Roles for low, low altos- Page 2
Roles for low, low altos
sassypanz
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/05
peach
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/29/05
#26re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 4:27pmiluvtheatretrash - yes, Anita's vocals are quite low throughout. There's just that one note in A Boy Like That, that's on the high-er side for a belt (but very easy to hit in head voice or using a mix).
seasons of love
Leading Actor Joined: 1/8/05
#27re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 4:31pmYes, Bianca sings "Why Can't You Behave." That's a good song for altos...
"I am unfinished- I am diminished
With or without you..."
trpguyy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/25/05
#28re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 4:46pmLucy in Jekyll and Hyde is technically an alto part, but doesn't go real low.
#29re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 6:01pmSassypanz, afraid not. Just got off of an ITW as Jack's Mom, and she goes up to a high F#. It's definitely not an alto part.
Elizabeth_DeBris
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#30re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 6:05pmNow that I think about it, Kim and Domina may not really be altos... stageagent has them listed as such, but I feel like they go higher. Either way, I don't think I'd define them as "low" altos.
queenie2
Understudy Joined: 1/20/05
#31re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 6:06pmI dont think Velma in chicago isnt a low alto. It isnt alto at all. Velma is mezzo.
AnothaPartofMe
Broadway Star Joined: 5/22/04
#32re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/4/05 at 8:47pmIf you take the JOSEPH... score and sing it in the Laurie Beechman key, it's a nice and easy alto part.
And if she'll say, "My darling, I'm yours!" I'll throw away my striped tie and my best pressed tweed, all I really need is the girl...
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#33re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/15/05 at 3:04pm
Low, low alto:
Luisa in Nine. Range: Low E flat to high D. (I.e., the D just above the C above middle C) Great role. Played it twice now. 
Eva in Evita has to hit low E over and over again...but also has to belt/mix up to high A. (Played that one once...so fun!)
Nancy in Oliver is a great one, too...
And I don't know if you dance (or if it's been said already), but Charity in Sweet Charity is very low, too. (I don't know if they've changed keys for the revivals, but the original is super low.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#34re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:27pm
Jack's Mother can't be an alto. Watch the original cast DVD. However, if you listen to the revival... she is.
Rapunzel isn't an alto unless you're doing Into the Woods Jr. Although I'm an alto and I've been told I could pull off Rapunzel quite well (only because I have a high pitched blood-curdling scream and I'm blonde. Geez.).
If anyone in Into the Woods is an alto, it's the Baker's Wife. Except in the revival cast recording where everything she sings is an octave higher than what Joanna Gleason sang in the revival.
And yes. I have no life outside of Sondheim shows.
#35re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/7/06 at 8:46pmThe character who sings "Turn Back O' Man" in Godspell...
"Art is always in crisis: you must work fast to write in the breath on the window."
-Edward Bond
#36re: Roles for low, low altos
Posted: 5/7/06 at 10:50pm
Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes
Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!
Annie in Annie Get Your Gun
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