FULL “Let It Go” from the Frozen North American Tour, performed by Caroline Bowman. All credit to Disney and the owners of the video #LetItGo #FrozenBroadway #Elsa
I saw her a few months ago in Chicago. She is by far the best Elsa in terms of physicality, appearance, vocals, and acting choices. I love that she expresses Elsa’s initial trepidation in the first chorus as she embraces this entirely new identity.
The video, while beautiful, DOES NOT DO HER JUSTICE. Her voice is so powerful but relaxed at the same time, and I’m so lucky to have the honor of seeing her. ❤
She is so consistently dazzling. What a star. her acting is spot on. She's the only Elsa who I truly see go on a journey and by the end of the song, believe for the first time that she's special. It's so wonderful to see!
Just watched this live last night. This video does it no justice. You have to see the overall effects in the background as she sings. It was breathtaking
@@justbecause951 Agreed! I had to try and hold myself back from watching anything but Let it Go (just because that was what got me really excited to watch it) before watching it in the West End. When I saw it live a few days ago, it was incomparable to the videos. The sets were beautifully made, all of the vocals were fantastic! You can not recreate the atmosphere of the theatre with a video.
I’d like to hear her as Evita Perón. I think she’d be able to hold her own in a production of EVITA. Just one thing, though. Why isn’t the audience cheering for her when she does all the other ice magic tricks before her dress changes? That’s the only thing that’s bothering me-because I take it as a sign that the audience isn’t on her side. If they were, they’d be impressed with the smaller bits of ice magic. I think she’s wonderful as Elsa, based on this video. But I can’t tell if her audience is a cold fish, and they’re not going to react much in response to almost anything, or if they’re just not on her side as Elsa. If they just aren’t on her side, why is that? Why didn’t she win them over the same way that other Elsas have?
That moment when such a SMALL thing as a moving staircase set piece makes a WORLD of difference in a number. Why was that not used on Broadway? It's something SO simply but added SO much more visual interest to the end of the number.
It’s not used because it’s a way of getting the dress off. They have a different way of doing it on broadway. On tour “ not ruining the magic “ but the staircase adds a distraction to the real magic happenings. Because the theaters they travel to aren’t built with everything
There is a staircase on the broadway version but i think is on screen and is just used for aesthetics. The stairs on tour is used to suck the dress in because not all theater have under stage access to suck the coronation dress off
The small thing was just a trapdoor so when she goes on stairs and then when it’s time for Transformation the trapdoor opens and then the dress will be pulled in the stairs.😊
I saw Caroline last night in East Lansing, MI and she was outstanding. What a voice!! There was a collective “Wow!” when the lights came up for intermission after “Let It Go”.
I saw this tour when it came through ASU Gammage a couple of months ago, and I literally sobbed when she sang this song. The movie had never really moved me, but seeing her sing this live was unbelievable. I have a friend who has seen the show multiple times on Broadway, including the original Broadway cast, and said that she was by far the best Elsa that has ever played the part.
Was honor to watch Caroline as Elsa twice this year at National Art Center in Ottawa for Frozen also unfortunately today she broke news on her Instagram account on July 28th will be her final performance as Elsa in Spokane Washington.
Can you post this Frozen NAT full show to me, frozen smile, Else The Snow Angel and Ana671? We are Frozen fans and would love to see other Elsa and Anna casts in broadways. 2 new Frozen shows will be in Sydney, AU this upcoming December and West End in London next spring! Don't forget also to post links for us as well! Reply soon! Thank you!
Does anyone have Cassie Levy, Caroline Bowman, Charissa Hogeland, and Lauren Nicole Champman in full broadways or national tours with videos or links? So far I have Alyssa Fox and Clara Renee. Reply soon! Thank you!
@@remitheninjacat Lauren was the understudy for Anna on Frozen on Broadway in 2018, and in 2020 she became the standby for Anna for Frozen on Broadway.
Was Frozen and saw Caroline’s understudy. I felt a little underwhelmed by her performance and after seeing g this I feel like I need to see the show again to be able to see her perform because I seriously missed out! 😢
WOWWWW. Wow. Whoa, hold on now. Wow. Ok, hear me out- plenty of people have played this part already but I’ve always winced at the last 5 bars and said ‘Jesus her poor vocal folds, hello nodules, enjoy the next 3 months of your career cos after that you will sound like Harvey Fierstein for life’. However Bowman is out there mixing the end (ie not fully belting it) and it actually sounds nicer imo and I don’t feel compelled to write to the musical director to tell them to stop vocally abusing their actors 😂
First time I hear a version by a truly dramatic mezzo, that can properly hit the lower E with a decent vibrato. Still not enough power and depth in the lower G in my opinion. This song is too low for most vocalists. I would much prefer more depth in the intro, even if the final belt is strained and/or twanged.
but you do need to think about the fact that they need to do this song 8 shows a week. that’s A LOT of singing. and to sing this song full voice in the original key is very vocally uncomfortable (even for professionals) and to do it 8 shows a week is absolutely impossible if you want to maintain good vocal health. a “strained” or “twanged” belt is extremely dangerous for vocalists as it slams the vocal chords together and forces you to push the sound out, which causes loss of voice and sometimes nodes. even though they are professionals, they are still people who have limits and can get hurt. this song is a powerful number as is and was put in a different key to protect the actresses voices.
@@lorele243 definitely agree! would rather have the intro and middle section in this key since the highest notes are already difficult enough to sing on their own, imagine how much more difficult doing it everyday and having to preserve your voice for other numbers, too (especially monster, since it's a very difficult song to sing).
Ummm...believe me, it’s easier to BS your way through a song that’s too low than too high. I say BS loosely, but only as a way to make my point. You can interpolate a note or two if a song is too low, but try doing that with a song that’s too high and it’s loses the power those “high notes” are supposed to exude. As for key, I don’t mind it in G, I’m pretty sure it was lowered so it was indeed more singable for specifically for Cassie, but there’s also some belters out there who find it easier in the original key of Ab, myself included. The low E has always been just outside my comfortable/useable range, I have the low F 95% of the time. As for the power house parts of the song, it always will be a bit of a fight for vocal survival merely because it’s terrible written for the voice, but in Ab I have better control of my voice in that key and the high Eb isn’t in my vocal break (passagio) whereas the D is. Higher doesn’t mean that you can’t sing it 8 times a week, sometimes it means it doesn’t move or sit in your vocal breaks like a lower key might. I’m sure these ladies CAN sing it in Ab, but if it’s easier for them to do it that many times a week in G, more power to them, consistency is key (HA!) And there’s nothing wrong with “twang” but you do need to use it properly, that’s for sure. But strain is a huge no no. You won’t get through any role if you’re straining.
@@mathyys i t’s not that, it’s that most of the people who can hit the note either aren’t right for the role or they can’t hit the notes in the other songs. It’s better to have someone who can do most of it vocally and sacrifice one little bit of a song than to sacrifice a whole musical for- what? 10, 16 bars? It’s just not worth it. And if they strain the belt, it’s like the other person said, it could ruin their voice. They’re people, not everything is going to be perfect. And yes, they will do it to sell tickets, because if they don’t, show gets cancelled.
