How Would You Define a "Moist Voice"?
How Would You Define a "Moist Voice"?
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1How Would You Define a "Moist Voice"?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 8:56pm
Once you've defined it, please give an example of it.
Thank you very much.
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#2re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
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.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 1/25/09 at 09:01 PM
#2re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:01pmDo you swallow, if yes you have a "moist voice" :P
#3re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:03pmThat might explain the gagging noise Michael Cerveris kept making in "My Friends."
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#4re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:03pmOkay, so you're not implying that Michael Cerveris has a moist voice because of his performance in TITANIC. Right?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#5re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:04pmHa, 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?)
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#6re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:09pmWhen I read that part of the review my mind immediately went to Cerveris' propensity for spitting during a performing.
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#7re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
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"?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
Updated On: 1/25/09 at 09:09 PM
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#8re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
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
-- SDG
Updated On: 1/25/09 at 09:11 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#9re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:14pmCan one get a moist voice by applying too much moisturizer?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#10re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
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...): 
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 1/25/09 at 09:17 PM
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#11re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:21pmSchmerg, what's your new avatar from? It's weird not to see you as Terrence Mann!
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#12re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:23pmHahaha, 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!
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#13re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 9:33pm
...hopefully with a moist voice.
The Betty Crocker ad impaled me!
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#14re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/25/09 at 10:02pmI think 'Dollypop' should be a verb, but I don't really want to think about what it would mean.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#15re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
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".
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#16re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:18amI 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.
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RomanBartelli
Swing Joined: 1/26/09
#18re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 2:42amI mean, if it's too moist, it might get yeasty. Yeasty voice = Elaine Stritch.
#19re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 8:29amWell Groff makes me moist. Does that count?
....but the world goes 'round
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#20re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:10amCan a woman have a moist voice?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#21re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:25amSure 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.
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#22re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 10:40amDrew 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.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#23re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 11:55am
Tea actually dries the throat vs. moistening it.
And, haha, a lot of people hate that word.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!
#24re: How Would You Define a 'Moist Voice'?
Posted: 1/26/09 at 12:31pmPerhaps 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?
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