I think the cast recording will prove that, except for the odd moment, Audra is giving the single best vocal performance we’ve ever heard of a Rose. I’ve been studying her performance for months and months and it’s amazing how ferocious and thick her vocals are when needed (thicker than Patti’s voice) while also having the vulnerability you would get from Bernadette in the quieter songs. It is like an encyclopaedia of complexity and I always wonder who people are thinking of vocally if they don’t like Audra because her voice is stronger and thicker than Patti’s, Bernadette’s, Satunton’, Tyne’s, Angela’s and well if we’re now back to 1959 we don’t have a Time Machine.
What’s also crazy is that she is doing this live every night of the week. I acknowledge that she still has a while to go but Patti and Bernadette both did not sound this good live every night.
Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.