Who has the perfect pure voice ?- Page 5

[caitlinette]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#100

Posted: 5/4/08 at 12:46am

I did a quick tally. Top 5 so far:

1. Lea Salonga
2. Julie Andrews
3. Barbara Cook
4. Liz Callaway
5. Brian Stokes Mitchell and Anthony Warlow

[stage_door76]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#101

Posted: 5/4/08 at 10:00am

Lea Salonga gets my vote...


but my ultimate female is Tina Arena. Her voice is like a BELL - her recording of whistle down the wind is actually breathtaking in my opinion.

"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."

[*brina-doll*]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#102

Posted: 5/4/08 at 10:05am

I LOVE Tina Arena! Her cover of 'Don't Cry for Me...' is divine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx9f11m0zgc

Your aspirations are your possibilities-Samuel Johnson (and a little help from nomdeplume)

[stage_door76]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#103

Posted: 5/4/08 at 9:28pm

Simply brilliant video - her voice is truly divine!

Her bell-like ping pours out of her body with such powerful, yet gentle ease. PURITY!


But for me it is this video that takes the cake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZdyBHfL7ac

Minus the angry face at the beginning.

"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending. The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."

[Corine2]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#104

Posted: 5/5/08 at 8:48am

1- Paulo Szot
2- Brent Barrett
The three Tenors.

[JJC]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#105

Posted: 5/11/08 at 5:56pm

Barbara Cook
Brent Barret
David Carrol
Rebecca Luker
Judy Kaye
Maureen McGovern

[roquat]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#106

Posted: 5/11/08 at 8:06pm

Hasn't anyone listened to the cast recording of FLOYD COLLINS? Teresa McCarthy's voice is pure and heavenly on it.

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."

[masb19872]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#107

Posted: 5/11/08 at 8:16pm

John Barrowman and Lea Salonga, for me.

[into_the_woods2]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#108

Posted: 5/11/08 at 8:31pm

i would totally say lea salonga for the females

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[Barnaby151]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#109

Posted: 5/11/08 at 9:11pm

Lea Salonga
Matt Morrison
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Anthony Warlow
Connie Fisher's voice is really pure
Nikki Renee Daniels

[LittlexFallxOfxRain]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#110

Posted: 5/11/08 at 11:32pm

Lea Salonga.

[fanpires]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#111

Posted: 7/19/08 at 10:46pm

Lea Salonga
Audra McDonald
Kelli O'Hara

[pants2]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#112

Posted: 7/20/08 at 12:12am

Lea Michele or Andrea McArdle.

Can, can I have it?

[tazber]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#113

Posted: 7/20/08 at 12:29am

Harvey Firestein, hands down.

....but the world goes 'round

[SteamHeat2]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#114

Posted: 7/20/08 at 12:38am

Kelli OHara, Julie Andrews, Audra, Matt Morrison, and Lea Salonga come closest for me. But Seattle's Louis Hobson has a gorgeous pure voice.

[coryografer]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#115

Posted: 7/20/08 at 1:02am

I have to get my two cents in here........ two enthralling voices come to mind... both in the National Tour of Piazza. Elena Shaddow and David Burnham. Those are the first two that came to mind when I read the title of this thread. You have named many of the well known singers, but these two REALLY impressed me.

[ko74612]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#116

Posted: 7/20/08 at 4:09am

dare I say Kristin Chenoweth? :)

To be honest I'm not entirely sure why she hasn't already been mentioned. In terms of technique and sound I'd say she's one of the best, and her uniqueness shouldn't be discounted either.

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[COOOOLkid]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#117

Posted: 7/20/08 at 4:41am

Roger Bart (maybe not so anymore...)

But his "Go the Distance" in Hercules movie is brilliant!

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[MuseOfComedy]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#118

Posted: 7/20/08 at 4:55am

Lea Salonga, and Cheyenne Jackson.

[brochatkid]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#119

Posted: 7/20/08 at 7:28am

Women-Lea Salonga hands down.

Men-Paolo Szot, Michael Ball

[Hest882]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#120

Posted: 7/20/08 at 6:53pm

Hm, there are many voices I adore that I don't think of as "pure." To me, the ideal pure, clear, bell-like tone is that of a boy soprano's, so by that criterion it's Lea Salonga or Barbara Cook. To me, someone like Audra or Barbra Streisand or Julie Andrews has a somewhat warm tone that does quite fit. Also, because of that, I don't think any Broadway male tenor has a "perfect, pure" voice.

[brandontwin2]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#121

Posted: 7/20/08 at 7:12pm

Lucy Scherer
Annaleigh Ashford
Lisa Brescia
Katie Rose Clarke
Audra McDonald

Updated On: 7/20/08 at 07:12 PM

[musicaltheater1]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#122

Posted: 7/20/08 at 11:49pm

I'll add Patrick Wilson and Cheyenne Jackson on the male category.

"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

[BroadwayBound062]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#123

Posted: 7/21/08 at 12:26am

Liz Callaway

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

[levitatingcow11]

re: Who has the perfect, pure voice?#124

Posted: 7/21/08 at 2:12am

As far as clean sound goes, I have to agree and say Harvey Firestein.

Also for real as far as female voices:
Sherie Renee Scott
Laura Benanti
Sara Ramirez
Lea Michele
Kelli O'Hara
Lea Salogna

...especially in specific songs.



Updated On: 7/21/08 at 02:12 AM