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re: .it's all well and good......

Posted by:	Chromolume 08:43 pm EDT 03/31/14
In reply to:	re: .it's all well and good...... - bobby2 08:24 pm EDT 03/31/14

If you are going to apply that reality to musicals why is Nellie Forbush a good singer? (she's a nurse)... ...who sings (literally, that is, as a character) in 2 songs - "Honey Bun" and the finale of "Dites-Moi." (Maybe 3 - since Emile later does a short rendition of "Wash That Man" it seems to reason that Nellie is actually singing that song as a character?) I suspect that Nellie (as opposed to the actress playing Nellie, who does need to sell the other major songs) might not be the greatest singer in the world, lol, though clearly she's confident enough to put over "Honey Bun" for the Thanksgiving show. It would actually be interesting to hear someone do the role where the actress could sing as well as we'd expect, but who would sound less polished in "Honey Bun" so that we could distinguish the diegetic performance from the "expression of high emotion" that is the language for erupting into song in the other numbers.

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