I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
I'm impressed, who would have known? She is a doll.
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&.
"Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."
I told you so. She is a very talented young woman. I hope she considers doing more musical theater - hopefully in her natural alto range. With some experience, she could carry a show (and, uh, she has this boyfriend any producer would kill his kin to rope onto Broadway....).
The keys were transposed down for Ms. Biel so she could sing the songs. She should not have been cast in the first place if she cannot sing in the original keys. The role is that of a lyric soprano and Biel simply cannot sing that high.
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
How does lowering the key to a song make it impressive?
She should try singing it the way it was written.
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I can't find "Follow the Fold" on the site--considering her high notes in "I'll Know," I can't imagine it was pretty.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Wow thanks for all the link! Lots of great related vids. Have to say I much prefer ... whatshername who played her in the recent revival to Jessica. But cool! :P
BroadwayBaby6, as I suspected, you're completely wrong about the keys. I just compared Bigley on the original cast album, de Guzman in the '92 revival, and Biel. Bigley sang "Bell" in D, de Guzman and Biel sing it in Eb. Bigley and de Guzman sang "I'll Know" in G, Biel sings it in A.
Biel's keys are as high or higher than her predecessors'. Why make totally false statements without checking them out first? Took me about 3 minutes to compare those clips against the 30-second previews on iTunes.
To me, it wouldn't matter if Barbara Cook in her ingenue prime was playing Sarah - the key on "I'll Know" sounds unnaturally high. It's too "operatic" for such a jazzy show. It may have sounded fine in 1950, but audience's ears have changed.
And, no, don't lower it! There are so few MT songs nowadays that rest in a comfortable key for a high soprano. The only really difficult part of the song is, like I said, that A5 at the end.
Jimmy, what are you doing here in the middle of the night? It's almost 9 PM!