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#26

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:22am

Plot Summary for
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.

"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!

#27

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:25am

Wait - and that's a different movie from the first one you described? How many ARE there?

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#28

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:28am

no - just a more concise summary from IMDB...Heaven Can Wait is a bit different but still based on the same themes. Heaven Can Wait is much more of a comedy also - Stairway to Heaven is darker (which is why I think Sondheim would be the perfect composer)

#29

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:33am

So there are three films, correct?

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#30

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:39am

actually - I wasn't thinking that - but yes - I think so - there was an earlier version of Heaven Can Wait called "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"...still - they're all very similar films. Now do I have you completely disoriented?LOL!....

#31

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:44am

Completely. But Steel Pier still sucked.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#32

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:47am

OK - I get your drift...LOL...have some more coffee...PLEASE...LOL....

#33

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:48am

Getting back to tecnique...I must say Heather Headley. She can take any song and make it sound totally different than any other version you ever heard.

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:50am

yeah.. Heather belted out a MEAN "Home" from The Wiz.

Michael Arden has pretty damn good technique as well.... and he was belting a mere two feet from my face, nose to nose,when his mic cut out for a minute during Bare, so I should know.. no amplification and electronic nonsense.. just 100% Mikey

#35

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:54am

Ziemba's mic cut out during Never Gonna Dance one night - and in a Broadway house, no less - she continued to sing, and not one person had trouble hearing her.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#36

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 10:56am

Good for Ziemba!

#37

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 11:20am

Just for the record, Carolee Carmello has no technique.

No...that's not fair. What I mean to say is that Ms. Carmello has stated herself that she has not trained as a singer and everything she does is God's gift to her.

"I'm so looking forward to a time when all the Reagan Democrats are dead."

#38

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:44pm

Robbiej - well God gave her a helluva gift - I think she is a goddess!

#39

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:50pm

Sutton Foster

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#40

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 12:57pm

I'd like to join the "Carolee Kicks Bootie" camp. Because Carolee kicks bootie.
Also, Brian d'Arcy James, Julia Murney, and another one of those "no training yet gifted" people, Linda Eder. For "Man of La Mancha" alone which is freaking amazing, Linda Eder.

#41

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 1:01pm

Great post DD. I can't believe I forgot Christianne!

#42

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 1:02pm

I'm joining the Noll lovefest.

Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#43

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 1:05pm

I am REALLY upset that I negleted to mention her because I was listening to Jekyll and Hyde just this morning

#44

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 7:19pm

Joining in the Christiane Noll train - LOVE HER! I mean, simply LOVE HER! What a pristine example!

Also, I love Kristin Chenowith's versatility - she's legit, she belts, she mixes! She has several different sounds that are all her!

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#45

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 7:24pm

i agree with everyone. i'm just going to add idina and eden to that list. i'm not be biased or anything, i think that it takes amazing technique to belt those high notes and they both have that technique. oh! kerry butler as well.

i have a question for broadwayguy2: where can i get the cast recording of the wizard of oz with jess?

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#46

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 8:00pm

that's true. many of my favorite musical vocalists claim never to have had serious vocal training before making it big. Carolee is one. So are Brian Stokes Mitchell, Michael Ball, and Philip Quast. You wanna talk perfectly trained technique- look no further than the Warlow.

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#47

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:15pm

Anthony Warlow

#48

re: Who has good technique?

Posted: 7/13/04 at 9:19pm

I'll have to agree with Carolee, Sutton, and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

Also Patrick Wilson. His technique is simply gorgeous!

Updated On: 7/13/04 at 09:19 PM

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