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Highest and Best Broadway Belters
#100re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 2:55pm
Sherie and Kerry (they rhyme!
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kas
Broadway Star Joined: 1/8/05
#101re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 3:08pmheather headley is my favorite. for dudes: darius de haas in lost in the wilderness.
#102re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 3:14pmRachel York, Rachel York, and RACHEL YORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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#103re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 3:14pmI forgot RACHEL YORK!!!
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broadwayman
Stand-by Joined: 1/10/04
#105re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 4:01pm
Def Heather Headly and Sutton Foster! 
And also Tari Kelly did some good belting in LSoH.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
#106re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 4:05pm
Heather's belt is not that high...listen to the Dreamgirls Concert...I know that it was just after 9/11 and everyone was having vocal problems, but she really couldnt reach the notes.
What about Loretta Divine! She hit the notes just fine in "It's My Party"
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#107re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 4:17pm
I just wanted to go back to a question that was asked earlier, about the highest note ever hit on Broadway...
To the best of my knowledge, the highest note ever scored in a Broadway show is the E7 that ends the titular song from "The Phantom Of The Opera", but it's quite possible that there may have been improvised interpolations of higher notes in other shows through the years...
How about Linda Eder? *ducks to avoid flying flames* I know she's not a Serious Broadway Actress, but, love her or hate her, the chick can blow.
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#108re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 4:21pm
Ohhh, I love that note. Even when Sandra Joseph (just barely) hits it.
*shudders*
sassypanz
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/05
#109re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 4:23pmIdina doesnt belt anymore. She started to shout more in wicked. Eden Sho and Kristy!!!
#110re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 4/29/05 at 5:13pmDef Eden. not the highest belter but defenitly an extremely strong one.
I wanted to get something that an "ex"-junkie like him would really appreciate and cherish....it's a brick of heroin shaped like a heart.
-Scrubs
bardolator
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
#111re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/9/06 at 8:03pm
divanut, I know the original post is from a long time ago, but...did you ever get to hear Stephanie J.? I'd put her on this list...she has a powerful, genuine belt over which she also has amazing control--an incredible combination!
I'd love to know her top note/range. IMO, a lot of people who don't like her prefer the head voice of Menzel...but it's too "pop" for me. Give me the sheer power anyday!
Updated On: 3/18/06 at 08:03 PM
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Broadway Star Joined: 8/4/03
#112re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/9/06 at 11:13pmDEBBIE GRAVITTE...we have short memories here!
sassypanz
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/05
bardolator
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
#114re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/18/06 at 3:26pm
Apparently, her top note is a high E. She estimates her belt at 2 and a half octaves. :)
Soooo looking forward to PIRATE QUEEN!
Edited to add: 3 octaves including head voice; her low note is E below middle C, and as it's difficult to belt low, her high belt is something like a B just below high C. Pretty high for a mezzo.
Updated On: 3/18/06 at 03:26 PM
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#115re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/18/06 at 4:45pm
Some have mentioned Heather Headley... how high can she belt? I agree that she's an amazing belter, but I wasn't aware that she could belt extremely high, much less that she was one of the "higest Broadway belters."
To answer the question... Sherie Rene Scott. Shoshana Bean (from the little I've heard).
mrkringas
Broadway Star Joined: 9/28/05
#116re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/19/06 at 6:10am
Okay having read the post earlier about what belt was with reference to "head" and "chest" voice I would suggest anyone with an interest click on this link and has a read. Its short and simple and explains what "belt" is without use of out-dated concepts.
http://www.vocalprocess.net/resources/belting-range-and-register.pdf
Oh and Heather Headley belts an F in AIDA..amazing. "Its EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNOOOOOOUGH" at the end of Dance of the Robe.
My personal favourites for Broadway belters are Julia Murney, Carolee Carmello and Betty Buckley. But there are too many to really mention. Oh and we have some kick ass belters over here in London but they dont get quite so much exposure. People like Kerry Ellis, Jenna Lee James and Sophia Ravagelas.
bardolator
Featured Actor Joined: 3/8/06
#117re: Highest and Best Broadway Belters
Posted: 3/19/06 at 8:36amWow, mrkringas--lots of great info.! Thanks! :)
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