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Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
#25re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:12pm
I forgive you, Im just gonna need some time alone, thespian geek.
I'm sorry! 
LOL Want a cookie?
IveGottaBeME
Leading Actor Joined: 1/15/05
#26re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:17pmKristin Cheno, Julia Murney (but not in Wicked for some reason)
#27re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:18pm
Dorothy Loudon
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#28re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:21pm
Sutton Foster. Her belt, while placed nicely, grates on my nerves, especially on The Maury Yeston Songbook.
*waits for the crucifixion*
"Peace! The charm's wound up."
--Macbeth
#29re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:23pm
I forgot..
BETTY BUCKELEY on Elegies.
You can hear her vocal chords bleeding.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#30re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:24pmDaphne Ruben Vega
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#31re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:28pm
Daphne Loudon
Michael Crawford
Carol Channing (if she counts)
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
blueroses
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/18/04
#32re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:28pm
Liza Minelli
Michael Crawford
Linda Eder (I respect her instrument, but she's just lacking in...something. Life? Soul? Passion?)
Outside of the Broadway arena:
Andrea Bocelli
Mariah Carey
Kelly Clarkson
Christina Aguilera most of the time (though I love Candyman!)
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#33re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:51pm
Kelly Clarkson? *gasp*
For me, Ethel Merman.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#34re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:57pm
Bebe Neuwirth
Michael Crawford (especially as Phantom)
Carol Channing
Ann Reinking (in her later years)
Donna McKechnie
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#35re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:57pm
idina menzel (except on the wild party)
bernadette peters
carol channing
ethel merman
liza minelli
anne reinking
daphne rubin vega
...wow with this list i'm pretty much marked for death by all facets of theater people *takes cover*
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
BNN
Broadway Star Joined: 12/12/05
#36re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:59pm
Patti LuPone (when she says certain words)
Bebe Neuwirth
Jerry Orbach (sometimes 
)
Tick Tock
#37re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:14pmOOH! I got so many ideas from you guys. I have to second Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster. While both great instruments, they both get annoying after a while. Its kinda like eating too much sugar.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#38re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:15pmMichael Crawford and Sarah Brightman make me want to kill somebody. Anne Reinking isn't much better.
"You're the worst thing to happen to musical theatre since Andrew Lloyd Webber!" --Family Guy
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
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"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#39re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:20pm
Cheno
Idina (though I don't know if she's on the respected singers list. no. that wasn't a dig. I just don't know where she falls in this respect. she's not as shrill in "see what I wanna see")
Sarah brightman
michael crawford
Christine Andreas (at times)
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
HatBoy
Leading Actor Joined: 10/30/05
#40re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:23pm
Daphne Rubin Vega
And sometimes I find Eden Espinosa gets a wierd vocal quality when pronouncing some words while she's "belting".
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#41re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:33pmSutton Foster has a fantastic voice, but constant bright belting does get a little repetitive.
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
JoMarch
Featured Actor Joined: 9/22/04
#42re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:41pmAna Gasteyer. She can belt and hit all the notes but I think her voice sounds really ugly.
#43re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:49pm
May I add to the list, and I might be alone on this one:
Barbara Cook
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#44re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:54pm
-Christine Andreas (That God awful vibratto on the Scarlet Pimpernel recording pretty much made me decide on the Encore! version instead, although I am looking forward to seeing the Piazza tour.)
-Ethel Merman (I just... don't get it?)
-Bernadette
-Sarah Brightman
and probably more..
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#45re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:54pm
In theatre:
Sarah Brightman (irritating and shrill and psuedo-operatic)
Michael Crawford (just....unimpressive)
Patti Lupone , though I liked her in the performance of Candide(I don't like her tone, vibrato, diction, etc)
Mandy Patinkin (do I even need to explain?)
Liza Minelli (her vibrato makes my ears bleed)
Ethel Merman, only on certain songs
Shoshana Bean (I don't care if she's been classically trained at a prestigious school, that nasal tone and 'i'm black in a white girl's body' riffing just don't cut it for me)
non theatre:
Aretha Franklin (I just don't like her, I've never cared for her voice at all)
Diana Ross, though I prefer her with the Supremes (never understood the big deal with her)
Mariah Carey (no explanation needed)
I could name plenty more, but they're not considered respected singers.
I don't WANT to live in what they call "a certain way." In the first place I'd be no good at it and besides that I don't want to be identified with any one class of people. I want to live every whichway, among all kinds---and know them---and understand them---and love them---THAT's what I want! - Philip Barry (Holiday)
Updated On: 8/24/06 at 05:54 PM
alba
Chorus Member Joined: 5/16/06
#46re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 5:57pmPearl Bailey. And I love Elaine Stritch, but in recent years her charming growl has withered into a stringy instrument at points...
#47re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:00pm
Broomstick Boy: 2 things...
1.)I LOVE drop dead gorgeous.
2.) Sarah Brightman is not operatic, she is shrill with a lazy vibrato. If it is opera, it is extremely poorly trained. Yes she can sing high, no she does not have pitch problems. But, her technique is awful. I do not know why she was ever called an opera singer. Idina Menzel is more of an opera singer...
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
Al Dente
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#48re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:05pmAny one of the popular woman who have a jack hammer-esque vibrato drive me batty. I also find nothing soothing about Espinosa's voice.
#49re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 6:08pm
Idina Menzel.
For some reason her voice really just grinds my gears.
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