Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays- Page 2
Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
#25re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 4/21/06 at 2:57pm
Pat Suzuki
Donna Theodore
Both had powerful belts!
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#26re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 4/21/06 at 3:01pmJack Daley
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#27re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:44pmPam Myers is great. I am currently working with her on a production The Full Monty (she is Jeanette). So sweet and uber talented.
CCM '10!
#28re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#29re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 4:59pmTeri Ralston, easy.
Theatre is a safe place to do the unsafe things that need to be done.
-John Patrick Shanley
#30re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 5:36pm
Patricia Elliott
Joanna Green
"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
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#31re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 5:55pmMerle 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#32re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:08pmJohn Reardon
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#33re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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*
#34re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:11pmJill 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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#35re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:13pmWhatever happened to Sandra Allen from the Flower Drum Song revival? I thought her voice was great.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#36re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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?
#37re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 6:33pmOh 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
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#38re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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.
#39re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#40re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 9:40pm
ELAINE STRITCH.
just kidding.
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#41re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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.
#42re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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...
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#43re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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
Broadway Star Joined: 10/25/06
#44re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 11:52pmAll 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#45re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/24/07 at 11:57pmI 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.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#46re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#47re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/25/07 at 3:39amLinzi Hateley
I have several names, one is Julian2. I am also The Opps Girl. But cross me, and I become Bitch Dooku!
#48re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/25/07 at 7:57amLinzi 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.
"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
#49re: Best Voices from Broadway People That Everyone Has Forgotten Nowadays
Posted: 2/25/07 at 10:35amCatherine Cox. What a voice.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
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