Got a good one...
Got a good one...
#0Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 3:57pm
What's the longest run you've heard in a song by a single performer without taking a breath?
The first one that comes to mind is Bernadette Peters in "Sunday in the Park with George"
Another one is Nathan Lane in The Producers with "The King of Broadway"
Any others that anyone can think of?
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#2re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:49pmAww. It's okay. I think people just can't think of anything off the top of their heads.
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#3re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:49pmDepending on his mood, Glenn Carter in the JCS revival during Gethsemane.
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Fair 2 Middlin
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#5re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:03pmLinda Eder, "On The Street Where You Live." Broadway My Way
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#6re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:04pmRusty in "let's Hear it for the Boy" from Fooloose. (The original Broadway version.)
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WiCkEd4LyFfE
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#7re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:12pmDouglas Sills in "Dentist" & the last note in "the Wizard and I" by Idina Menzel. When i saw Eden she held that note longer though.
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ProducersFan
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#8re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:20pm
How about Bernadette in Annie Get Your Gun - "Anything You Can Do"
The song came on the Showtunes channel and all of a sudden I just hear her sustaining this note - and she kept going... and going... She's amazing!
And I agree about Nathan in "King of Broadway" - when I saw that live I seriously thought he would just collapse from lack of oxygen. My gosh can he sing! 
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#9re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:22pm
doug sills-'dentist'
idina and eden-'The Wizard and I' and 'No Good Deed'
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#10re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:25pm
Completely opposite but this topic makes me think of Bat Boy.
Got another dead co -
Got another d -
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#11re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:26pmOn the Chicago Revival cd..in "We Both Reached for the Gun," Billy Flynn (sorry forgot who it is) holds that last note really long.
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#12re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:28pmoh i was watching last year's broadway on broadway and the guy who played billy flynn held that note forever! i swear i was sitting there like 'you can stop now.'
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#15re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:48pm
There's a clip of James Barbour singing If I Can't Love Her from Beauty and the Beast on his website, and he holds the last note for a length of time that does not seem possible for human lungs. Ah, love!
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#16re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:58pmI say Steve Balsamo in GETHSEMANE. That man held that note for over a minute without a breath, in strong falsetto. GO BOY!!!!!
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#17re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:17pmJim Dale singing in Barnum singing The Museum Song....it gets faster and faster and faster and faster...
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#18re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:29pm
That's James Naughton on the Chicago Revival CD....
Mmmmmm... Definitely Brent Barrett, J-Ho, Roz Ryan, Marti Pellow -- cmon 27 seconds on the Gun note... I've GOT to give him that one!
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#19re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:32pm
>>Completely opposite but this topic makes me think of Bat Boy.
Got another dead co -
Got another d -
Got ano -
G -
yay for Bat Boy!
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#20re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:40pmHeather Headley in Easy as Life
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#21re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:56pmhow about Coleen Sexton in Jekyll and Hyde during "A New Life"? There's a part where phrasing just went on and on...
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#22re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:39pmhow about all the phantoms at the end of music of the night?
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Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#23re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:40pmWhen I saw the Urinetown tour, Ron Holgate (Cladwell) held this note for a reallyyyy long time...of course I forget which song it was...it might have been "What is Urinetown" but he held it for quite awhile; I know John Cullum doesn't do it on the recording.
#24re: Got a good one...
Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:11pmMy pick was already mentioned...Bernadette's note in "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get your Gun!
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