Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
kissynose
Understudy Joined: 10/1/08
#1Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 11:20amWhen Michael Ball sang Vaults of Heaven at the Royal Albert Hall celebration I was speechless. Evertime I see the clip on Youtube I tear up. I wish he would record that song.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#2re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 11:38am
I was shocked at how only a few people knew he was singing Empty Chairs... at the beginning and it wasn't til he actually sang Empty Chairs at Empty tables that the other people got it!
There's a grief that can't be spoken. (wooo by 1%)
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables (wooo by 99%)
Now my friends are dead and gone.
I once heard someone describe her (Ruthie Henshall) singing as sounding as though she's trying to swallow a whole meatball slightly larger than her windpipe. (The same person compared Michael Ball's singing to sounding as though he's sitting on a washing machine on spin cycle and Colm Wilkinson's to a man with a paralyzed lip trying to eat cottage cheese.) --- Schmerg_The_Impaler
#3re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 12:44pm
I love when MB sings anything anywhere 
"TO LOVE ANOTHER PERSON IS TO SEE THE FACE OF GOD"- LES MISERABLES---
"THERE'S A SPECIAL KIND OF PEOPLE KNOWN AS SHOW PEOPLE... WE'RE BORN EVERY NIGHT AT HALF HOUR CALL!"--- CURTAINS
#4re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 3:32pmI prefer the Tom Jones version, he seems to pull off the "gospel" element of the song better. I love Michael Ball but when he gets into the song and starts swinging around i always break out laughing.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27199361@N08/ Phantom at the Royal Empire Theatre
#5re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 3:44pm
"Cue Schmerg in 3... 2... 1...."
Oh dear, I'm getting predictable in my old age. But yeah, I love watching that video. It's so adorably cheesy. I like when he does that stupid dance and the women in the chorus try to keep straight faces. (Though my little brother is always singing that song in the shower, and it's more and more irritating each time.) I also love his crazy over-the-top version of "Oh What A Circus" and, um, everything else ever.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Updated On: 10/8/08 at 03:44 PM
#6re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 5:44pmI like Michael's rendition of that song as well.
ladybegood
Stand-by Joined: 1/4/08
#7re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 6:17pmHe has sung the definitive version of Sunset Boulevard for me too!
#8re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 6:22pm
I have to bashfully agree. The weird thing is, I always loved Alan Campbell's, John Barrowman's, and even Hugh Jackman's versions, then I heard Mr. Ball's version and I thought, "Ugh, he didn't do so well on this song... can't believe he pronounced it 'boooolevard." But going back to watch the other version that I'd loved before, I suddenly didn't like them at all. Now I watch Michael Ball's version like once a week, "Boooolevard" and all.
He also does my favourite "All I Ask Of You" by far. I have the solo version from one of his albums on my iPod... I feel like if he were the best-known Raoul, the poor character wouldn't get so much hate. He's so convincing as Raoul.
I just realized, it's really weird that already people are associating my name with being a MB fangirl... I've only been a member of this site for a little over a month. Yikes, am I really that obsessive?
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#10re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 10:15pmI especially love the "rehearsal performance" (with his trio doing PEOPLE, CRAZY, LOSING MY MIND and MY FUNNY VALENTINE) on the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall DVD (out in the U.K.) - terrific stuff!
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#11re: Vaults of Heaven- Michael Ball
Posted: 10/8/08 at 10:46pmYes, that little jam session is a lovely little extra!
Videos