Male power ballbads- Page 2

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:11pm

Hrmm... good question. What about.."Younger then Springtime" from South Pacific.. OMG love that song.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:29pm

This Is The Moment - J/H

[jwsel]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:28pm

I second Make Them Hear You from Ragtime. Wheel of a Dream is nice, but I think Make Them Hear You has a lot more emotion and just as powerful a message.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:36pm

Lost in the Wilderness from Children of Eden

Just came up on iTunes :)

And are you aware that you spelled ballads wrong?

Updated On: 8/28/05 at 09:36 PM

[Phantom05]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:02pm

This Is the Moment may be a great "Ballad, but don't use it for an audition, it's overdone and over-used, lol.....However, for a concert, or if you're actually in the show it's a fun song!

See Ya!

Phantom05

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:25pm

"You Should Be Loved" from Side Show is a great power ballad, I don't remember whether it is sung by a tenor or a baritone, but it is really powerful. Also "Why God, Why" and "Buidoui"(sp???) from Miss Saigon.

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:35am

ahh!! sorry... I did spell it wrong. *goes to fix, and does so* I didn't even notice... must look more carefully next time. Thanks for all these.. but can I get sheet music for ALL of these songs? and where can I find ranges? as in lowest note-highest note? and do most of them have recordings?

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 01:35 AM

[stage_door76]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 6:45am

yes - you can get sheet music for ALL of these songs
yes - you can get recordings for ALL of these songs

the ranges vary, but it seems that a general tenor theme is omnipresent. expect to sing from about a d below middle c to a bflat or c # above middle c.

the ranges will obviously be obvious when you obvisouly by the sheet music
lol

oh - and whoever suggested 'run freedom, run'; that is SO not a powerful ballad! it is a comical spoof with riffs in a tenor's upper register, it is not even the slightest bit emotive. it's just...loud.

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 06:45 AM

[TabooPhan1]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:39am

Petrified from Taboo is my favorite male power ballad.

[peach]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:30am

Depending on your range and style, here's a mixed up list...

Soliloquy - Carousel
Maria - West Side Story
One Song Glory - RENT
Any Dream Will Do - Joseph...
Corner of the Sky - Pippin
Bring Him Home - Les Miz
Music of the Night - Phantom
Goodbye Old Girl - Damn Yankees

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:12pm

Okay... I have recordings for a lot of these songs, and can get them for most of the ones I don't have... however... I can't find a recording for Waiting for the Moon. It shows nothing on IBDB either.. so did it have a Broadway run? and was it successful? That's the only one I can't find ANYTHING on. THank you all so much for all of this information.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:05pm

Please.Change.subject.

[Jwei123]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:32pm

"If I can't love her" -Beauty and the Beast

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:22pm

I love This Nearly Was Mine. How about No Other Love, from Me and Juliet? There are so many great ballads out there - if you want a beautiful, really beautiful song that doesn't need belted, try "A Fellow Needs a Girl" from Allegro - when I did it in class, everyone was crying by the end - its just very simple and very sweet.

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:11pm

I don't know if anyone's said this but maybe "Why" from Tick, Tick Boom. My friend sang that at my theatre camp and I almost cried because he sang it really well and acted it really well and it's a powerful song. The song should be sung by a tenor.

[Act0r721]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:18pm

Barrett's Song - Titanic

<3

[leon1489]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:19pm

Okay, so this is kind of related to tenors, but whatever, it was brought up on this thread.

People constantly say to be considered a tenor you have to sing a high C... yet most tenor roles on Broadway go up to a high Ab... maybe high A, depending on the role. Now, I realize there's exceptions, but the majority of roles don't require that kind of tenor. In opera they do, but not in musical theatre.

I'm curious to find out from people what roles require that extremely high register for tenors (being one myself).

I realize this is a total thread-jack, but if I opened up my own thread, people would say "There's already a thread on this."

[TheBalladeer]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 5:52pm

Sigh...

Seriously, If I hear the arguement that you have to be able to sing High C's to play tenor roles on Broadway, I will scream.

VERY rarely is there any role that you have to consistantly sing High C's. I can only think of a few roles that actually need you to sing a High C - that being Judas in JCS, Beadle Bamford in Sweeney Todd, and Pirelli in Sweeney.

Most Tenor roles require you to sing up to either a High A or a High B at the extreme...but the most common high notes are around High A or Bb.

You are so right to distinguish the requiements for singing for Musical Theatre and Opera. High C's are more common in Operatic Tenor roles, but even, then is not as EXTREMELY common, as you think.

Furthermore, it would be great to be able to sing a solid High C, as a tenor, but there are different categories of tenors in the operatic classifications too, that have various range requirements....so the point of being able to sing High C's to be a true-blue tenor is ridiculous.

That is all.

Cheers,

The Balladeer

[leon1489]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 6:13pm

Thank you. Finally someone who agrees with me.

[HamletWasBipolar]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:25pm

And actually balladeer, I dont even think that Judas goes up to a high c. I totally agree with what you said. I'm a lyric baritone, or bari-tenor, and there are very few musical theatre songs that I cant get out. One that comes to mind is Freddy in Chess, as he does wail a few high c's , as does also Piangi in Phantom. Of course that is closer to opera, than musical theatre anyhow. I kind of top out on Love Cant Happen, which is an A. I also laugh when so many people say they crank out b's and c's on this site. I'm like, um full voice? Falsetto= not the same thing...lol. Doesnt everybody have like an 9 inch penis on the internet as well?

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 7:31pm

Ditto. The number of times i've argued over this on this board is frustrating.

Thanks for some good common sense Balladeer.

"I also laugh when so many people say they crank out b's and c's on this site. I'm like, um full voice? Falsetto= not the same thing...lol. Doesnt everybody have like an 9 inch penis on the internet as well? "

The hardest i've laughed today.

[bbroadwaybb]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:33pm

Judas (as well as Jesus) goes higher than a C. In his "Judas' Suicide" he sings an above the staff E natural. "I don't know how to LOVE him." There were many men singing high Cs and higher in Good Vibrations - principals and chorus.

You certainly don't need high C's to be a tenor on B'way, but it does happen.

[TheBalladeer]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:54pm

True Judas and Jesus do occasionally go above a High C, but that is often done in rock falsetto, (if the Judas and Jesus have sense) and in falsetto. To try and belt those high D's and E's = screaming, which is not good for vocal health. I have heard so many horror stories about guys screwing up their voices playing Judas because the feel they have to scream High D's and Es above the staff. That is moronic. I did forget about Freddy....but how often is Chess done?

You said guys were singing High C's consistantly in Good Vibrations in the ensemble? Was it in full voice of falsetto? I haven't seen the show. Just curious. That would be very interesting indeed if they were belting out C's eight times a week in the ensemble.

Cheers,
The Balladeer

[millie_dillmount]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:09pm

What jwei said.

[bbroadwaybb]

Posted: 8/29/05 at 10:16pm

GV - Sometimes mixy, sometimes full belt. I'm specifically remembering Wouldn't It Be Nice.

JC Superstar - you would sound like an IDIOT doing anything up there in falsetto. There are ways of singing up there without shreading yourself. Listen to any recording of Pity The Child.