irritating voices- Page 12

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 4:46pm

Who has a beautiful voice in your opinion, Plum? I'm just curious what your version of beauty is.

My Best Friend (not at all into musical theater) really doesn't like Audra's voice. She says it's annoying.

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 4:54pm

Plum: lol you don't like Shirley Jones' voice either? Why does it make you want to break things. Granted, I think he acting sucked in that movie, but I thought her voice was gorgeous. Do you like any soprano-sopranos (meaning not pretty much belting and then just switching for a particular high note)? Not being sarcastic, just curious.

I don't really think of the OBC Laurie as a soprano...I mean she can sing the higher notes, but I think she's more of a alto-y maybe mezzo, she doesn't seem that comfortable high, and she sort of swoops on the notes.


OOoh, and other voices I'm annoyed by: Mary Martin.

[Feodor Sverdlov]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 4:55pm

I can't bear Chirstine Andreas voice. What she did in the Scarlet pimpernel, it really hurt.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 4:56pm

I can hear the angry typing of hate mail now BUT-

Adam Pascal's voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. And I listened to his latest cd at a Virgin listening station and just laughed and laughed.

Also, I find Anthony Rapp completely unremarkable in pretty much every artisic way, and his voice makes me cringe.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 4/19/05 at 5:02pm

Hee hee...dare I say it? Katie Holmes. :)

Posted: 4/19/05 at 5:03pm

Darius De Haas- AWFUL vibrato

[sallyfan101]

Posted: 4/26/05 at 12:37pm

Jeninfer Cody
I have no clu why it just is.

[hrh_annette]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 12:06am

Ok, I know she's an institution but I can only take small doses of Carol Channing...very small doses...taken with a lot of tequila.

Oh, and Ann Rieking on the Chicago cd...is she channeling Gwen Verdon. A friend and I have a good parts version of Chicago that we play that is almost Ann free.

And also that little girl on the Will Rogers Follies cd. "I'm Mary Rogers" It's gonna take another margarita to get her voice outta my head now.

[justthefacts]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 12:42am

On the subject of vibratos, how do you get rid of one? Any tips? Is it really hopeless?

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 4:28am

"Michael Crawford,
broadway's greatest singer.
What a voice!
I never hit a zinger"


Gotta love the forbidden bway.

[jollipops]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 8:58am

whoever that woman playing Eve on the OBC of 'Children of Eden' was, ugh...

[boatsintheghetto]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 9:52am

i know everyone is gonna kill me for this but harvey feirstien. When i first herad him it was on the Hairspray cast recording and I thot it was just cuz he was trying to be a woman, but then i heard him in Fiddler and realized he always sunds like that.

[Imchristine4real]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 9:57am

I've only listened to the "Highlights" of Children of Eden but I didn't like that Eve. Was it Stephine Mills?

[jollipops]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 10:09am

not sure but i don't know how she got a lead broadway part, very broken voice...

[cathyhyatt]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 1:09pm

someone said charlotte church was awful and i just...just wanna kill themmm ahhh.

[darren has a big butt]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 1:11pm

huuuuuuuh i love michael crawford!

[phantom_tenor]

Posted: 4/27/05 at 10:06pm

i don't

odd for a phantom fan, i know.

[fanpires]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 10:51pm

Celia Keenan-Bolger - ewwwwww.
Marissa Jaret Winouker - ruined Hairspray for me.
Ethel Merman - can't stand her.
Bernadette Peters
Michael Crawford - Who in the heck told someone he can sing?
Laura Benanti - AT TIMES. Her vibrato can be a bit annoying.
Patti LuPuke
Updated On: 6/29/08 at 10:51 PM

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 10:58pm

Ethel Merman was a brilliant actress, possibly the best Broadway's ever seen, but her voice is just a little annoying.

[philly03]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:00pm

"I can't bear Chirstine Andreas voice. What she did in the Scarlet pimpernel, it really hurt. "

I love Christine Andreas! You know that for The Scarlet Pimpernel she was "forced" to sing with a "French accent," correct? Except for like the beginning of Storybook on the OBC. Rachel York did the same, and Carolee Carmello & Amy Bodnar...tried the French accent from what I can remember. But who cares all of the actresses who played Marguerite I always thought were amazing!

For me, Daphne Rubin-Vega -- !!!!!!!!:?!
Steve Blanchard kind of always irritated me too.
EDIT: JULIA MURNEY too!
Updated On: 6/29/08 at 11:00 PM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:09pm

You do not want to get rid of vibrato! Vibrato is good and healthy.

Anyway:
Christine Andreas
Raul Esparza
Sarah Brightman
Idina Menzel
Mandy Patinkin

[Lovelylady17329]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:18pm

For me, no one beats Daphne Rubin-Vega

[buffyactsing]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:22pm

Wow that was three years ago. I actually like Mandy Patinkin...I wonder why I didn't like his voice at the time?

[Gary Indiana]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:22pm

I can't stand Daphne Rubin Vega's voice, especially on the Rent cd. Harvey Fierstein usually annoys me. I hated his voice in Fiddler, but I actually like it for Hairspray. I think it works better with that role. Matthew Broderick's voice can also be pretty annoying at times.

[dinglehopper89]

Posted: 6/29/08 at 11:25pm

I will go with Julia Murney. I saw her as Elphaba and it wasn't really irritating, but it annoyed me when she started belting higher notes. It sounded as if the tone of her voice got lower and she sung higher...if that makes sense.

As for Daphne, I will kinda disagree. I think her voice works with Mimi. Otherwise, ew ew ew.