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She's the same.

@@s.c.paulson6797 Sarah Paulson is that you

She was on coke.

She's very Anne here, that's true. Which is especially funny considering how she originated Fantine in Les Mis and Anne portrayed the same character in the screen adaptation.

More like Anne acts like Patti... Considering Patti did it first.

Wow. So much.

truth pattis problem is she killed her voice triyng to over showboat on those jumps elaine suffered some vocal problems once in a great while during performing evita all actresses have but patti over did it and damaged her vocal chords several times. by the time patti got to australia she had a wonderful vocal coach there that taught her how to handle the score without ruining those amazing vocal chords.

Alvaro probably was.

Hamilzel Ripley yes i imagine, with all the work

LOL did you here the intro? She just got off stage!

@Alvaro .......shhhhhhhhhhh!

what about it?

dohaperson1 actually she said sunset bolivard was bad and Evita was the only good thing he wrote

She has always been on the record as saying Evita was hard .

Not true.

She's the queen of retcon

I've never heard her say anything other than the scores are hard to sing.

Agreed. The band is terrible and this is music that demands rhythmic precision and tightness in the ensemble.

John T. Omg is that 100% sure? :O

Cosmicbleh I mean, it’s in her memoir that she wrote so probably accurate

Cosmicbleh she was also high every night at évita during act 2

John T. Oh, I definitely should buy it and read it. Thank you!

I read her memoir and don’t remember reading anything about that....

The song is defiance, rebellion, and anger. Of course it's an aggressive performance.

Who needs smooth sound in Evita??? That’s hilarious 😂 All we need is a crazy bitxh on the stage

tonyguy2 it's far too harsh! And the falsetto and vibrato is all over the place. But your all entitled to your own opinion

Your entitled to your opinion as well.

Personally i find the harshness very telling of how intense the character is at that point of the story. I get how someone might not like that , but I guess it's an acting choice that makes sense.

It was the director's choice not her's Matt.

I love how firm it is, she's a woman filled with a desperate obsession for power. The song builds bigger and bigger to accommodate her vanity, I really don't think it should be sung softly in any way. As for her vibrato, at certain points she doesnt stay on pitch but by doing it the same at every point the line is sung it becomes a stylistic choice. So its a bit harsh to say that her vibrato is all over the place. But as you say were all entitled. Out of interest do you like her voice in other songs or is it her vocal style your not a fan off.

she did rainbow high this way in he rles mouches performances as well. she was irritated and exasperated with the score patti didnt get the coaching or support that say elaine paige, loni ackerman, derin altay, katherine evans, florence lacey and so on did. the worst problem was patti was told do it like elaine did instead of letting her develop her own nuances on evita. she had very little preparation compared to elaine. even still elaine her under study susannah fellows and all her replacements in london did suffer some because of the vocal demands of the score. after a few years they had to give the understudy some of the performances during the week on broadway and in the west end so the lead actresses could get some vocal rest. there were so many times before that the actresses were doing 8 performances 2 matinees a week with no break. a little insider info for you ;)

You clearly have zero clue about the history of her Les Mouches show.

I wouldn’t say she’s awful, yes the performance is a bit strange but that’s because it was a modified version of the song and she’s singing it out of context from the show. Also at the time of this being recorded she had done that show 8 times a week for 13 months, that’s got to have a lot of effect on her voice to be belting this out everyday. Ok bye bye have a nice day!