| re: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday | |
| Last Edit: PlayWiz 05:29 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
| Posted by: PlayWiz 05:24 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
| In reply to: re: Kiss Me, Kate and The Band’s Visit Yesterday - Chromolume 04:15 pm EST 02/18/19 | |
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| It's not too much of a stylistic adjustment for audiences to hear a legit baritone voice as opposed to a baritenor, especially if that was how the role was written. I mean for sopranos, they even transposed DOWN Kristin Chenoweth's Marian in "The Music Man" on tv, I guess for fear that audiences are scared of the high notes of a soprano. If people would cast these things properly and in the right keys, they'd be more authentic to the style in which they were written. Chase sounded more to me like a tenor in the things I've seen him in, though it's possible this suits him fine. I forget who they cast in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" at Encores, but it was someone more of a tenor, possibly Jason Danieley who is usually very fine in tenor roles, which made the main character's baritone tessitura songs not come across as strongly as they should. John Raitt was a real baritenor (with more of a tenor's placement), but Alfred Drake, Gordon MacRae, and others were much more baritone, with Howard Keel more bass-baritone. Casting someone whose tessitura is higher robs a lot of these Golden Age musicals of some gravitas, machismo and force in these roles, for the most part. | |
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