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Do we need a musical theatre style coach?
Mandark
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The operatic contestants aren't getting a look-in in this show. Even Tom isn't interested. But they have good voices and deserve some help to success.
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Blimey! Where me pension book and me bus pass!
That only half works, cause no one has a pension book anymore. They have been paying into the bank for years.
(And within the next 3 months no-one will have giro-cheques either.)
No I am not po-faced.
Maybe a member of The Wanted or One Direction?
Nobody (as far as I can remember) performed a musical theatre song in the televised auditions. Perhaps that's why the Musical Theatre singers struggled, because they were performing material that was outside their comfort zone. There was only one person who performed an operatic aria and she was a teenage girl who sounded very raw and untrained.
I do think that, whilst it would be interesting to see a Musical Theatre judge on the show, it does seem that that the idea of The Voice is to find a viable recording artist in the pop/rock genre. Not Musical Theatre/Classical/Opera.
I wish you'd tell that to Leeds Box Office when I rang to get a ticket for Phantom of the Opera a week or two back. They were selling like hot cakes. Half an hour after the box office opened I couldn't get any nearer than row S! :rolleyes:
And, haven't you heard? The West End musical theatre is going great guns. I think it might be you that is out of touch?
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If they tried to listen just to the voice and not be pressured by other issues I don't see why opera or rock singers wouldn't have had more of a chance.
That's not the point though. Musical theatre is half acting! Different animal.
Kerry wasn't very good, she was pitchy and a bit shouty. I think she was trying too hard. I think the judges decision not to press the buzzer had more to do with that than anything to do with her being from theater since they didn't know that until after anyway.
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How would a musical theatre coach help a musical theatre contestant in pop music? Surely only a pop music coach could help a musical theatre act?
Sounds like you want to push the boundaries so far it becomes a whole new show.
Not really, her audition was not good, simple as, doesn't matter what her track record was, her audition wasn't good. Same with the long haired chap who sang Bon Jovi and was from a musical theatre backgrond, obviously has a voice, but gave a dated, cliched performance that sounded like a tribute act. The bloke who sang Tom Jones sounded like Sir Harry Secombe.
Interestingly Max Milner also has a musical theatre background, but sounded contemporary, and sailed through.
I didn't get that either.