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Who has the perfect pure voice ?
BDavis0092
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/06
#50re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:38pmBrian Stokes Mitchell is definantly one of my favorites.
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#51re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 4/30/08 at 10:51pm
Jennifer Holliday? She has one of the un-purest voices, for me.
As far as flawless purity goes, Christine Ebersole and Laura Benanti immediately came to mind.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#52re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 4/30/08 at 11:07pmI thought including Janis Joplin might tip people off to my sarcasm. I guess I failed.
Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.
#53re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 4/30/08 at 11:32pmI immediately thought of Sutton Foster.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
#54re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 4/30/08 at 11:33pmLauren Pritchard.
"Y'know, I think Bertolt Brecht was rolling in his grave."
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
-Nellie McKay on the 2006 Broadway production of The Threepenny Opera, in which she played Polly Peachum
prof22
Swing Joined: 4/10/07
#57re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:28am
Barbara Cook for females.
Jason Danieley for males.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#58re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:40am
In the theatre world, I'd say Liz Callaway, Lauren Ward (VIOLET), Andrea Burns (SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD) and Teresa McCarthy (FLOYD COLLINS). Jason Workman and Jason Danieley for males.
In the pop world--Alison Krause.
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
#59re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:41am
Barbara Cook
Audra McDonald are my girls
John Barrowman for men
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#60re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 12:55amJonathan Groff
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
JaredBway
Featured Actor Joined: 7/30/05
#61re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 1:09am
Lauren Pritchard
Andrea Burns
Megan Hilty
Ashley Brown
suprisingly Tamyra Grey
#62re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 1:12amLIZ CALLAWAY
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KrissySim
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/10/08
#63re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 1:16am
Perfect and pure can be two different things...lemmeesee...
Marni Nixon
and you can't escape Julie Andrews.
Irene Dunne
Louanne Hogan
but I also have to agree with Borstalboy who listed Billie Holliday and Lotte Lenya.
... and... someone no one has yet mentioned on this thread: Marilyn Monroe (when she wasn't purposely singing badly)
pc1145N2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/28/07
#64re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 1:37am
Julie Andrews is the definition of a perfect pure voice, in my opinion.
Also, Sutton Foster.
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#66re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 3:26am
I guess when I think of "pure" I just imagine this sort of clear, light technically-perfect sound. I just can't picture Lenya in that group. As perfect and ideal as her singing was, I always think of her as a performer. The most impressive part about her singing was not her "pure" voice but the intense emotions she added to the songs she performed.
Barbara Cook just can't be matched. Listen to her "Glitter and Be Gay" and you'll see how no one, NO ONE, has been able to sing that song with such perfection.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#67re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 4:14am
Julie Andrews
Sandi Patti
Lea Salonga
#68re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 4:26amIf you're looking for perfection in a voice, Karen Carpenter. Check out her version of Don't Cry For Me Argentina.
The great thing with human brains is they're fanless, nice and quiet although I'm sure mine whistles a bit sometimes.
#69re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 4:52am
An abundance of singers from the past had what could be called pure exceptional voices. Among the women: Alice Faye, Marni Nixon, Doris Day, Shirley Jones, Julie Andrews, Marilyn McCoo, Dolores Gray, Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline, Louanne Hogan, Mitzi Gaynor, Anita Ellis & Petula Clark.
Among the Men:
Gordon MacRae, Howard Keel, John Raitt, Ezio Pinza, Jussi Bjorling, Bill Lee, James Taylor, Larry Kert, Jack Jones, Nelson Eddy & Lauritz Melchior.
Today, with the exception of the operatic stage, such voices are far and few, mainly because today's over-miked musical theatre productions do not require or encourage great singing. But despite this there are some truly exceptional voices today that compare favorably with the above. Among the women, Stephanie J. Block, Faith Prince, Christine Andreas, Audra McDonald, Renée Fleming & certainly Barbara Cook, who actually overlaps from the past.
Among the men: Brent Barrett, John Barrowman, Hugh Jackman, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson and James Anest.
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#70re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 6:21am
Liz Callaway
and Brian Stokes Mitchell
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JohnBoy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/21/06
#71re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 7:19amIf you'r taling ever, it's Julie Andrews. Right now, Lea Salonga.
#72re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 8:01am
maybe it's just me, but I don't really think of "pure" as being very subjective. I agree with what Ray said, that it's a clear, light tone. like a boy soprano. so as much as I love someone like Patti LuPone, who was suggested earlier in this thread, I don't see how someone could categorize her voice as "pure".
that being said, I think of Rebecca Luker and Laura Benanti for pure voices.
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-Kad
#73re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 9:40am
Michael Ball
Lea Salonga
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philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#74re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?
Posted: 5/1/08 at 10:40am
Audra McDonald
Barbara Cook (in her heyday, but pretty samn good now)
Josh Groban
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