Tags
Bennet Fisher, Dawn French, Devil of a Time, exercise, Fat Lady in Portrait, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, In For a Penny, independent theatre, indie theatre, Javert, Kai Morrison, Les Miserables, musical, musical theatre, Russell Crowe, San Francisco Theater Pub, Sara E. Breindel, SF Theater Pub, shattering glass with voice, verisimilitude, vocal exercise, vocal technique, vocal warm-up
In which Yours Truly stumbles into being cast in a musical and contemplates the voice as a muscle all its own.
Charles Lewis III, not over yet.
“Quien canta, sus males espanta. (He who sings frightens away his ills.)”
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
I was recently cast in a musical. This surprised me more than anyone else.
Not because I have anything against musicals – quite the contrary, I love them. That’s why I audition for them so often. But since there isn’t a great demand for baritones, I’m the least likely to be cast – especially not in a lead. (Someday, Sweeney. Someday…) No, this is a world that values an off-key, near-castrato Timberlake over a deeply resonant Vandross.
But that hasn’t stopped me from trying. In fact, I was nearly cast in one several years ago, but I declined the role. The last time I performed in a proper musical was, incidentally, the first-ever Theater Pub musical: 2011’s Devil of a Time. Earlier that same year…
View original post 902 more words
