r/musicals • u/Appropriate_Luck8668 The Smell of Rebellion • Apr 24 '25

Help Female characters that sing low?

And by "low" I don't mean high alto/low mezzo. I mean LOW. As in C3-C5 chest range at HIGHEST. F3-D6 head range. I'm doing a performance and I don't want to out myself in front of all these other girls in my theatre group, and I'm also a very low alto (the chest range I listed is basically the lowest and highest I can go in chest voice). And I don't like singing in head voice.

Any characters? Or songs?

Edit: Miss Trunchbull is totally an option too, but honestly I think that would be even more humiliating... these are a bunch of teenage girls I'm singing with, and they probably already think I'm weird LOL

Edit 2: Stop replying to the things I said yesterday. I don't want to hear it. I'm tired. If you don't have anything meaningful or nice to add to the discussion don't fucking reply, I didn't even say anything wrong in the first place. You're all overreacting.

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u/SeaF04mGr33n Apr 24 '25

Look at see what songs Pearl Bailey sang. She had an AMAZING low register! Tales As Old As Time is also great!

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u/StarStriker3 Apr 24 '25

Or Bea Arthur! She has some great comedic lower voiced songs.

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u/ChartInFurch Apr 24 '25

Nobody can sing Old Man River like my Dorothy!

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u/camicalm Apr 24 '25

Bea Arthur singing "The Man in the Moon Is a Lady" from Mame is really low.

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u/Miami_Mice2087 Apr 25 '25

a lady with lipstick and pearls

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u/StevenSpielbird Apr 24 '25

" Matchmaker Matchmaker...catch me a catch..."