Got a good one...

#1

Got 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?

#2

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:44pm

It's so nice to see my topic crash and burn...lol

#3

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:49pm

Aww. It's okay. I think people just can't think of anything off the top of their heads.

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:49pm

Depending on his mood, Glenn Carter in the JCS revival during Gethsemane.

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 4:50pm

Jennifer Holliday in AIATYING comes to mind

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:03pm

Linda Eder, "On The Street Where You Live." Broadway My Way

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:04pm

Rusty in "let's Hear it for the Boy" from Fooloose. (The original Broadway version.)

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 5:12pm

Douglas 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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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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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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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 -
Got ano -
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Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:26pm

On 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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Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:28pm

oh 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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#14

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:29pm

That was the INCREDIBLE Brent Barrett as Billy

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:44pm

anybody who plays Mary Sunshine in CHICAGO

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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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Posted: 8/13/04 at 6:58pm

I 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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Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:17pm

Jim Dale singing in Barnum singing The Museum Song....it gets faster and faster and faster and faster...

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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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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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#21

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 7:40pm

Heather Headley in Easy as Life

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 8:56pm

how about Coleen Sexton in Jekyll and Hyde during "A New Life"? There's a part where phrasing just went on and on...

#23

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:39pm

how about all the phantoms at the end of music of the night?

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 9:40pm

When 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.

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Posted: 8/13/04 at 10:11pm

My pick was already mentioned...Bernadette's note in "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get your Gun!