Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays- Page 2

[Buck]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:57pm

Pat Suzuki

Donna Theodore

Both had powerful belts!

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:01pm

Jack Daley

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:44pm

Pam Myers is great. I am currently working with her on a production The Full Monty (she is Jeanette). So sweet and uber talented.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:57pm

How about the late Susan Browning? Gorgeous voice but didn't get to do much after Company.
Of people who are alive I'd say Victoria Mallory (whose "Soon" hasn't been surpassed on recording, IMO), Mark Lambert, and Nine's Shelly Burch.

[ahmelie]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:59pm

Teri Ralston, easy.

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 5:36pm

Patricia Elliott
Joanna Green

[Mythus]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 5:55pm

Merle Louise was recently (November 2005 - wow, was it really over a year ago?) in The Full Monty at NSMT as Jeanette. To say I acted like a squealing fangirl when I opened the Playbill would be an understatement.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:08pm

John Reardon

[neddyfrank2]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:09pm

And it doesn't look like we'll be seeing very much of Jill Paice in the near future.

Your wish is my command. Let her open in Curtains this month *magical chant*

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:11pm

Jill Paice was on Broadway last season, she's returning to Broadway this week, and she is rumored to star in the proposed GONE WITH THE WIND musical. She has hardly been forgotten.

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:13pm

Whatever happened to Sandra Allen from the Flower Drum Song revival? I thought her voice was great.

[jewishboy]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:29pm

I think it is a shame that the Tonys never recongnized Joan Diener. She really only had two sucessfull roles and nobody can get her voice out of my head when I see other people in her roles (though Marin Mazzie does an amazing Aldonza and Lalume). She is still the queen of "fabulous ranges" in my book.

And I think Valarie Pettiford has to get her butt back to Broadway in anything that envolves dancing (she is also a dynamic singer).

And even though she has been doing concerts around the US when was the last time we saw Christiane Noll in a show?

[jewishboy]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:33pm

Oh and I agree about David Carroll. As good as Brent Barrett is (he might be forgotten soon also) after hearing David Carroll sing "Love Can't Happen" I am so upset that he is not on the recording.

[sondhead]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 8:23pm

I'm shocked that this topic hasn't brought up Jill O'Hara. That's pretty much who immediately comes to my mind. Such an interesting and fantastic voice.

I also agree with Ellen Greene. I really hate that the power belt of the 80s-early 90's has been replaced with pop nasal-y belting because the former is much awesomer. And in that vain, Marsha Skaggs / Waterbury who was a Greene follower in her day. Both have just wonderful wonderful voices that should be more in the public eye.

[mr. crawford]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:28pm

Victoria Mallory
Shirley Booth
Diahann Carroll
Michele Lee
Alice Playten
Ellen Greene
George Lee Andrews
Anthony Perkins

[americanboy99]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:40pm

ELAINE STRITCH.








just kidding.

[commasplice]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:03pm

"And even though she has been doing concerts around the US when was the last time we saw Christiane Noll in a show?"

Noll did "A Fine and Private Place" off-Broadway last year.

I agree with the people who've said Victoria Mallory - I've been listening to my Night Music OBC a lot lately. Her voice is just beautiful.

[D2]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:31pm

Susan Johnson
Jo Sullivan
Ruth Kobart
Jan Clayton
Isabel Bigley
Mary McCarty
Joan Roberts

Alfred Drake
John Raitt
George Gaynes
Larry Kert
William Tabbert
Russell Nype


the list could go on forever...

[jv92]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 10:35pm

Drake and Raitt will not be forgotten. Nor will Robert Preston. They were megastars in their day and their performances live on in the minds of everyone who saw them. (Plus the film of The Pajama Game (Raitt) and Music Man (Preston))
I know she's done cabaret work and such, but I'd love to see Karen Akers back in a musical one day. Her last appearance was Grand Hotel, was it not? Her best work was in Nine. As much as I loved Liliane in Folies Bergeres, Ms. Akers was superlative as Luisa Contini. How did she not win the Tony?!

[sondhead]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 11:52pm

All this talk of Victoria Mallory made me find her recording of "Not a Day Goes By" from the Collector's Sondheim set. I have no idea what other event or recording it is originally from but it's pretty wonderful.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/24/07 at 11:57pm

I absolutely love Jeff Edgerton in the Parade OBC, and I've looked everywhere to see if he's done other work, and found nothing! All I know is that he was the Leo Frank understudy and was also in the US tour.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 2:57am

I enjoy Karen Akers in the Nine cast recording very much but I think the question on everyone's lips during Tony night in 1982 was why Anita Morris did not win the Tony, from what I've read/heard she gave one of the best featured performances in recent Broadway history.
Alas, she died too soon and we didn't get to see more of her brilliant after Nine though people who saw her in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas say she was brilliant in that show as well. Tommy Tune let her choreograph "A Call From the Vatican," that's how much trust he had in her.
Mallory's "Not A Day Goes By" is beautiful, I got it from the Collector's Set as well. I think her "I Remember" is even better though.

[Julian2]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 3:39am

Linzi Hateley

[AC126748]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 7:57am

Linzi Hateley is huge in London, where she is currently (or about to start) playing Donna in MAMMA MIA. In the years since CARRIE, she's played so many roles in the West End, including originating Mrs. Banks in MARY POPPINS, Martha in THE SECRET GARDEN, Angel in THE RINK, et al. She may be forgotten on these shores, but she's still pretty ubiquitous in England.

[mallardo]

Posted: 2/25/07 at 10:35am

Catherine Cox. What a voice.