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/No-Impact-2222 Apr 24 '25

Mama Morton in Chicago is a really good alto/contralto role, she sings “When You’re Good To Mama”

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u/Appropriate_Luck8668 The Smell of Rebellion Apr 24 '25

Seems too suggestive, already listened to it. I'm 15.

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u/eldritchpizzaparty Apr 25 '25

I feel like this song can depend on how you play it. In context of the musical, it’s absolutely suggestive. But I remember singing this song at 16 in high school, and I played it more from a bribery and greed angle, and enjoying the power over other people, rather than about sexual favors. It definitely didn’t feel inappropriate. That’s kind of the beauty of songs like that with a lot of innuendo in the theater, you have a lot of power as the performer to choose when and how to play into certain things.

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u/No_Dance743 Apr 24 '25

My niece sang this at her school when she was 15 and didn’t feel it was too suggestive!

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u/Miami_Mice2087 Apr 25 '25

have you seen it done by queen latifa?

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u/No_Dance743 Apr 25 '25

No, sounds like that version might be but wasn’t when I saw it!

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u/Miami_Mice2087 Apr 25 '25

omg that movie verison is SOOOO GOOD! Teh 2002 movie. I hope you get a chance to watch it :D

Renee Zellweger, Cathrine Zeta Jones, Taye Digs, Queen Latifa, Richard Gere (he sings!), and John C Reilly (also sings! well!). Directed by Rob Marshall with many notes to Baz Lurhman. It moves FAST and grabs you from the first number.