Tasty Riffs

[BumpwithBalloons]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:03pm

Broadwayworlders! I need your help again... can you give me a list of some tasty riffs in Broadway Musical Recordings. And I mean tastier then Idina's final riff in Defying Gravity. We're talking real tasty!

[toanythingtaboo 2]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:10pm

If you want hardcore riffing, see Shoshana Bean.

Her voice is a freak of nature, in a good way of course.

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:26pm

"If you want hardcore riffing, see Shoshana Bean.

Her voice is a freak of nature, in a good way of course. "

You read my mind!

Sam Harris also comes to mind.....

[B3TA07]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:39pm

Eden in ReNt.

[wicked_beast4]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:42pm

I third Sho!! She's phenom!!!

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 2:53pm

not cast recordings but here are some musical theatre performers who can f*cking riff it out.... start checking them out on YouTube.


Antonique Smith from RENT

Marty Thomas from XANADU

Danny Calvert from ALTAR BOYZ

Natalie Weiss from EVER AFTER

Sasha Allen from LITTLE SHOP

the updated arrangement of "White Boys" from the HAIR Benefit Concert

Gavin Creel singing basically anything

Patina Miller from BEING ALIVE!

Tituss Burgess (especially that amazing riff he does in the JERSEY BOYS track of "Oh, What A Night" towards the end)

Jesse Nager from MARY POPPINS

Cortney Wolfson from LEGALLY BLONDE

and Kate Shindle from LB (her rendition of Heart's "Alone" is fantastic)

[gonepishing]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 5:39pm

[ljay889]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 5:40pm

How the hell can you taste a riff?

[singingbackup]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 5:45pm

We now return to our regularly scheduled topic, already in progress:

On the OBCR of "In The Heights" during '96,000' Karen Olivo sings an amazing riff:
"I'll be down tow oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh wn"
Updated On: 7/31/08 at 05:45 PM

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 5:59pm

gonepishing, I was gonna suggest this instead:

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 6:27pm

Julie Reiber in Wicked has some great riffs. Nothing like Eden Espinosa or Shoshana Bean but still good.

[jeff_thedancer]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 6:29pm

UGH. I hate when people try to be clever and always put up the same pictures.

I Love Scott Alans Music because he always riffs when he sings so its easily written into his songs....Tasty

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 7/31/08 at 6:44pm

The only Riff on Broadway EVER should be the one in West Side Story.

[bwaycomposer]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 11:54am

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bobby+Cronin&search_type=&aq=f

Watch Marty Thomas, Kate Pazakis, Jenn Furman and Brad Bass for some very tasty riffing!

[pants2]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 12:28pm

Youtube search- shoshana bean ain't no way

you'll get the picture.

[sgv123]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 1:05pm

not that big, but..............

kerry ellis- the wizard and i- 1:09


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J84KX1zIvFc

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 6:28pm

Simone in Aida! now that was amazing!

and to some extent... Billy Porter in Miss Saigon, although he seemed to go a bit overboard

[toanythingtaboo 2]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 6:38pm

YES.

Shoshana Bean's 'Ain't No Way' is stunning.

I wasn't aware she could sing in the 'whistle register' till I heard that song.

The studio recorded version of that is on her myspace page.

Plus, the 'climax' of that song is sung with a lot more ease than some recordings of her doing Defying Gravity when she just goes insane, again in a good way.

[javertim]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 8:22pm

It's hard for me to imagine anything else beating out Darlene Love's "I Know Where I've Been."

[ljay889]

Posted: 8/1/08 at 8:32pm

Billy Porter always goes overboard with riffs.

[jaso937]

Posted: 8/2/08 at 1:20am

White boys from the HAIR BCEFA cd is riff heaven. Shoshana Bean is a riffing queen. Natalie weiss has amahzing clarity in her riffs. Like you can hear every single note pristenely (sp.?) Jennifer Hudsons And I Am Telling You has some very nice riffs as well. I love Billy Porters On the Corner of Broadway and Soul CD cus every song has at least 10 riffs in it. Check out the broadway boys (freakish riffing with harmonies!!!) on youtube with danny Calvert (riffer madness (which should totes be an actual disease)) OOo and Titus Burgess has amahzing riffs in the Little Mermaid (not so much on the cd but in the youtube vids) and Jersey Boys cd. I love riffs!
Updated On: 8/2/08 at 01:20 AM