Highest Note Hit by a Male Actor on Broadway Album- Page 2

[Janki]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 3:04am

See, the dumbest thing about high notes is that if you have got a fantastic belt you always use it. A friend of mine ended every f***ing song the same way....BOOORING! As a high Tenor I can belt a Bb, but I can also sing Christine in Phantom in my head"Opera Diva" voice (well everything appart from the last bit of the title song)...

[Broadway Bob*]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 3:49am

Technically M. O'Haughey recorded "A Little Bit of Good" in a higher key than D. Sabella, so I think he would win. He hit some serious uber-high B flats (I think). Having played Mary Sunshine, let me just say that is one bear of a song to sing (especially in heels!)

[actorgaedu]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 9:42am

Michael Ball hits a B flat at the end of "Love Changes Everything." I don't know how he sustained that every night on stage!

[Jazzysuite82]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 2:04pm

Well Titus is singing High G's...above high B Flat. But y'all should know it's not chest. It's what we call a chest/head mix. Much like how many women can make their mixes sound like a belt (sort of). If he sang all of that in his chest, it'd explode...or his voice would blow out.

[old white radio]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 5:50pm

If we are limited to just a soundtrack, I would have to go with either Titus or Neeley from JCSS. Both I believe are going up to High G. But for theater song recordings in general or live, I would have to go with Danny Zolli doing Gethsemene from JCSS. Zolli easily nails that High G and then goes above it ( a High B, I think during a riff note) during his version of "Gethsemene". I've seen him do this a couple of times live, and frankly it's just sick. It has a piercing real blood and guts tone to it, and it's just sick.

[COOOOLkid]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 5:55pm

^ cast recording

[Rosalind]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 5:56pm

That DING DONG note in Sweeney Todd by Beadle is RIDICULOUS.

Songs For a New World, that note in Flying Home.

[BlueWindSadness]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 5:57pm

I mean- whoever it was that said about Jonothon Groff on the SA soundtrack- I do agree, it is quite high, but it's just there, he doesnt so the note any justice- dont get me wrong I LOVE the show, but sometimes live- that note is just way too pitchy...

I will have to agree about JCSS though- that's pretty sick.

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 10:43pm

Steve Balsamo takes the crown in terms of "Gethsemane".
And also, Ty Taylor's high F on "LOOOOOOOOOOORD" on "On the Deck" from SFANW is absolutely amazing.

But I'd say the winner is Tituss Burgess, not just on "Under the Sea," but on "Oh What a Night" as well. He hits that same note.

[Boq101]

Posted: 1/31/08 at 10:52pm

I'll take TwoPiece's word for it, since he sort of has had to sing that 8 shows a week.