Broadway's best voices — Page 2

#26

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 1:41pm

Daphne Rubin Vega - especially when she was in Les Miz

Just the purest, most angelic voice I have ever heard on a Broadway stage.

#27

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 1:44pm

The range, depth, and sheer power of Sara Ramirez's voice is astounding.

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#28

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 2:34pm

James Barbour by far... Brian D'arcy James in a close second!

#29

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 4:58pm

Patti LuPone, Rachel York, Ruthie Henshall, Audra McDonald, Mary Martin, Marin Mazzie, Laura Osnes, Kelli O'Hara, Brent Barrett

#30

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 5:15pm

Female: Kristy Cates, Lisa Brescia, Audra McDonald, Kelli O'Hara, Stephanie J. Block, Carolee Carmello, Kerry Butler, Sutton Foster, Kate Shindle.

Male: Gavin Creel, Matthew Morrison, Cheyenne Jackson, Patrick Wilson.

#31

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:19pm

Female: Kristin Chenoweth, Sutton Foster

Male: Gavin Creel

#32

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 7:37pm

As far as the boys, Gavin Creel's voice is so powerful and pure and even though I will get heat for it, I LOVE Josh Strickland's soulful belting. I think he has a terrific voice.

As far as the ladies, I was surprised to see no one list Christine Ebersole yet. Her voice is sublime on every level. A master class in singing. She's my favorite.

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#33

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 8:01pm

Alli Mauzey....beautiful soaring soprano and incredibly powerful belt! She has truly mastered her instrument :)

Plus of course Kristin Chenoweth!

#34

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:23pm

James Barbour (he has no peer); plus Douglas Sills, Steve Pasquale (when is he going to star in a musical?), Audra McDonald and Stephanie J. Block come to mind immediately. From the past: Sally Ann Howes.

#35

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 5/31/10 at 9:40pm

Idina Menzel

I'm not one of those young, screaming, never seen a show before girls either. I know she doesn't necessarily sing healthily or properly, but there's just something about the tone and rawness of her voice that I love. It's very unique and is always full of emotion (even when she is flat or screaming lol).

#36

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 1:49am

I have to say, Sherri Renee Scott, Mandy Gonzalez, Audra McDonald
Betty Buckley, Patti Lupone & Lilias White for her work in Fela and The Life....
Gavin, James Barbour, Will Chase, Robert Spencer, John Lloyd Young,
Robert Cuccioli, John Gallager Jr.

#37

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 1:56am

Kicking it old school real fast to say John Raitt (no one, but no one, sings "Soliloquy" like him), Barbara Cook, Carol Lawrence, and Donna McKechnie.

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#38

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 2:00am

"John Raitt (no one, but no one, sings "Soliloquy" like him)"

What do you think of this (Anthony Warlow's) rendition?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v00lsa0_mhg

I find it transcendently amazing.

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#39

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 2:06am

It's beautiful, but I don't know, something about Raitt's version is untouchable to my ears. Warlow's rendition is stunning, but John Raiit gets under the song in a way I just love.

And when he chooses to go up the B flat at the end instead of the F...I die.

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#40

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 11:37am

Patti LuPone, of course. then Brian Stoke Mitchell, Victoria Clark,Jesse Martin,Laura Benanti, Michael Cerveris, Raul Esparza, Heather Laws, etc.

[tos] cast, anyone? Hiedi Blickenstaff? Hunter Bell?

#41

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 2:36pm

Judy Kuhn and Adam Pascal.

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#42

Broadway's best voices

Posted: 6/1/10 at 6:21pm

Lea Salonga, her Kim, Eponine, and Fantine are just haunting
Agree with Sutton, Idina, Bernadette, Audra, Mandy G and Ruthie,

Additionally also like Sierra, Ashley Brown, Rebecca Luker, Elaine Paige, and Kerry Ellis