From: Kylie Purcell
To: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Subject: Re: musical theatre fachs - Longish
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 LMorgan923-at-aol.com wrote:

> Fach just isn't as much of a concept in musical theatre as physical type
> is. Although I can sing all but a couple of soprano musical theatre roles
> (no Marias or Marians for me, thank you), nobody's going to hire a large 44
> year old woman to play a romantic lead. So bring on all those Rodgers and
> Hammerstein matronly mezzo roles!

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?

I'll be doing a recital and it will be recorded onto Cd by one
of local classical music stations here and I want to present
a good mix of opera, operetta and musicals but I'm a little ignorant
on the musical repetoire so any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kylie