Emmy Rossum: dubbed? — Page 2

Emmy Rossum's voice was dubbed by the same person who did Richard Gere's tapdancing in CHICAGO, and who rigged the Oscars so Marisa Tomei would "win" for MY COUSIN VINNIE. The same person who performed the surgery that made little Jamie Lee Curtis into a girl. The same person who pulled the gerbil out of Gere's ass.

Updated On: 12/24/04 at 11:39 PM

I'm almost 100% positive it's Emmy. She sings in the movie "Songcatcher" and on the soundtrack for the movie "Nola" and they're both lower-range songs, and the lower singing in the title song sounds like her.. just in the POTO 'style'.. :)

I just listened and I do think it sounds like her, but her voice just sounds stronger than it does in the other songs.

Back a little: I read an article with Joel Schumacher and he said it was essential for the actors to be great singers as well. How does he explain Minnie being dubbed? Intresting to me! I still haven't seen the movie though! Im such a bad theatre fag!

Emmy was not dubbed at all..it so sounds like the same voice in the tittle song and in every song.

Seriously, I've been playing the cd non stop for about a week and half, and there's a slight difference but not enough that I'd say it sounds like a different person. My guess would be that it was the last song recorded since it's the most demanding.

And quite frankly, if they're open enough about Minnie being dubbed, why not admit it if Emmy was too. There wouldn't be any shame in having someone else sing PTO because of the demands. I believe (and perhaps I'm being naive) that if it were someone else, it would've leaked or been shared by now. Someone would be suing for not getting credit or some such nonsense.

Jon...kudos...I snarfed my diet coke...thanks a heap

I highly doubt that Emmy's singing was dubbed. She's a legit young soprano whose voice is still developing. Performing ALL I ASK OF YOU live on Good Morning America w/ Patrick Wilson, Emmy had no problems singing from A flat below middle C to the A flat two octaves above. So, in terms of her lower register, it's not that much of a stretch for her to sing the lowest note in the title song, which is a G below middle C. And because the opening of the song sits low in Emmy's voice (and indeed all Christines' voices), the timbre will obviously be different from when she is singing in her head tones.

Also, Emmy did have to sing up to a high D sharp/E flat (which is now the highest note in the film version of the title track because of the film's elimination of the third verse and the accompanying modulation that ultimately requires stage Christines to hit a high E natural at the climax of the song). The reverb in the recording (which may have been increased to simulate the echoes that would likely result from singing in the Phantom's underground lair OR if Emmy needed some recording engineering magic to amplify her vocalise) is what probably accounts for the perceived difference in Emmy's vocals in the title track. As for her vibrato, it's consistent with the other tracks in the film. I would even say that Emmy actually loses her vibrato at certain points of the vocalise, but it's still her singing. Just my 2 cents.

THank you, RosaBud. I keep hearing all this stuff tossed about with the song crediting in the album and whatnot. POint is this: when a singer is dubbed for one song, they're not going to mention it. In fact, it's very likely they'll do their best to hide it because they don't want that kind of information out about their star.
I again point you to the Marni Nixon years. She was never credited for all of that singing in My Fair Lady and even West Side Story. IT got out, of course, as these things do, but even so, the knowledge that she dubbed a lot of Anita's singing didn't come out until not long ago.
So these things are easily buried. When the only people who know are studio people in the recording room and Dale Kristien herself, plus it's Phantom, which, I must frankly say, isn't the most anticipated movie of the season, so it's not like people are scrounging around for scoop.
I still maintain she was dubbed.

The "Phantom" cast was on the View this morning, and the ladies of 'The View' continually applauded the four cast members (Minnie Driver, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Gerard Butler) for singing their own vocals throughout the entire movie. All of them took credit for singing their own vocals... so were they lying on air? they showed a clip of 'Music of the Night', which I found passable. Patrick Wilson was focused on briefly about his Tony-nominated turns in OKLAHOMA! and THE FULL MONTY.

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umm, that's my point. Marni stepped in and dubbed the Anita track when they felt they needed to. And they kept it strongly under wraps. Rita Moreno maintained for years she did all her own singing. Maybe they didn't even bother telling her Marni had done it.
Again, do you REALLY think the star of a film's going to say, on the View, "I have a confession. They decided my takes on 'Phantom of the Opera' weren't satisfactory so they called in an old, trusted veteran of the stage version to dub my vocals on that track."?
Really?
And Marquise, I don't need any facts beyond the very strong belief that it doesn't sound like her on the title song. What's truly amazing me is how offended everyone seems to be by this assumption.
You'd almost think I suggested that Eden Espinosa dubbed all of Idina's songs on the Wicked album.

I don't think people are offended by your assertion, just annoyed that you keep insisting on your theory despite knowing full well you have no grounds or way to prove it beyond your constant insistence that it's what you think.

very true some singers do have a wide singing range.... i didn't mean to sound like i was arguing with you bwaysinger :)

Updated On: 12/24/04 at 03:35 PM

I'm pretty sure that Betty Wand did Rita Moreno's singing in West Side Story, not Marni Nixon, who dubbed Anita.