Lowest note ever sung by a female on Broadway?

[morosco]

Posted: 9/26/23 at 12:51pm

I would guess the honor would go to Chita when she sang the lyric "scratch my back" from THE RINK'S The Apple Doesn't Fall Very Far.

Scratch My Back

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 9/26/23 at 1:22pm

On an old poll, Chita was picked for THE RINK with an A sounding a tenth BELOW middle C.

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 10/1/23 at 12:46pm

Christine Ebersole also hits the same note when she first sings the word "man" in If I'd Been a Man from War Paint

Close to them would be Betty Buckley in Carrie "When there's no one" though she sings one and half notes higher. 

 

However, Mary Martin sings even lower in Do Re MI, when she descends to do, at the end do ti la sol fa mi re...do, around a third lower than Chita and Christine Eversole 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 10/1/23 at 12:52pm

Isn't Bacall's "there's no life at all" in HURRY BACK lower than Mary Martin's DO?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66Xh2C578v8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENOqIAWcjJg


The distinction should be lowest note sung by a cis woman, as there may be some trans women who have sung lower (solo or in ensembles).

[Mskuphantm]

Posted: 10/1/23 at 1:00pm

How could I forget that song!  

Yes you are right Lauren Bacall does sing it lower