Rent-Seasons of love note

[dompayne98]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 1:16pm

Ok so in my recent video I talk about the note at the seasons of love and how I think that every actress should be required to do it. I'm aware actresses did it in different ways but the ones that I liked did the high note as some point. I just feel like the note is the icing on the cake to this amazing song. I'm just wondering if anybody else agrees with me or not.

Also feel free to put your favorite seasons of love soloist as well. I'm wondering who will be the most popular!

[IlanaKeller]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 3:26pm

Are you talking about the soloist? It would be impossible to "require" all actresses to do it -- everyone has a different range and voice type. If that's not fit for their range, that doesn't make them any less talented.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 5:29pm

Do you know if Gwen Stewart crafted that note herself and they added it into the actual written music after she had done it? That's happened many times on Broadway, where an actor improvs and it becomes the actual music. For instance, in 'The History of Wrong Guys' in "Kinky Boots", Cyndi Lauper crafted the music with Annaleigh Ashford, who decided to belt out "Charlie, honestly!", rather than sing it in a different way. So perhaps she created the note, and it was an optional thing? In any case, I don't think it is necessarily fair to require the actress who does that track to hit the high note. It's just as effective to me when belted. To answer your last question, Tamika is my favorite soloist of all time, definitely.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 5:37pm

CindersGolightly said: "Do you know if Gwen Stewart crafted that note herself and they added it into the actual written music after she had done it? "

 

The OP knows this, he mentions it in the video.

I agree with Ilana that it might be difficult to require the note for the role, but I love when someone can sing the crap out of that solo. And that note is delicious.

[dompayne98]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 6:17pm

IlanaKeller said: "Are you talking about the soloist? It would be impossible to "require" all actresses to do it -- everyone has a different range and voice type. If that's not fit for their range, that doesn't make them any less talented."

I never said that it makes the person less talented and I'm aware that not every actress could do it but it would be the case that if they couldn't do it, they wouldn't be put in the show and if there was an understudy on, they would get someone else in the cast to do it. And I say this because that part is the main part in that track personally (the rest are still important though).

 

[IlanaKeller]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 6:29pm

There have been plenty of artists who come in and put their own spin on it. I don't think the ability to hit that one note in particular should be make-or-break. Think of "Defying Gravity" and how many different different Elphabas have handled it in different ways. Not necessarily better, or worse, just different, their own.

[dompayne98]

Posted: 12/18/15 at 9:48pm

Yes they each do it differently but they still hit the same note as all the other actresses, they can't just stay on tye same note on belty bit at the end