Broadway Stars Sustaining For Their LIFE! 

I tried to included old school queens and new school queens. Hope you like it!

I ran out of breath just listening to these women

So what you mean is, anyone who's played Elphaba

RuPaul: The time has come... for you to sustain... FOR!!! YOUR!!! LIFE!!!!!

Melba only seems to stop sustaining because the music requires her to 😂 Edit: Barbra Streisand too 😅

I really wanna see my name in Mister Golightly font one day

Julie Andrews used to have the most beautiful voice. Her surgery ruined it. But those long notes that Lea and Amber held out were incredible. Barbra never seizes to amaze me. She’s hella talented

Melba Moore made sustaining notes look easy.

I was "yeah, no one is goin' to top this start", then Melba came!

Sutton’s little nod like “I know, I’m pretty incredible, right?”.

I love how Sutton's just like oh hey I'm just gonna casually hit this note no big deal.

was melba even trying?

I'm a simple person - I see Lea Salonga in the thumbnail, and I click on it!

I am in love with Laura bell bundy! the few clips of her holding the final ‘so much better’ note without the breath are incredible.

i think sierra’s best sustained note is in wishing you were somehow here again

Barbra is the queen of long notes... And what a great way to end the video!

Why is Jennifer Holiday's vibrato coming completely from her jaw. lol Some serious tension there. I'm dead

where on god's green earth does melba keep all that AIR

Can we appreciate Amber Reilly for a few hundred hours

Melba really said y’all sustained but I’m SUSTAINING 🤪🤡 period.

A lot of people with good/perfect technique, in other words, a Broadway technique.

I always love Amber's rendition of "And I Am Telling You" because you can tell she's not trying to sing it like either of the Jennifer's. . .she just does it her way and I love that about her!!

Barbra is the type of woman that makes "Breathe with your nose" seem like it's a great advice xD

5:35 oh Judy, you deserved so much better

Legend says Ruthie is still singing that Ah till ths day

Whaaat Melba Moore is a BEASSST

Ruthie wasn't even done yet lol

Willemijn Verkaik slayed big time!! Also, Melba Moore's part is fucking legendary!! :D BTW, Lea Salonga has hit a longer note in her cover of 'Piece of sky'. And you could've included Pia Douwes in here too, she's sustained a belt and an ultra high head voice note right after that in her song 'ich gehor nur mir' from Elisabeth!

Barbara! Heather Headley! Melba Moore?!?!?!?!?! CYNTHIA! These are all so amazing I can't name all the times my jaw dropped watching this

Liza Minnelli gave me chills Melba Moore made me realize I’m not breathing good enough.

"Broadway queens stand before me. The time has come for you to Sustain....for yaaar life!! God luck, and don't fuck it up"

HOLY CRAP NUGGETS WILLEMIJN'S RIFF WAS *INSANE*

1:21 Barbara cheering on Idina ❤️ We love a Queen who stans another.

Bernadette Peters looks so similar to the debut era Mariah Carey! Now I see where Carey got her inspiration from! :D

I was practically waiting for So Much Better haha

This video brought me back to life.

Sierras clip should have been from phantom or love never dies

I once held the last note to Somewhere That's Green for like 15 seconds. it was both heaven and hell.

I love Rachel Tucker so much she is amazing!!! I had the privilege to see her as Elphaba and she is the best one I have ever heard. She is absolutely incredible😘😘

Sutton Foster is a sustaining MASTER. I wish you had used footage of her singing Gimme Gimme. Literal perfection.

Lea Salonga the Crystal clear Voice !! I her voice so much!! And she did mulan and aladdin too!!

Cheno's version of Maybe This Time always gets me.

Melba Moore. Done and done.

7:00 "she may be difficult but boy can she sing" MISS U Rachel Berry ❤

I love to see Patti Luponne in your videos! I'm very fan of her voice acting Yellow Diamond in Steven Universe (my favourite show ever 💕😱)

I once watched a video comparing pop singers on the album versus in real life. I was unimpressed because I knew ladies like these can hold notes for days, higher than what most pop singers can hit, without the help of autotune, for repeat performances.

Why was the end note of Lea Salonga's I Dreamed a Dream cut out?? That was the sustained part!!!1

Melba Moore...where did that come from!? My goodness!

Lol 😂 Kristin wasn’t sustaining for her life. She was so effortless

God. Judy Garland gives me chills

Damn Judy Garland’s voice is so SMOOTH!!!!

Thank you so much for adding Queen Heather Headly in this!!! Such an underrated singer!

Melba Moore....wow

So glad you included Linda Eder in this. None of my friends know who she is, which is a damn shame considering her vocal talent.

Willemijn Verkaik just snatched my edges

For Sierra Boggess it should’ve been a clip from Phantom of the opera

all these women are so amazing holy mother of god

Melba is such a monster wow

I love, love, love Patti and Linda ❤ And, of course, Barbra, Julie and Judy!

I know Barbra and Linda has lungs for days and days. Barbra is well known for her 18-second notes, especially at the end of Piece of Sky. You should take a listen to Linda’s ultra long note at the end of By Myself in one of her albums. But by sheer length and effortlessness, gotta hand it to Melba - that is a masterpiece of a held note. And just when you think she is going to stop, she went UP instead and hold it even longer! If that is not a BEAST, I don’t know what is!

So happy to see you include Melba Moore in your videos. Loved her back in the day!

Legend has it that Ruthie Henshall is still holding that note.

Lea Salonga = Perfection

So glad Linda Eder was in this. She has an amazing lung capacity. But you should have used her concert clip of "Bring on the Men," because it was crazy.

Liza! And Judy at 5:30?! BLESS!!🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Not to mention Shoshana was sick during that wicked performance and still rocked it!!

These are the people that should be appreciated as artists. All these newer artists don't have raw talent like this

Jennifer Holliday is amazing but honey what was with the AaAaAaA LooooAAAaaooAvvvvEeEe 😂

Only just found this video. Thank you for including Rachel Tucker in this video. I love the growl she does on the "and" during the last line of Wizard and I. All her growls and riffs from when she was in Wicked are amazing. Everyone in this video was amazing.

Mr Golightly this video is so compelling. Even the singers I have mixed feelings about gave me LYFE! Thanks so much. I found my self COL - Cheering Out Loud.

Maybe someone will find this useful: Barbra Streisand: Make Our Garden Grow - (Candide In Concert) Patti LuPone: Being Alive - (Company) Kristine Chenoweth: Maybe This Time - (Cabaret) Idina Menzel: Don't Rain On My Parade - (Funny Girl) Sierra Boggess: Part of Your World - (Little Mermaid) Samantha Barks: On My Own - (Les Miserables) Eden Espinosa: No Good Deed - (Wicked) Laura Bell Bundy: So Much Better - (Legally Blonde Musical) Shoshana Bean: No Good Deed - (Wicked) Linda Eder: Man of La Mancha - (El Hombre de la Mancha) Heather Headley: Gods Love Nubia - (Aida) Jennifer Hollyday: And I Am Telling You - (Dreamgirls) Ruthie Henshall: Anything You Can Do (I Can Do Better) - (Annie Get Your Gun) Bernadette Peters: Not a Day Goes By - (Merrily We Roll Along Elaine Paige: Hymn To Love (If You Love Me) - (Piaf (Play)) Lea Salonga: I Dreamed a Dream - (Les Miserables) Melba Moore: I've Got Love - (Purlie) Cynthia erivo: A Piece of Sky - (Yentl) Ethel Merman and Fred Astaire: Duet-Medley - (The Hollywood Palace) Liza Minelli: New York, New York - (New York, New YorK) Judy Garland: Over The Rainbow - (The Wizard of Oz) Rachel Tucker: No Good Deed - (Wicked) Sutton Foster: Anything Goes - (Anything Goes) Betty Buckley: Rose's Turn - (Gypsy) Julie Andrews: The Sound of Music - (The Sound of Music) Amber Riley: And I Am Telling You - (Dreamgirls) Lea Michele: (I didn't found anything but videos about Lea being racist on Glee) Willemijn Verkaik: Defying Gravity (Wicked)

Linda Eder ~ just effortless with a smile🤩

Idk why but when I saw John Barrowman I started screaming I love doctor who way too much 😂

Nice video! So many great voices in this! And Melba Moore “Holy crap!” :)

Shoshana is my favorite from this one...but these ladies are powerhouses! Wow! That note by Barbara at the beginning was wow...and vibrato..that takes even more air than a regular sustained note.

That clip of Sutton singing anything goes is my fave version she did :)

Can we appreciate Judy Garland for a few hundred years

Linda Eder: Never breaks a sweat, never looks pained singing those notes. That's called good technique.

Samantha's voice!!

Thanks for including some West End icons too!

2:01 OMG remember watching this so many months ago not knowing who LBB was, now i love her so much in LB and i just love this clip sooo much

That first note by STREISAND...amazing. :)

K Barbra is my Queen Of All Things and Amber Riley was phenomenal, but I literally fell outta my chair when Melba Moore just kinda decided to never stop.

I love how most of these are Elphabas and you put Idina as Fanny lol - it was refreshing to hear her in a different role!

OmG that last one from Willemijn Verkaik gave me the chills!!!

I went to let my cat in when the video started and when I came back Barbra was still going

Not gonna lie, I came for Samantha Barks and I'm so glad she was here!

Didn't know Bernadette, wow :0 I really can't decide this time, which one I love the most! But I'm very very happy you put in Willemijn Verkaik :D

jennrifer holliday looks like shes eating the microphone

Queen Barbara, Melba Moore & Liza blew my mind

what melba moore performance is that from? i can't seem to find it anywhere

That Ruthie Henshall/John Barrowman video is one of my most watched videos...it always slays me. 💕

So many of my favorites in one video❤️❤️

Sierra Boggess, Idina, Kristin, Jennifer Holliday, Julie Andrews and Lea omg I LOVE THIS!!!

Most satisfying video ever

“She used to be mine” “What Baking can do”? Great video 😁

Elaine Paige ❤️❤️ I love her. Her rendition of Memory in Cats gets me every time.

ooo liza is saucy, also fitting you put Liza and Judie together, that was touching

Willemijn Verkaik! My all time fave -

Just found your channel and I am LOVING your videos! Misspelled Minnelli in this video, though. ;)