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#54

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

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.
#57

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

"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).
"Nice is different than good."
#58

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

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.
#60

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

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.
#61

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

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.
#63

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

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.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#65

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

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

#70

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

"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).
#73

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

"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 ?
#75

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

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.

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