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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Sun Feb 25, 2001  3:42 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] The Fantasticks


Rita Gardner, who created the role of Luisa Off-Broadway, was an Anna
Maria Alberghetti type with a slightly less "legit" style (though
certainly the same vocal abilities, to my ear). The role is typical
Broadway light belt-with-legit-overtones ingenue. The same singer could,
I imagine, manage Lili in CARNIVAL, Lizzie in 110 IN THE SHADE (also
by Jones and Schmidt), and Anne in A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC - and if
more legit-leaning, Johanna in SWEENEY TODD, Christine in PHANTOM, and
Cosette in LES MIS.

KM
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