The Best Female Voice on Broadway- Page 2
The Best Female Voice on Broadway
#25re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 3:40pm
Karen Olivo
Josefina Scaglione
Patti LuPone
Laura Benanti
Heidi BLickenstaff
Kristen Chenoweth
Sutton Foster
Stephanie J. Block
#26re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:06pm
Audra Mcdonald is my all time favorite. Beneath her I would say:
Kelli O'Hara
Kristen Chenoweth
Stephanie J. Block
Marin Mazzie
Laura Benanti
Kerry Butler
Christine Ebersole
Just to name a few...
Madcap Maisie
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/08
#27re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:22pm
Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton...
Those sound like such cop out answers, but I really think that they deserve all of the hype they get.
"You know what really makes me mad? When girls think they can sing just because they are on the Disney Channel."
#28re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 4:36pmElaine Stritch. With the right makeup and lighting she'd make a killer replacement Nellie Forbush.
#29re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:34pmThis is a really tough decision, but I think I'm gonna go with Sutton Foster.
fizzthelibertine
Understudy Joined: 4/30/08
#31re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:40pm
She really is exquisite. 
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
#32re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:45pmYES! I was surprised that Audra hadn't gotten more mentions up until this point. She has the most gorgeous voice I've ever heard on a woman.
"Who else would teach my son how to catch a football ball?"
- Dr. Niles Crane
#33re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:46pmI say Audra and Sutton ftw!
Current Avatar - Sutton Foster, accepting the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Velociraptor.
#34re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:56pmNot that she is "on Broadway" but Bernadette Peters.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#35re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 5:57pmCurrently on Broadway? Kelli O'Hara and Sutton Foster.
Off_at_a_Canter
Swing Joined: 2/2/09
#36re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 8:27pm
SJB followed by Sutton.
Sherrie? Really? Her Ursula's ok... but her Cathy and Amneris? *Cringe* Which stinks b/c TL5Y is such a good show.
#37re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:13pm
I have to add that, based solely on the Music in the Air videos, I'm impressed with Sierra Boggess' voice. I don't know if I'd say she had the best voice on Broadway, but it's certainly a lovely voice.
for women not currently on Broadway, some of my favorites are Patti (shocker!), Victoria Clark, Laura Benanti, Donna Murphy (I've always likened her voice to a clarinet or an oboe, especially on the Passion OBC) and, tbh, Alison Fraser. I think because I've been on a Secret Garden kick for a while, but I love how unique her voice is. in a similar vein, I like Kerry Butler's voice an awful lot, too.
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-Kad
Updated On: 2/2/09 at 09:13 PM
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#38re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 9:18pmThe best female voice for me on Broadway is Lea Salonga.
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#39re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:35pmSierra Boggess...and definitely Audra.
#40re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/2/09 at 10:44pm
Laura Benanti, Bernadette Peters, Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Lea Salonga, and Kelli O'Hara.
Gah...their names just sound like singer's names!
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Stand-by Joined: 10/17/08
#41re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 10:48am
"Sherrie? Really? Her Ursula's ok... but her Cathy and Amneris? *Cringe* Which stinks b/c TL5Y is such a good show."
I, for one, thought she sounded fabulous as Cathy and Amneris. I did not LOVE her Ursula-but her voice was truthfully the only thing I enjoyed about that show. And in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels she was absolutly phenominal-and don't even get me started on her One Woman Show. I could listen to her sing for days-
#42re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 10:56am
Of all currently alive female Broadway performers: Christine Ebersole, without a doubt. Her singing voice is pitch-perfect and flawless.
Currently performing on Broadway: I'll give it to Sutton Foster. The girl can certainly belt (I would have said Sherie had she not just finished her run in The Little Mermaid).
And Kristin Chenoweth if we're going to count City Center as being on Broadway.
"It's the little things; the details, that distinguish the Barbra Streisands from the Rosalyn Kinds."~Gilmore Girls~
Updated On: 2/3/09 at 10:56 AM
#43re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:07am
"I have to add that, based solely on the Music in the Air videos, I'm impressed with Sierra Boggess' voice. I don't know if I'd say she had the best voice on Broadway, but it's certainly a lovely voice."
I agree. I love everything about Sierra's voice. She has a gorgeous soprano as well as a great belt. Just listening to her talk is a treat for me, I just love the way her voice sounds.
#44re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 11:39amAudra McDonald, Victoria Clark, Christine Ebersole, and Sara Ramirez are my picks.
#45re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 12:26pm
If we're going to look old school: Barbara Cook and Barbara Harris take it for me.
I also LOVE Ruthie Henshall's voice - I know she hasn't done much on Broadway, but I saw her in Putting it Together so she counts.
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#46re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 7:54pm
Old school legit: Barbara Cook
New school legit (and my favorite): Audra McDonald
Old school mixer: Liz Callaway
New school mixer: Natalie Weiss
Old school belter: Ethel Merman
New school belter: Patti LuPone
djb
Stand-by Joined: 5/17/06
#48re: The Best Female Voice on Broadway
Posted: 2/3/09 at 8:20pm
PATTI, of course.
It's a part of her persona; it commands everyone's attention whether you like it or not.
Very, verrry close second is Christine Ebersole. I forget how talented she is sometimes, and then I will hear something from "Grey Gardens" and go, "Yeah, that's a star."
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Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/08
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