Rosario singing - Without You — Page 3

I doubt "he" will tell...but are there any guesses out there?

WaxLion please give us a clue who you are, or at least more insider information..

Updated On: 8/16/05 at 04:09 PM

i can't believe people are forming passionate opinions based on this recording. she sounds dreadful? i can barely hear her at all! i'm holding off til something more substantial comes through.

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I agree...how can anyone pass judgment on such a distorted audio of the song?

I think Rosario will be fine (and yes, I saw Daphne as Mimi), she's a good actress. I thought she was terrific in "Sin City."

She's not going to be a Daphen, i can tell you that, Daphen has a VERY unique voice. But i've heard this clip before and this clip gave me faith that she was going to make a great Mimi.

Exactly. That's the point I was trying to make. If she is the star of the show (which she's not, but that's the way they are publicising the film) let us hear her sing. Since we all know the others can, we've heard them ALL sing live, except for Rosario.

showbiz you are wrong on so many levels. yes i am a fan of rosario's but that's beside the point. i would have come to the defense of any other actress that would have been cast in this role if i felt she was right for the role REGARDLESS of the fact if she were a Broadway actress or not.

your opinions are not based on knowledge, they have no basis other than being a bad case of sour grapes on your part.
what argument do you *really* have that Rosario is not right for this part? That she hasn't done "BROADWAY"? That's hardly a valid point.

i've posted this before and I will post it again. If you live in the NYC area try to catch Rosario in "TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA", she's required to sing LIVE six performances a week and then come back and let us know if you think she can sing or not.


Why does it have to be about BROADWAY VS. MOVIE actors? ACTORS are ACTORS and this is an ACTING ROLE. That is the point many of you are not getting. If Rosario wasn't right for this role I would definitely agree with many of the things you are saying but I don't.

What you are saying is that it's a movie version of a Broadway show and that only Broadway actors should have been cast.
You have a very limited mind-set. What ever happened to choosing the right person for the role..period?

If every producer though that way look at all the wonderful performances we would have missed out on in movie versions of Broadway musicals. One that comes to mind is Rita Moreno in "West Side Story". She wasn't a Broadway name yet she was cast in the movie version of "West Side Story" and she won an Oscar for it. Would it have been nice to have seen Chita do the role on screen? Yes it would have, but that simply wasn't the case. But it also doesn't mean that Rita shouldn't have been given the opportunity to do the role either. Same goes for Rosario in "RENT".


EDIT: I am through with this debate. It's a done deal. It's a fact you guys are going to have to live with. There's nothing you can do about it but get over it.

Updated On: 8/17/05 at 11:27 AM

Going by what's been said by those people who have heard Rosario singing in rehearsals, on a playback, or live in person, I have a feeling that's she's just going to absolutely blow us all away, even if she's never tread the boards, as it were.

Oh, Vbplayer... I think that there were talks regarding one of the actresses from "Will and Grace" performing in a production of "Guys and Dolls" over in London. Perhaps that's what you were thinking about?

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I'd like you to consider some of the other cast members for this movie; members of the Original Broadway Cast. Some with little training, and one of whom has said he auditioned for the stage production "on a lark," because someone suggested it and he had nothing better to do at the time - now he's a pretty well-liked Broadway leading man. Perhaps somebody should've looked at him and gone "well, he can sing, but he has no training. No way." And you know what? The theatre community would be missing someone very, very special.

So, like I said before, maybe this "lark" is Rosario's way in to where she just might deserve to be. Let's wait and see. I'm usually not very open to the crossover either, but there are people on board for this film whose judgement I fully, absolutely trust.

And everything's so extreme - if they don't showcase her, it can't just be that they're not showcasing her. It has to be that they're "hiding her like she's the plague." Most of the country, the general movie-going population has no conception of the sets of pipes on the Broadway actors; they're not being "showcased" either. But just because we know they can sing, you'd not accuse *them* of being hidden. My goodness, big statement.

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Updated On: 8/17/05 at 02:21 PM

I need to hear this recording; if it's the What You Own playback, he sounds brilliant. It's. A. Crappy. Recording.

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Bangerang, Wax Lion.

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Emcee,

Thanks, but Wax Lion doesn't need help down from his soap box yet. The guns are out and he's fired up. Don't nobody mess with his good friend Ro.

Love,
Wax Lion

...and to think that people are calling Ro out on incompetance before they even see the actual performance?! Wax Lion is still REELING from this!! He needs to go to the mojito thread asap...

Love,
Wax Lion