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Highest and Best Broadway Belters
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#50
Posted: 6/25/04 at 2:26pm
I've got to say the following girls belt not only high, but healthy:
Heather Headley
Jennifer HOlliday
Nancy Opel
Stephanie J Block
Liz Callaway
One no one has mentioned: Linda Eder
The best of all the belters, IMHO: Sutton Foster. Her voice is ah-ma-zing!
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#51
Posted: 6/25/04 at 2:55pm
I have worked with Alix Korey and Flo Lacey and both have AMAZING belts! Alix can peel the paint off the walls!
You have also left out Deborah Gibson. girl can belt!!!
Understudy Joined: 8/15/03
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#52
Posted: 6/25/04 at 3:27pmI'm so happy people are mentioning Stephanie J Block....I can't wait until more people know who she is and what she is capable of. Brilliant!!!!!
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#53
Posted: 6/25/04 at 3:31pmComing in a bit late on this, but with regards to Betty Buckley - to some people's ears she can be quite shrill. She has great technique and passion, but her placement is a bit odd. Which is why, to answer your question, she's not on everyone's list.
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#54
Posted: 6/25/04 at 3:35pmAlso, Andrea McArdle and Karen Ziemba are great belters - although not with the high soprano range of some of the others.
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#55
Posted: 6/26/04 at 9:19amAdd Julia Murney and Sara Gettelfinger to that list too...
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#57
Posted: 6/26/04 at 11:58amStephanie J. Block - of the upcoming ones.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#58
Posted: 6/26/04 at 12:02pm
I'm not getiing why Sutton Foster isn't on that list. She can sustain a high F with vibrato
Julia Murney's another great one.
And Idina most certainly has a vibrato...more often than not...
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#59
Posted: 6/26/04 at 9:10pm
NANCY!!!
Nancy is not only an amazing singer and an amazing actress, she is also one of the nicest people you will ever meet.
I think we're leaving the guys out. I nominate Hunter Foster...
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#60
Posted: 6/26/04 at 10:07pmI think lea salonga can hit some pretty high chest notes.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#61
Posted: 6/27/04 at 11:26am
Old school ~
Melba Moore - Purlie
Leslie Uggams - Hallelujah, Baby
Nell Carter - Ain't Misbehavin'
New ~
Idina the Great
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#63
Posted: 6/27/04 at 4:34pmis there a cast recording of the musical purlie??? i would love to here melba moore belt, what other recording can she be heard on?? thanks :)h
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#64
Posted: 6/27/04 at 11:36pm
My favorite "balls to the wall" belters:
Merman
LuPone
Holliday
Peters
Ripley
Eder
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#65
Posted: 6/28/04 at 9:12amMelba Moore sings I Got Love on the Purlie Cast Album. This song actually was on the charts briefly at the time of the show. Those were the days! Whatever happened to Melba Moore?
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#66
Posted: 6/28/04 at 11:35amKerry butler
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#67
Posted: 6/28/04 at 11:38amOh yeah and Kristen chenoweth
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#68
Posted: 6/29/04 at 7:24pm
There are quite a few, but I'll only mention some that stick out in my mind...
Idina Menzel
Sutton Foster
Nancy Opel
Cady Huffman (sp?)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Sherie Rene Scott
Bernadette Peters
I was also a bit disappointed, although not completely, with Beth McVey's singing portion of Urinetown on its tour. Nancy Opel really belted them out high...Beth kind of sounded low...if you heard both Nancy and Beth you would know the difference. Now, I am no voice expert, but what is head voice and chest voice?
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#69
Posted: 6/29/04 at 8:49pmIf you sing out loud to soundtracks or the radio you're most likely using your chest voice and head voice is when you go into a higher register. Head voice is more like opera.
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#70
Posted: 6/29/04 at 8:49pmIf you sing out loud to soundtracks or the radio you're most likely using your chest voice and head voice is when you go into a higher register. Head voice is more like opera.
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#71
Posted: 6/29/04 at 9:14pmi have also seen the touring prodiction of urintown and was dissapointed by beth mcvey's rendition of its a privagel to pee. i was looking forward to hearing this song belted live but was dissapointed. but over all she gave a wonderful performence
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#72
Posted: 6/30/04 at 11:52amJon - I agree...........KAREN MORROW is the best Broadway Belter ever.
Stand-by Joined: 6/9/04
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#73
Posted: 6/30/04 at 3:58pmThere's not a whole lot of mention for the guys....one of my all time favorite belters is Bryan D'Arcy James. He nearly blew me out of my seat in Titanic - lungs of steal on that one! :)
re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters#74
Posted: 6/30/04 at 6:52pmsorry, but this is off topic. i am haveing troubel logging into the message board. everytime i try to go in the main room it does not open up. that's why i am posting here because i am not able to start a new topic. is anyone else haveing this problam?? thanks :)
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