Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
RockyRoad
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#1Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/13/16 at 6:24pm
Just found this video of Stockard singing a song from her time in the show. I've never heard her "sing" and always wondered what kind of quality she has/had.
And Ethel Merman sat and watched.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abpi2_HU1aU
Ranger Tom
Leading Actor Joined: 7/6/14
#2Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/13/16 at 6:57pm
Maybe she's available to play Grizabella.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#3Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/13/16 at 7:13pm
I've never heard her "sing" and always wondered what kind of quality she has/had.
Seriously? You never watched her in the now-iconic 1978 film adaptation of the Broadway musical GREASE where she sings both "Look At Me, I'm Sandra Dee" and the almighty "There Are Worst Things I Could Do"?!!!
#4Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/13/16 at 11:32pm
Wow! The OP has never heard Stockard sing?!?!?! She was in a little film called GREASE. She sings in it. Color me WTF!
#5Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 2:34am
Her voice was weak and she could barely sustain a note. I'm sure Ethel was cringing.
RockyRoad
Leading Actor Joined: 9/4/04
#6Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 2:52am
To BroadyFossee and Carlos Alberto:
Dearest Children,
Saying that Stockard was "singing" in "Grease" is an insult to the word "singing."
Any role that is performed by Rosie O'Donnell is not a "singing" role.
And nsguy45: You are so right. Apparently nasal was the belting technique in 1980. But she must have acted the hell out of the role. Ethel must have been wondering what happened to the good old days of Broadway.
#7Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 3:12am
Stockard Channing did fine in Grease.
My favorite Stockard singing moment is hands down her layered performance as a Swedish maid in a muppet christmas special. A woman with a heavy Swedish accent that all but disappears everytime she opens her mouth to sing...
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#8Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 5:03pm
Actually I thought Stockard did a fine job in the Roundabout revival of PAL JOEY a decade ago. (OK, just checked-- it was 2008.) Not a gorgeous instrument per se, but her legit pipes and her flawless acting still made the part pop.
BroadwayConcierge
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/24/15
#9Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 5:32pm
I think Stockard Channing is one of our finest actresses. I want her back on Broadway, please!
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#10Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 6:05pm
Did anyone here see Stockard in THE RINK?
#11Stockard Channing Sings They're Playing Our Song
Posted: 5/14/16 at 11:29pm
Stockard would (and may still) have made a great Joanne in Company.
