Songs for a Tall Guy

[TheBootsThatAreKinky]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 1:45pm

Hey Guys, 

I'm very new to this sight and so I'm sorry if this post is in the wrong place. But I am a BFA Musical Theatre Student at The SEMO Holland School for Visual and Performing Arts. I have Class Voice, duh, and I need 8 songs to sing, and I have 7. I need a song that fits my type? I'm 6ft 4in and burly. I have found plenty of material that fits my range, but non of them are really my character type. I'm very new to the musical theatre world and I would like to ask for any suggestions? 

Thanks guys!

[tazber]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 1:52pm

TheBootsThatAreKinky said: "Hey Guys, 

 

I'm very new to this sight and so I'm sorry if this post is in the wrong place. But I am a BFA Musical Theatre Student at The SEMO Holland School for Visual and Performing Arts. I have Class Voice, duh, and I need 8 songs to sing, and I have 7. I need a song that fits my type? I'm 6ft 4in and burly. I have found plenty of material that fits my range, but non of them are really my character type. I'm very new to the musical theatre world and I would like to ask for any suggestions? 

 

Thanks guys!

 

"

What's your range?

[TheBootsThatAreKinky]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 1:59pm

I don't know the exact notes but I'm a Tenor with some lower register 

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 3:38pm

How about Joey, Joey, Joey from THE MOST HAPPY FELLA or Lonely Room from OKLAHOMA.   Joey and Judd are two very different types physically but they both are often envisioned as tall, burly guys.  And one of them might well suit the particular kind of 6'4" burly tenor with a lower register you happen to be.  Another possibility: They Call the Wind Maria from PAINT YOUR WAGON.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 10:04pm

henrik, my friend, what production of MOST HAPPY FELLA are you watching?

 

The entire plot depends on Joe being a total hunk (and a womanizer at that). It's Tony who is described and who describes himself as big and clumsy.

 

(I'm not assuming the OP is clumsy or unappealing; but it's one of my favorite shows and I've never seen a Joe who was "burly".)

 

Judd makes more sense to me.

Updated On: 2/8/16 at 10:04 PM

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 11:01pm

Gaveston, 6'4" and burly nec. equals big and clumsy?  Burly can well mean strapping, athletic, well built, no?

"bur·ly

?b?rl?/

adjective

adjective: burly; comparative adjective: burlier; superlative adjective: burliest

1. (of a person) large and strong; heavily built.

   synonyms:strapping, well built, sturdy, brawny, strong, muscular, muscly, thickset, blocky, big, hefty, bulky, stocky, stout, heavily built, Herculean;"

Every Joey I've ever seen was, as you just said, a hunk.  I once saw Cheyenne Jackson play Joey btw.  I would say that Cheyenne Jackson is burly in that he is a large, strapping, strong man.   In other words hunky.  in other words, burly, in a real sense of that word, if not the only sense thereof.

But having said that, and realizing that burly might well mean different things to different people, and that perhaps TheBoots might mean burly in a different kind of way, similar to your take on it, I mentioned two very different roles with two very different physical types that might thus qualify for the two different interpretations of "6'4 and burly."

Not only that, I said as much in my post.  It was precisely because I didn't find TheBoots self-description clear that I responded as I did.



 

Updated On: 2/9/16 at 11:01 PM

[sabrelady]

Posted: 2/8/16 at 11:52pm

Gaston from Beauty And the Beast?  Maybe Celie's Curse from Colour Purple? 

And if I was feeling cruel-  Soliloquy  from Carousel? 

 

 

[WhizzerMarvin]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 9:18am

You would have to alter the meaning of the song (and some pronouns too), but you could sing "When The Tall Man Talks" from Whoop-Up. It could turn into a attempt to woo someone in a humorous, somewhat ego-inflated way that I think someone with the right sense of timing could pull off. 

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 6:02pm

Gee, henrik, I'm sorry if I touched a nerve. Apparently, the original problem is that "burly" is such a vague word. Even the definition you provide cites antonyms ("muscular", "stout" as synonyms.

 

In my experience, "burly" is used to mean something closer to "husky", more "stout" than "muscular". It doesn't mean sloppy fat, but I don't think a hunk has been called "burly" since 1958, when men's swim suits still covered their navels.

 

I'll allow that your usage was technically correct, but since Judd is repulsive to women and Joe moves on when he's had his "fill of all the ladies in the neighborhood", they make a strange pair. Perhaps in addition to vocal range, we should have asked the OP how hot he is!

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 7:22pm

Gaveston, no worries!  You didn't touch a nerve although I can see why my response might have suggested umbrage.

Yes, I thought about asking TheBoots for more specific details about his body, but then thought better of that.   Instead I gave him two guys fitting quite different connotations of the description we were given and, accordingly, as you've correctly recognized, represent two quite different types.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 2/9/16 at 9:40pm

You, sir, are clever as well as kind.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 2/12/16 at 6:08am

What are the 7 songs you already have?  That might give us an idea of where you're headed.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 2/12/16 at 10:15pm

Not a Musical number (yet) but Short People comes to mind.