How did Lupone get so good at Singing? She went to Juilliard....- Page 3

[all that jazz]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 3:48pm

Your profile pic.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 3:53pm

Oh Thank! I love cats.It's one of my guilty Pleasure Shows.I think it's very underrated.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 3:55pm

It's one of my favorites too!! It is relatively underrated...

[broadway guy]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 3:59pm

It really is! It doesn't get the respect it deserves but the fact is the score is beautiful and the dancing is to die for.Plus the orginal broadway production had one of the coolest set designs ever.They didn't just dress up the stage,they dressed up the whole theatre.Amazing show that deserves to be revived soemday.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 4:03pm

^ AMEN!!

[BroadwayFan12]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 5:53pm

She didn't. Updated On: 3/30/13 at 05:53 PM

[Emma White]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 7:01pm

"Idina went to Tisch, and she still suffered in Wicked, not to mention Dame Julie in MFL."
Dame Julie is a High School dropout.
I'm sure there are more Broadway Stars who didn't study MT than those who did (or studied opera, a la Kristin Chenoweth).

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 7:05pm

I don't know that this has anything to do with Juilliard, but the first two times I saw Miss Lupone (ROBBER BRIDEGROOM and WORKING), I thought, "Damn! What a fine actress!" Her monologue as the "working girl" in the latter still gives me chills to recall.

I barely even noticed her singing.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 7:05pm

Most MT-majors will end up in the chorus, it seems.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 8:07pm

Well put, Kad. When I was teaching at UCLA and they were creating their (now very successful) musical theater program, the head of the acting division kept saying, "We need triple threats! Only applicants who can sing and act and dance equally well."

And every time I thought, "Oh, you mean future members of the chorus." Not that there's anything wrong with training chorines, but that isn't what the acting chair thought he was saying.

[BeadleDeedle]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 8:12pm

To sing, act, and dance equally well always seems to translate to being just slightly above average at all three. If only those programs would focus on storytelling, and then fine-tuning the techniques that especially suit the specific individual actor, both the schools and the actors would be more successful.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:05pm

What's wrong with being in the chorus in a broadway show?

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:11pm

I love cats.It's one of my guilty Pleasure Shows.I think it's very underrated.

Love, if there is one show in the history of musical theater that is NOT underrated, it's Cats.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:15pm

I mean yeah it's a really popular show and won alot of awards but i think many theatre fans don't appreciate the risk and creativity this show took.

[all that jazz]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:17pm

There's absolutely nothing wrong with being in the chorus. Many broadway stars were gypsies before landing roles. What's wrong, in my opinion, is training students solely to be on the chorus, but making them believe they're receiving an actor's training, and making them pay tuition for it.

Updated On: 3/31/13 at 10:17 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:17pm

It ran for almost 20 years and won 7 Tonys. I mean, I don't know who else you want to convince...

[broadway guy]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 10:24pm

Is that what AMDA does?Ive heard that school doesn't have a great reputation.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 11:22pm

Not tonight, Geraldine.

[ljay889]

Posted: 3/30/13 at 11:29pm

broadway guy is a troll right?

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 12:18am

"Her monologue as the "working girl" in the latter still gives me chills to recall.

I barely even noticed her singing."

Well, in Working you wouldn't have noticed her singing because she didn't (at least any solo stuff).

[Visceral_Fella]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 2:16am

"Idina went to Tisch, and she still suffered in Wicked"

She focused in Acting, not Musical Theatre.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 2:25am

Literally WTF is happening?

[Jsturt]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 2:46am

"Mandy P. and Kevin Kline were also theatre majors at Julliard. They both did OK in musical theatre.

Audra McDonald - a classical voice major, has five Tonys - three for musicals and two for straight plays."
Jon, Master Class yes is a straight play but she SUNG in the play she was a vocal student
did you read the play do you know the play ?

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 3:33am

What's wrong with being in the chorus in a broadway show?

Not one thing, broadway guy, unless you think you are making musical stars.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 3/31/13 at 3:38am

Well, in Working you wouldn't have noticed (Lupone) singing because she didn't (at least any solo stuff).

Perhaps, but how often do you come away from a musical remembering not the soloists but an actor who did a non-musical monologue? That was really my point.