best divas/best belting!!

#1

best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:23pm

i am one whom is in LOVE with female singers who can SING...and who can BELT!!!!....what songs from shows are your alltime FAVORITES for goosebump-hair raising showtune numbers?!.....

im so curious!

maybe ill hear something new!!!

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#2

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:25pm

All-Time Favorite Diva/Belting goosebump Inducing song?

Easy. "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going"

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#3

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:25pm

"Bless the Lord" from the 2000 Off-Broadway production of Godspell. Shoshana Bean can totally rock the house.

#4

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:26pm

stick to priest, where is that song from?!

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Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy that must be found and captured! Believe nothing she says. She's evil. Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys! Her green skin is but an outward manifestation of her twisted nature! This distortion, this repulsion, this - - Wicked Witch!

#5

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:27pm

Any song sung by Ethel Merman

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#6

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:27pm

DREAMGIRLS.

And I'd start running before the mob comes.

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"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#7

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:27pm

my favorite belter is eden. she rocks!

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#8

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:28pm

Jennifer Holliday
Judy Kuhn
Sutton Foster

I think Gimme, Gimme is my favorite belting number of all time!

#9

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:30pm

yes eden is great....there are so many great ones, i mean like the ending of wizard and i [wicked] in his eyes [jeykll and hyde] finale ultimo (dont feed the plants [little shop]....SO MANY...lets hear it guys....you know you have some good songs out there!!!!!

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Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy that must be found and captured! Believe nothing she says. She's evil. Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys! Her green skin is but an outward manifestation of her twisted nature! This distortion, this repulsion, this - - Wicked Witch!

#10

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:30pm

LadyG, I love you and your taste in music.

#11

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:30pm

I'm with StickToPriest as well....when Jennifer performed it at the Leading Ladies concert, she blew every other woman there away--and she was among the BEST...

#12

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:39pm

anything sung by patti lupone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

#13

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:39pm

I always get chills hearing LuPone knock Rainbow High outta the ballpark:

I'm....their....SAVIOR that's what they call me!

#14

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:41pm

"LadyG, I love you and your taste in music. "

You flatta' me, Delphine. And I'd say the same for you but I'd look like I'm brown nosing, which I'm totally not.

Besides the fact that Delphine rocks...er...

Stephanie Block from the Boy from Oz, I'd love to hear her with different material- I'm sure that she could totally bat anything out of the park! (I have weird phrases when it comes to belting.)

#15

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:41pm

but which songs by these singers get you so RILED UP!

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Citizens of Oz, there is an enemy that must be found and captured! Believe nothing she says. She's evil. Responsible for the mutilation of these poor, innocent monkeys! Her green skin is but an outward manifestation of her twisted nature! This distortion, this repulsion, this - - Wicked Witch!

#16

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:46pm

for me eden's rendition of defying gravity blows me away. every time i listen to it i get chills.

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"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

#17

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:48pm

Stephanie did a great job with Defying Gravity.

#18

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:49pm

Lisa Brescia as Amneris in Aida in "Every Story is a Love Story" hands down!

#19

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:50pm

i wish that i could hear her sing that.

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"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions." ~The one and only John Lennon

#20

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 10:55pm

"The Life of the Party" as sung by Idina Menzel is mindblowing

I love "Gimme, Gimme." The way it slowly builds is great.

#21

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:50pm

Tonya Pinkins in "Caroline or Change"
The number "lots wife" had been hyped SO much before I heard it that I didn't think it could possibly live up to it's estatic praise...but it did, and suprassed it.
Tonya's belt halfway though the song (During "Slam that iron...FLAT.") dropped my jaw a good five feet. Damn, girl.

#22

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:53pm

I don't have a favorite but one of the best ones is "Defying Gravity"

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#23

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:57pm

Linda Eder can blow anyone away with her voice! Including our other favorites!

#24

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:58pm

I've always been partial to Patti Lupone's "Buenos Aires".

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#25

re: best divas/best belting!!

Posted: 9/1/04 at 11:59pm

I have to second "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going". Wow.

Also Heather Headley's "Easy As Life".

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