How Would You Define a "Moist Voice"?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 8:56pm

Once you've defined it, please give an example of it.

Thank you very much.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:01pm

Dude, I've spawned a thread! I feel honoured and threatened.

A voice that seems like the singer's mouth is overflowing with saliva or cottage cheese and trying desperately not to burst into tears at the same time. Examples: Colm Wilkinson, Gary Morris, Sean Palmer, and of course Michael Cerveris! And I actually like all of these performers...

Or the lead actor in a musical of Terry Pratchett's "Going Postal." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Postal The main character's name is Moist Von Lipwig.

Updated On: 1/25/09 at 09:01 PM

[PRFRMR20]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:01pm

Do you swallow, if yes you have a "moist voice" :P

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:03pm

That might explain the gagging noise Michael Cerveris kept making in "My Friends."

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:03pm

Okay, so you're not implying that Michael Cerveris has a moist voice because of his performance in TITANIC. Right?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:04pm

Ha, didn't even think of that! (I'm... actually not at all familiar with Titanic the Musical. I heard it was about as successful as the Titanic's maiden voyage. Is it any good?)

[frogs_fan85]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:09pm

When I read that part of the review my mind immediately went to Cerveris' propensity for spitting during a performing.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:09pm

I saw its first preview of TITANIC and it was vile. I understand lots of work was done on it and the show that opened was substantially different. The music is quite good.

Now, does mandy Patinkin have a "moist voice"?

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[SweeneyPhanatic]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:11pm

5 Tony Awards (including Best Musical) and roughly 2 years on Broadway. Yeah, I'd say Titanic is good. I only know it from the OBC and touring production, but both of those are good enough for me!

*edited because I can't count

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[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:14pm

Can one get a moist voice by applying too much moisturizer?

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:17pm

Mandy Patinkin's voice sounds slightly damp and lightly blow-dried. (I have no idea what I just said...)

Also (this took me all of fifteen seconds hard work...):

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[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:21pm

Schmerg, what's your new avatar from? It's weird not to see you as Terrence Mann!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:23pm

Hahaha, that's the point! Maisie challenged me to post a *feminine* avatar for once so that she'd stop picturing me as Terry Mann! So I got a picture that looked like me (it's by Emmy Cicierega) and uploaded it. It's only temporary, though... Javerrence will be back soon!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:33pm

...hopefully with a moist voice.

The Betty Crocker ad impaled me!

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 10:02pm

I think 'Dollypop' should be a verb, but I don't really want to think about what it would mean.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/25/09 at 10:36pm

In some crass circles, "dollypop" does have another maning. Suffice to say that the name was coined by the late columnist Dorothy Killgallan as a means of identifying those of us who kept returning to the original production of HELLO,DOLLY! In my case it was a matter of 74 times.

BTW: Carol Channing definitely doesn't have a "moist voice".

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:18am

I would add Jon Groff to the list of Moist Voices. Only has Cerveris had more spit coming out of his mouth in a show than Groff has from the shows I have seen. I always wondered how Lea felt during the final scene of act 1 when you could see the spit flying out of his mouth. Love him as a performer but I was happy to not be close enough to be drenched.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:40am

I hate the word moist.

[RomanBartelli]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:42am

I mean, if it's too moist, it might get yeasty. Yeasty voice = Elaine Stritch.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 8:29am

Well Groff makes me moist. Does that count?

[Dollypop]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:10am

Can a woman have a moist voice?

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:25am

Sure women can have a "moist voice." When I heard the term moist voice, I immediately thought of Barbra Streisand and her well lubricated throat. Between her hot water and her tea with honey, one can always hope to hear some moist sounds. Both live and on some recordings you can hear her well moisturized lips smacking together. She is definitely moist.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:40am

Drew Sarich is like the spittiest performer out there ( Alexander Gemignani's up there, too-- it was hilarious to watch the two of them doing "Confrontation" in Les Miserables and spitting in each other's faces), but Drew's voice always sounds really dry to me.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:55am

Tea actually dries the throat vs. moistening it.

And, haha, a lot of people hate that word.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/26/09 at 12:31pm

Perhaps only pregnant or menopausal women can obtain moistness in their voice. In this case shouldn't Grey Gardens audiences have been given towels like the 110 in the Shade folks?