Who has good technique?
Who has good technique?
ShbrtAlley44
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/03
#0Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/12/04 at 10:40pmWhich Broadway performers have good singing technique?
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#1re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/12/04 at 10:42pm
As someone has very stridently pointed out to me today, Audra McDonald. I imagine Kristen Chenoweth and Brian Stokes Mitchell can be added to that list as well.
And Ethel Merman, I suppose, just because she's Ethel Merman.
judy_in_disguise
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/31/04
#4re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/12/04 at 11:05pmoh yes she does!
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broadwaysweetheart
Featured Actor Joined: 2/3/04
#6re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:16amYou know who I am going to say, so I won't say his name. Here is a hint.......he is australian and I have mentioned his name a billion and a half times on this board (and no, not Hugh Jackman)
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Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#7re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:19am
But...but...there are no other Australians!
I have no idea what you've posted in the past, but I'm going to guess Anthony Warlow.
#8re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:20amBingo, my Plum friend. Bingo.
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cuteoperaboi
Swing Joined: 7/13/04
#9re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:40am
Hey new to the board so forgive me if I'm doing this wrong.
Good technique would definitely be Hugh Jackman, Marin Mazzie, Audra McDonald(she was trained as an opera singer), Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth, Brian Stokes Mitchell, etc. To be honest with you most people are trained-you have to be...it's just some have better technique than others I would say. But these are the ones that come to mind particularly for me.
Are you a Bern fan?
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#10re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:55amBabs Cook. Technique defined.
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Broadway Matt
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/17/03
#11re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:55amI love her but Bernadette's technique is questionable at best, brutal at worst. Carolee has good technique.
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sweetiedarlinmia
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/04
#12re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:59amI will have to agree with Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell. I was absolutely floored the first time I heard their voices.
jcr279
Stand-by Joined: 9/15/03
#13re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 1:41amSutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth, Carolee C., and Christiane Nole too.......all have great technique.
#14re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:18am
I've been a Marin Mazzie fan for a while - but when I saw her in Man of La Mancha - she couldn't hit any of the top notes of Aldonza's songs (that stuff is hard to sing for most people)...she was flat on every piece. Now, maybe it was an off day for her, but I just didn't like her in the role. Now if Angela Decicco (sp?) had done the role - WOW.
I do agree that Audra had fantastic technique. Along with Barbara Cook, Brian Stokes Mitchell and George Hearn.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#15re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:19amKaren Ziemba.
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broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#16re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:27am
I don't want to repeat any already listed (but I WILL say that Carolee and Audra never fail to FLOOR me), so I will just add one name.
Jessica Grove.
She has a stunning soprano and I HIGHLY suggest getting the 1998 National Tour Cast Recoring of The Wizard of Oz, if for nothing else than Jessica's rendition of Over "The Rainbow"
#17re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:28amyes - Karen Z seems to have very good technique - I have to agree with you there - we just listened to Steel Pier again over the weekend and she sounded wonderful on it. Its really too bad that it was not a good production when it ran on B'way - I think it has so much potential.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#18re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:29amRedhot! Must we bring up Steel Pier when I have yet to have a sip of coffee?? I thought we were friends...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#19re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:57amRath - sorry!LOL...I saw Steel Pier and really didn't like it - but after listening to it again this weekend - I found that there was a lot going for it, and from what I understand - its the direction that killed that show.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#20re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:00amDirection - lead character turning out to be a ghost - whatever...I saw it three times and watched KZ work her ass off for 2 1/2 hours and then KC came out for one song and completely stole the show from her. That was kind of a problem too...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
Updated On: 7/13/04 at 10:00 AM
#21re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:07am
Steel Pier made me think about one of my favorite movies - the original (very old) version of Stairway to Heaven, with David Niven. The story is so beautiful, I'm wondering if it would make a good musical. Basically:
Fighter Pilot goes down with his plane during the war, but only after "bonding" with a female radio operator, who tries to talk him out of jumping from the burning plane. Somehow, he lives - but an angel comes down to tell him it was his time to go. He argues that he has fallen in love with the girl and wants to live - so the rest of the movie is sort of a story of him defending love and the right to live and persue a wonderful relationship. Its hard to sum up here, but there are some wonderful scenes. at one point, while he's being operated on for some kind of tumor, his soul is actually at a tribunal in Heaven, pleading for them to spare his life, and the angel goes down to earth and retrieves a teardrop from the girl's eye as proof that love exists and that he should be allowed to live his life out with his newfound lover...I cry ever time I see this movie. Steve Sondheim - please musicalize it!
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#22re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:11amHmmmm...methinks Kander and Ebb must be fans of that flick...
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#23re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:16amits a similar story - but much better in the writing department - even the newer version with Warren Beatty (Heaven Can Wait) would be good if musicalized properly.
"I don't really get the ending,all i can go with is when after several months,Judith saw Pat sang,and later she kissed him on the toilet,after that the story back to where Pat went down from the stage after he'd sung,and he went to the italian lady.I just don't get it,what Judith exatcly meant when he kissed Pat that she had seen,and did Pat end up together with The Italian Lady?Please help me,thank u very much!"
Quote from someone on IMDB in reference to a movie he/she didn't understand. Such grammar!
#24re: Who has good technique?
Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:18am
had to post to this one.....Kristen Chenowith has a GREAT technique...when she is singing legit....dont like her belt. Audra's tech is very good too.
Best belt technique I think I have ever heard is Flo Lacey's.
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