Flat Note in Avenue Q?

It may be me, but if you listen closely it sounds like at the end of the song, "There Is Life Outside Your Apartment," one of the females is flat during the last note of the song, when they go "And now it's time to go home." Am I just hearing things?

Updated On: 11/16/05 at 10:09 PM

Nah just a close listener--you can hear it if you aren't do anything else and I was waiting for someone, is it just me?

I think the poster was merely asking a question. No harm in that.

I was a bit confused at the beginning of this post with the Subject being: flat note, seeing as there are a plethera of sharp and flat notes in this musical as are in all musicals.

However, now that I see what you mean, I will say its very possible. I havent listened to the cast album in a while and I don't own it, but its very probable. It happens in lots of cast recordings. Nothing can be worse than during the title song for Company. NOTHING could be. Well I'm sure something could be, I just have not heard it (not bashing company just that one impeccably off key voice "Just be the three of us,
Only the three of us--We looooooooooooooooove you!" during looooove-- eesh).

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Updated On: 11/17/05 at 04:04 PM

I would describe it more like someone slid up to their note so it took a split second for them to get to the right pitch and for the chord to land.

But yeah, I don't particularly think it's a big deal.

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The one at the end of Wicked's "Finale" on the cast album drives me off the wall. I always cringe BEFORE it comes. LOL

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Whateverman:
1) I am male. Well done.
2) Stop trying to start controversey. You will not get it here.
3) It isn't that big of a deal, I was bringing up a topic of conversation, my throat has been bothering me lately, can we stop jumping down it?

Gavin Creel in "What Do I Need With Love?"

GAH.

Love him. Abhor the song in the first place. Add the fact that he goes flat on about three different notes (that I can hear)... suicide.

it's probably Natalie Belcon, she is flat a LOT of the time.

No, no one is flat on the very last note, but someone is flat a few lines before the last note.

Whateverman- Check the attitude before you login.

Sometimes, and this is true on MANY occasions, a recording does not do justice to some songs. Some can be recorded perfectly without a glitch. Some songs, especially in difficult keys like D major, are just difficult to stay in tune with. A perfect example is "The Wizard and I". On the CD Idina performs it very well,if a little pushy, but when singing it live, this small issues melt away and the song soars. These actors and actresses are trained not to be flat or sharp, and if they are, they are trained to make vocal adjustments. I am sure that, if pitch was an issue, these proffesionals are aware of it right away.

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