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#26

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:13pm

Dolly, that's the perfect way to describe Sondheim's lyrics. Clever little tongue twisters.

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"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."

#27

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:34pm

And yet they sound so harmless!

Updated On: 11/11/04 at 10:34 PM

#28

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/11/04 at 10:53pm

mattio... not while i'm around... amen... i think the bridge part is so difficult to learn... i mean i get it done... but it just takes so much effort and thought!

#29

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 12:50am

Not While I'm Around (SWEENEY TODD)
Mama, Look Sharp (1776)
The Role of a Lifetime (BARE)

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#30

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 12:57am

"Later" from A Little Night Music

It's that sustained high, chesty belt in the end.
"For Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood's SAKE!"
It's supposed to sound like a scream, but you just have to hold it straight-tone. REALLY difficult. For me anyway, I'm Classical Boy.
Great acting song though.

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Word. Word, indeed.

#31

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 12:59am

Lost in the Wilderness from "Children of Eden" and anything that the stupid 1st tenor sings in "Songs For A New World"

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 12:59 AM

#32

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:01am

That songs not so hard provided you don't take Darius's liberties.
Do you have access to the London recording? That guy sings it straight like the music.

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Word. Word, indeed.

#33

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:03am

I ALWAYS f*ck up the end of Dance of the Robe.

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#34

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:04am

Whenever I stand on a forklift in my living room and try to perform defying gravity, it's always hard to belt. I don't know what to do, I'm so depressed about it...


right.

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

#35

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:06am

No, I don't have the London recording. I didn't know there was a London recording. I love the way Darius de Haas sings that song though.

#36

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:28am

Defying Gravity is hard. I usually lose my breath during the last few belts. The Wizard and I is the easiest I think.

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#37

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:34am

It premiered in London. That's why it says "American Premiere Recording" on the cover of the one you have. He's not nearly as good as Darius, it's just another way of doing it. They "pop-i-fied" it MUCH more for the American recording.

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Word. Word, indeed.

#38

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 1:42am

I really like Darius, but Stephanie Mills makes me wanna vomit when I hear her sing. I can't STAND listening to that girl.

#39

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 4:23am

Oh my God Stephanie Mills DOES suck! She totally stuffs up Spark of Creation, which is one of the coolest songs eva (apart from Lost in the Wilderness and of course all the songs from Wicked)

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#40

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 8:43am

Hands-down: "A Summer in Ohio" from The Last Five Years. It requires amazing belting skills which I absolutely haven't got. I can belt up leading to some note, and then I'll have to resort into my soft, little soprano voice. And it bothers me to no end, because I really love that song. *pout*

#41

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 10:12am

The London Lost in the Wilderness is nothoing like the America, the score Isn't even the same. I'm a baritenor with a G# at the top of my range and a low C3 at the bottom. I have a strong broadway voice and a sometimes better legit. I need those A's and B's because baritone/bass parts don't exist in any new musicals. I have problems with the exact same songs as Mattio98 even with Being Alive (except I can't get the solid interval to the F) but with What is it About her and alot of the Burrs songs (Make Me Happy) he hits those notes so well.

#42

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 10:26am

When I did Into the Woods, I never ever felt like I was doing a good job singing "I know Things Know." Something about that song just irked me, and I never could get it right.

#43

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 10:37am

One of the hardest songs for me to sing was "I Do Not Know a Day I Did Not Love You" from TWO BY TWO. The whole song is intervals, and the range on it is insane.

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#44

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 10:57am

Still Hurting ~ L5Y. Not the hardest song for me to sing, but I'm no Sherie Rene Scott, so I always think I sound like crap lol

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#45

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 12:32pm

BroadwayBound06, the amazing Brian d'Arcy James hits a beautiful B flat in Make Me Happy. Actually, he hits it 2 or 3 times.

Updated On: 11/12/04 at 12:32 PM

#46

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 2:40pm

I have to agree with "Later" from A Little Night Music, and I also want to add "Love Changes Everything"....that High Bb at the end scares the crap out of me.....


Cheers,
The Balladeer

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#47

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 3:33pm

meadowlark.

#48

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:40pm

I don't find DEFYING GRAVITY too hard, so long as I focus.

The songs I find hard to sing are:

I BELIEVE MY HEART (Woman In White) - for some reason whilst I can hit top Bbs no problem, I struggle with songs which contain repetitive Es & Fs. The tone sounds quite dark - maybe cos it's in my passagio?

WHEN YOU'RE GONE (Rage of the Heart) - nasty intervals

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Phantom of the Opera) - I struggle to jump up to the Ab for the trills at the end.

#49

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:47pm

Phantom of the Opera (POTO): it goes from so low to so high, somtimes I feel like I'm straining.

Buddy's Blues (Follies): Diction DICTION DICTION!

Lost in the Wilderness (Children of Eden): again, goes kinda low to extremely high.
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Fifty Million Years Ago (Celebration): OMG that song go so high! Also the notes you sing in it are so different from the accompinament that you don't know whether your flat or on.

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"Sing the words, Patti!!!!" Stephen Sondheim to Patti LuPone.

#50

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:52pm

Fifty Million Years Ago ain't too bad, but I TOTALLY know what you're talking about the whole - "notes you sing in it are so different from the accompinament that you don't know whether your flat or on". lol I had the same problem.