without too much on top. I call this ‘on top’ acting butacknowledge some might call this over-engineered and over the top."
You're certainly not wrong, but that was the type of singing for which the show was originally written. And the question was "definitive", wasn't it?
ETA: My bad. The question was phrased as "best", not "definitive", so point taken. If one wants to hear Rose's notes as they are written on the page--including the triplets in "Everything's Coming Up Roses"--the best bet is probably (1) LuPone or (2) Lansbury.
Updated On: 9/25/17 at 03:01 AM
