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From: Karen Mercedes
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Subject: Re: musical theatre fachs - Longish
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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.

KM
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