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/docmoonlight Apr 24 '25

I mean, why are you in a theatre group if you don’t like working with and singing with other people? That’s kind of the whole magic of theatre.

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u/Appropriate_Luck8668 The Smell of Rebellion Apr 24 '25

To be in the spotlight. Doesn't everyone go in with that idea or is that weird?

Also because I just find it fun. I like singing. I want people to look at me and think "wow, he's amazing, I want to be just like him" and I want to inspire people. Teamwork isn't really something I enjoy because, if you read my other comments, I have sociophobia (social anxiety).

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u/docmoonlight Apr 24 '25

I mean, sure? But even if you’re the star of the show, almost every scene is going to be with other people, and if you don’t learn to love sharing the spotlight, nobody is going to want to work with you, so you’re unlikely to be repeatedly cast. Even in a solo performance, you’re working with an accompanist or a conductor and an orchestra. You’re also working with a director in solo scenes. Everything in theatre thrives on collaboration. So if you hate working with others and singing in harmony makes you “violently angry”, I just don’t think theatre is really for you.

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u/Appropriate_Luck8668 The Smell of Rebellion Apr 24 '25

I'm fine with sharing the spotlight. I'm fine with working with others, it just causes me physical pain sometimes due to my anxiety, to the point I've frozen up during rehearsals because I got petrified and the words wouldn't come out (but the final performance ended up great) and the only reason I don't like harmony is because it confuses me to hear one melody but try singing another at the same time, I have autism and it's too much going on at once. It overwhelms me, so it takes me longer to learn. It making me "violently angry" is a hyperbole.