Marty Thomas "Defying Gravity"?

[Elphabuff2]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:17pm

Does anyone know of a site that has the clip of Marty Thomas singing "'Defying Gravity' in the original key!"
Updated On: 4/12/05 at 11:17 PM

[MTRBOI24]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:24pm

I dont know, but a friend of mine did Defying Gravity in the original key and I was BLOWN away. It was so good.

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:29pm

ok people. when they say original key, that doesn't necessarily mean the same notes as idina. it can simply be an octave down and still be in the same key.

[Elphabuff2]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:30pm

Pardon the ignorance; who exactly has sung "Defying Gravity" in the "original key"? I assume they might be referring to Idina, ie, original "Elphaba"?

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:32pm

idina and shosh have obviously, but any man can sing it just an octave down.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:32pm

But idina doesn't sing it as it originally was - she took artistic liberty

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:33pm

what key it is in is not artistic liberty, her riffs are.

[bobbystrong]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:54pm

OK - yes, an octave down would be the same key - but obviously he did not just sing it one octave down - he hit the same notes in the same octave that "Elphabas" sing it...

One whole octave down of "Defying Gravity" is pretty low and easy for a male voice...that wouldn't be very impressive - for example - when Raul Esparza sang it at Chatterbox, he didn't sing it in the original Idina octave, but sang it way higher than one octave down... Updated On: 4/12/05 at 11:54 PM

[apdarcey]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:56pm

i know that. that's why i was wondering what the big deal was... because it didn't say the original voicing, it said the original key.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/12/05 at 11:58pm

I'm trying to remember what note Raul's version went up to. He said it was in "his key," but that's still pretty damned high for a guy.

[Trisky]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:02am

I'm very non-technical when it comes to this voice/note thing, but... having heard Marty do the song last night, I have to say, from my untrained ear he went just as high as Idina did. It was actually almost absurd (in a good way).

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:04am

Raul's version is damn high lol. I've been practicing it, and now I can sing it as high as him(I'm so proud of myself :).

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:05am

He can get something like a B flat, normally... I think they said how high the DG arrangement went at the Chatterbox, but I can't remember and it's driving me insane.

[Dreamcatcher]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:05am

Anyone know where I could get my hands on a clip? Sorry, I know that's probably been asked 100 times before but I'm curious.

[JC14]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:33am

I'm pretty sure Raul's version went up to a B. That would mean that the "deFying" crazy, insane, belt note was a B which is extremely high for a guy.

[IMsooHyprToday]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:35am

i heard a clip, (not to say that it was bad - which it wasn't) but i didnt really care for it all that much. it was a heck of alot better than i could ever do, but i just like when men sound like men.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:46am

I loved Raul's Defying Gravity. I've only heard the clips he had on his website, but I wish I could hear the whole song.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 12:47am

He got bonus points for doing the "Idina hands," too.

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:04am

Marty Thomas has an incredible range. I heard him do Celine Dion's version of "I Drove All Night" in her key and he was amazing. I'd not be surprised if he did it in the "female" key the way it is done on stage.

[MTRBOI24]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:05am

A B isnt extremely High for a guy.....All Tenors should have a B. Now.....the D and the F that Marty sings in Defying Gravity is extremley High.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:25am

clips?

[Nomimalone]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:32am

I am a friend of Marty's and I didn't hear him do Defying Gravity last night but I did hear him sing it at an audition a while back and he most certainly sang it in the origional show key....Idina's key, Shoshana's key, the same key. He has this freaky middle range between his normal voice and his falsetto, it's really impressive. He hits the high f....it's crazy.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 1:33am

N/M I found clips of Raul

Updated On: 4/13/05 at 01:33 AM

[bjivie2]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 2:55am

Please post the clips!

If you don't already have it, go and buy Marty's CD from cdbaby.com. It's ridiculous. He's one of the craziest tenors I've ever heard.

[BroomstickBoy]

Posted: 4/13/05 at 3:03am

Insane is more like it, LOL, he belts the freakin' F better than Shoshana does.