| From: Karen Mercedes To: VOCALIST <vocalist> Subject: Re: musical theatre fachs - Longish Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Kylie Purcell wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 LMorgan923-at-aol.com wrote: > > Actually I have the opposite problem - finding musical pieces that sit > high enough! > I love Ragtime, Jekyll and Hyde etc but I couldn't do them justice in a > pink fit! Is there anything that people could reccomend for > a colouratura sop aside from Mabel or Phantom?
Sondheim: Green finch and linnet bird (Sweeney Todd)
Noel Coward: I'll follow my secret heart (Conversation Piece)
Coward: Zigeuner (Bitter Sweet)
Friml: In my gondola, love, let us glide...For I adore, I adore you Giannina mia! (The Firefly)
Schoenberg: I saw him once...In my life (Les Miserables)
Willson: My White Knights (The Music Man)
Ivor Novello: When the Gypsy Played (Glamorous Night)
Novello: Someday my heart will awake; The violin began to play (King's Rhapsody)
Novello: Love is my reason for living; We'll gather lilacs (Perchance to Dream
Novello: Waltz of my heart; I can give you starlight (The Dancing Years)
Novello: Music in May (Careless Rapture)
Novello: Finder, please return; On such a night as this (Gay's the Word)
Lionel Monckton: The Pipes of Pan; Arcady is ever young; My heart flies homing (The Arcadians)
Monckton: Moonstruck (Our Miss Gibbs)
Ron Grainer: Woman and Man (Robert and Elizabeth)
Edward German: Who shall say that love is cruel? (wonderful coloratura cadenza at the end) (Merrie England)
Bernstein: Glitter and be Gay (Candide)
Herbert: Art is Calling Me (I want to be a prima-donna) (The Enchantress)
Herbert: Italian Street Song (Naughty Marietta)
Herbert: If I were on the stage (Kiss me again) (Mademoiselle Modiste)
Romberg: One Kiss (The New Moon)
Romberg: Romance (The Desert Song)
Sullivan: Sorry her lot; The hours creep on a-pace (H.M.S. Pinafore)
Sullivan: If somebody there chanced to be (Ruddigore)
Sullivan: The sun whose rays (The Mikado)
Wright/Forrest: Baubles, bangles, and beads; This is My Beloved (Kismet)
Wright/Forrest: Now (Song of Norway)
Jerry Herman: Nelson (A Day in Hollywood) - a hilarious Jeanette MacDonald parody
Cy Coleman: Love makes such fools of us all (Barnum)
Cy Coleman: Veronique; Babette; Indian Maiden's Lament (On the Twentieth Century)
Admittedly, some of the above are from operettas. But then, so is the role of Mabel, which you referred to.
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