If you LOVE showtunes, then I'd LOVE your help!

Hello lovely fellow fans! I'm the host of a weekly one-hour radio show which features the fabulous glorious music of the American stage and screen musical. I'll play almost anything including traditional showtunes, vaudeville hits, operettas, Disney--even Labyrinth, BUT only if it fits my weekly theme.

After 6.5 years, I need YOUR help coming up with new themes and playlists!

THIS WEEK'S THEME: Send Me A Soprano. Tell me who your favorite Broadway sopranos are and what song I should play by them!

Thanks bunches and have fun! :)

Does it have to exclusively be American?

Julie Andrews- I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady), The Simple Joys of Maidenhood (Camelot)
Sally Ann Howes- What Happened to Me Tonight? (KwamIna)
Edie Adams- A Little Bit in Love (Wonderful Town)
Wynne Miller- Tommy, Tommy (Tenderloin)
Jacqueline Mayro- Surprise (Oh, Captain!)
Mimi Benzell- That Was Yesterday (Milk and Honey)
Anna Maria Alberghetti- Mira (Carnival)

Phantom of the Opera, if you don't mind some baritone too.

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Uh, do you mean 'legit' sopranos or mezzos? (There are two types)

That said:

Kristin Chenoweth: "I Couldn't Be Happier" from "Wicked" (I am not her biggest fan but that last note convinced me she was terrific)
Ashley Brown-anything she has out there-a gorgeous clarion of a voice
Christiane Noll-Her numbers from 'Jekyll and Hyde' and if you can get a copy of "Back to Before" from the Ragtime revival are stunning
Christine Andreas-Her songs from Oklahoma are fabulous (Christine Ebersole, another soprano, is very good as Ado Annie)
Barbara Cook-The Music Man-it was incredible to listen to (still is!)
Rosalind Elias and Leah Horowitz-One More Kiss from the revival of Follies-absolutely sublime (this might be one time I prefer the revival rendition)
Melissa Errico-I love her voice-she has an album out there called Le Grand Affair. Listen to it!
Renee Fleming-has an album of Broadway music, including a lovely rendition of "Moonfall" from "Drood" and "All the Wasted Time" from "Parade" (She has another album with Domingo where she gives a lovely rendition of "Somewhere".)

Updated On: 10/17/12 at 08:55 AM

Barbara Cook "Chain of Love" from THE GRASS HARP

You could fufill this list just with sopranos from the 50s, but I will put a word in for the lovely Patti Cohenour and her killer work as Rosa Budd in drood.

Wow, Wilmington! Yes! Cook's Chain of Love.







IT JUST DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS!

Updated On: 10/18/12 at 12:10 AM

Rebecca Luker - "How Could I Ever Know" from THE SECRET GARDEN

Kelly O'Hara - the title song from LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Not from the stage version - but I love Shirley Jones in CAROUSEL ("If I Loved You" or "What's the Use of Wond'rin'")

Audra McDonald - "Your Daddy's Son" from RAGTIME

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Updated On: 10/19/12 at 01:15 PM

OK...that makes no sense. You use your name on a public radio show that I hope has more listeners than the people that read this thread, but you won't reveal your name/radio show here for SECURITY reasons? The only "security" you are worried about is that it become known that you solicit outside help. (Which is nothing to be concerned with: who doesn't research and ask for help? )

I'd think that the more listeners you had the happier you'd be.

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The best three American rock musicals: NEXT TO NORMAL, HAIR, HEDWIG.

If you don't want to help, then don't. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing in this query that requires ugliness. You may run your radio show as you see fit.

"Seize the Day" [Newsies] is a good one.
I also like "Here I Come" [13], "This is the Moment" [Jekyll & Hyde], "Before The Parade Passes By" [Hello Dolly!], and "Finale B" (No Day But Today) [RENT].

I just want to say I love the fact that you have a Broadway station and the fact that you are (to some extent) letting us "common folk" give songs suggestions.