Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
#2re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:08pmHahahahahahahahahahaha!
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Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
#3re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:08pm
BobbyBuddy & Wonderboy - that didn't really answer my question. Thanks though for your much appreciated input, rude!
Updated On: 6/24/05 at 03:08 PM
#4re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:11pm
Perfect response, Bobby.
Phantom, Glinda is an extremely challenging role. I'm sure Reese could attempt to do it, but she may crash and fail in doing so. She certainly looks the part, what with blonde stereotype and all, however, Kristin and Jennifer were singing up in the stratosphere, and I imagine that Reese cannot accomplish that with vocal training this late in her life. And it would be a poor decision business-wise since she's currently being payed multiple million dollars for a movie. I, myself, would not give that up if I were going to switch to a new lifestyle making a mere $1500 a week.
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Updated On: 6/24/05 at 03:11 PM
#5re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:13pm
I'm really not trying to be rude but it seems like every other post is about WICKED. I like WICKED but I mean, let's get real here. Reese Witherspoon as Galinda?
To answer your question, no, she doesn't sing. Her singing voice in VANITY FAIR was dubbed.
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Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
#6re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:13pmThank you, Aigoo... thats all I was looking for. Wish we had less posters like Bobby & Wonderboy who tend to trash posts they think are dumb.
#7re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:17pm
Sorry just preparing myself for the 1.000's of threads like this based on seeing celebs at the Wicked premiere.
#8re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:18pm
Wonderboy, if you think the Wicked post are bad now-a-days - you have no idea!
For a while it was Wicked every other post, it was non stop. It's not nearly as bad as it was.
#9re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:19pmIt just frightens me how some people cross that obsession border, ya know?
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#10re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:20pmI do believe whoever is playing Glinda is making more than $1500 a week. Not movie star money, but definitely quite a bit more than union minimum.
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#11re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:21pmI miss the Idina Menzel hair care threads!
#12re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:22pmOMG! Please tell me that there really weren't any of those were there?
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#14re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:29pm
Wow! That makes me sad...
and frightened!
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#15re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:32pmI searched for the thread but couldn't find it. BUt it did exist!
JHartnow
Featured Actor Joined: 11/24/04
#16re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:33pm
Aside from all of the bashing that might happen on this thread and despite whether or not Reese Witherspoon can sing or not, I have in the past, thought that she favored Chenoweth a bit. Little, blonde, bubbly with a wicked jawline. No pun intended...
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Updated On: 6/24/05 at 03:33 PM
Ebonic_Singer
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/18/04
#17re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:36pmI agree with Rat--it is definately more than $1500.
#18re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:38pmI'm not very savvy on how much Broadway performers make. So I just went with union min. Granted, Reese makes much more now than she would ever make even if somehow, through the gods of stunt-casting, she DID get the part.
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jim coleman
Stand-by Joined: 1/10/05
#19re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:42pmI think that Kristen Chenowith made in the neighborhood of $10,000 a week in WICKED.
BatonMan
#20re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:50pm
Correction regarding Reese Witherspoon. She can sing. She is doing her own singing in WALK THE LINE the upcoming film about country singer June Cash.
That said, her singing was dubbed for Vanity Fair (a lyric soprano) and though Reese Witherspoon is doing the speaking voice for the upcoming Disney RAPUNZEL, her singing voice is being provided by....Kristen Chenoweth.
So I think its fair to say that Glinda isn't where her singing voice sits...
#21re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 3:53pmI didn't know that she was doing her own singing in that picture. Thanks for the info MichaelBennett! You can tell by her speaking voice that she is by no means a soprano.
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#22re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:00pmI wouldn't quite rely on speaking voice for assumptions on "range", WonderBoy. I, myself, have a very low speaking voice, but a quite expansive range up to thoses High notes.
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#23re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:03pm
Interesting. My voice teacher swears that he can tell what part someone sings by hearing them speak. I don't get it because I know people like you and vice versa as far as speaking/singing range is concerned.
So let me rephrase what I said.
I would be surprised if she were a soprano considering the general pitch in which she speaks.
God knows I don't want what I said to be taken the wrong way and drug through the mud like in a previous thread! LOL
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~ an anonymous traveler with Robert Burns
Updated On: 6/24/05 at 04:03 PM
#24re: Can Reese Witherspoon sing???
Posted: 6/24/05 at 4:05pmIt's quite common for sopranists at my school, actually. Our top soprano in the state (she graduated this year) that I talked to quite often commented on this situation. She's often perceived as a mezzo-soprano, but her lowest note is right around the pitch that her speaking voice lingers on. I found it sort of ironic.
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