The hardest song for you to sing — Page 3

#51

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 5:54pm

it's honestly that every note is a flat so you WANT to go tweak the note a bit but you can't because that's how it's WRITTEN! Ugh! So annoying! But I love it anyways.

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

#52

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 6:05pm

the Wizard and I

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Wicked Witch of the West

#53

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 6:09pm

"Unusual Way" - I LOVE THIS SONG. It has a special meaning to me so I wanted to learn it. I can't do it right because I feel like if I focus too much on the mechanics the meaning would be lost but if I don't I sound like a frog.

I am in a Sondheim kind of fix. I'm working on Broadway Baby and I want to do Losing My Mind after my school musical auditions.

Plum, Yay for Mezzos who love Hugh Jackman!

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Thou giveth fever.

#54

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 6:13pm

LEA!!!!! k. sorry.

hm...I had trouble singing 'Whatcha Wanna Do?', but that was because I can't rap if my life depended on it.

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"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

#55

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 7:05pm

PONINE!!!

Also I had problems with Lea Salonga songs. It isn't that they are difficult in range or anything, it just took me forever to realize that no matter how hard I try I will never sound as perfect as she does so I have to throw my own spin onto them.

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Thou giveth fever.

#56

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 7:57pm

I think "Last Night of the World" isn't very hard, but I just NEVER sound good on it...I'm always straining.

#57

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 8:36pm

At first, I thought "The Life of the Party" from Wild Party Lippa version was the easiest song because you could pretend you were drunk and go crazy but going as high as Idina does in that version ruined my voice. I slowly got worse and worse at it and when I went to go check out my voice they found two nodes.

#58

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 8:45pm

Also... has anyone heard a decent version of "if I were a Bell" from Guys & Dolls b/c i have to audition with that song and i song liek a total dork trying to imitate the movie version!

#59

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 8:59pm

make it your own. don't try to imitate someone else.

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"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

#60

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 9:04pm

I third whoever said Phantom of the Opera. I can hit the high notes perfectly fine (i'm a high soprano) but the going from high to low is UGH for me.

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-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida

#61

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 10:53pm

You're Daddy's Son, I just can't get the sound I want out of it when I perform it. In rehearsal great but nerves take over with that piece. Don't know?

#62

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 11:02pm

I think one of the hardest things i have ever had to do was not one song, but two... Having to sing apology to a cow, after one has run out o fthe theater after inside your heart, is the hardest thing i think ever in musical theater. I was rediculously out of breath all the time, and spent all energy that i had was gone after those two songs.

#63

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/12/04 at 11:35pm

normally
the end of the speed test
its just the gas (the dentist death song) from lsoh

on a bad day
trouble
we both reached for the gun

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#64

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 11/13/04 at 1:01am

sweeedboy - when I did the show, the actor who played Edgar always complained about that EXACT same thing. Those are 2 EXTREMELY difficult songs and is incredibly hard to sing them one right after the other.

#65

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 4/14/05 at 2:38am

I always have difficulty singing "Heaven on their mind" from Jesus Christ Superstar and it is one of my favorite songs from that musical. Ive always wanted to play Judas lol , but I if there is an audition for this musical in Toronto , I will have to practice so much that song. Does anyone else have troubles getting the first JESUSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! ?

#66

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 4/14/05 at 8:09am

"For some reason I have difficulty with "Being Alive". It doesn't even have anything to do with the range, I just get carried away with the emotional part and forget my technique."


So i'm not the only one!! Being Alive's a bitch to do the whole singing/acting cause you inevidably go over the top with a lyric like "Somebody crowd me with love".


The Serenade from The Student Prince is seriously the hardest music theatre song for tenor ever. It's basically operatic.

#67

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 4/14/05 at 8:48am

"Something's Coming" (easy to trip over the words)

"Anthem" - Once you hear Warlow sing it, you think....why bother.

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#68

re: The hardest song for you to sing

Posted: 4/14/05 at 8:59am

Margeurite from The Scarlett Pimpernell. I tried this song in college, but could never sing it with the passion or wonder of Dave Clemmons rendition on the concept recording. I Gave up and realised that he is the only person that can make this song hauntingly beautiful.

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"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive. "Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot." "No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one." Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.