Wicked London Video

Wow...last note is ROUGH.

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That girl has damaged her voice doing that show. Why anyone would ever want to come back to it, who has any common sense about their instrument, is beyond me. Proper vocal health, people - proper vocal health. lol

That video doesn't do her justice, I know Defying Gravity is Wicked's flag ship song but her No Good Deed is utterly fantastic.

Helen's brilliant too, very different to most other Glindas...less cartoony. Unfortunetly it's a bit of a 'Look we've got Idina' show reel so now real veiw of her.

Don't judge her on that - the times I've seen her the note's been perfect and not forced. And remember she's doing it for 4 months, not 18 like last time.

I love how people pass voice-performance judgements on a crappy streaming video audio. Because really, that makes SO much sense.

PS I believe we should listen to the people that have actually seen the show live to find out whether Idina's voice is in hape or not.

Anyone else getting that like random clicking sound thing. I;ve tried all 3 bandwiths and it does it...

I think the sound quality pretty much sucks for the entire video- so it could not be her, just the transfer between the mediums... sometimes, performances that sound good live really just don't translate to video, or audio recording or whatever.

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Thank you for sharing this video Idina is/was/always will be Elphie. She looks and sounds even better than ever. I should have known people would get on her case. There are some cruel, rude people on this board.

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Thank you, swerve

And for the other two or three people on this board besides me who cares anything about WICKED and Idina, I have heard two other *extremely* recent DGs of hers from across the pond. EXCELLENT. All I can say she is in fine form and sounding better than ever! Elphaba lives!

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^exactly! the intensity she has is INSANE! :)

and really, to me, her voice sounds VERY healthy and wonderful!

the thing I absolutely LOVE about idina is that she lets the ACTING of every song carry the singing through, and not the other way around. For example, when sho sang, she sounded great, but she just did WAY too much with the song for the context of the show. If she was doing a radio-friendly version of DG or something, I'd think it was amazing, but the key in the SHOW is that that song already has so much going for it, and so much going on, that you really have to keep it simple with the singing. ANd that's just what idina does. She sings it, and hits the notes effortlessly, while at the same time not going riff crazy and trying to make it all showy. She lets the intensity of the moment, and the intensity of her emotions, carry the song, and imo it is PERFECT. That I've seen, no one else has ever been able to achieve that :)

wow, sorry, long ramble. haha

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um, she's not "sing"ing, she is SINGing

seriously, she's been taking voice lessons all her life. Her STYLE may not suit everyone, and thats totally fine, everyone has their own opinion of what sounds pretty, but to say she's not singing PROPERLY is just plain silly. She's said it herself- she's very anal about her voice, and tries to avoid harming it in every way possible (and no, that doesn't mean it doesnt ever get tired out. after going a year and a half non-stop in wicked, yeah, I'm sure her voice was a little bit tired. But that still doesnt mean she wasnt using good technique)

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Updated On: 9/27/06 at 12:37 AM

The bits from No Good Deed looked intense. Other than that, the video is pretty mediocre... One Short Day is boring and Defying Gravity is overplayed.