A round of applause for Roberta, Sabrina, Willemijn, Vajen & Lois ! But ESPECIALLY for Vajen, Lois & Chiara (Hamburg‘s 2021-2022 non-Replica installment). And let me tell you guys, they put Elphi in a harness and pulled her upwards on strings while (insert any of the 3 mentions above in here) had to sing that high note. The pressure alone the harness had on their throat/chest area must‘ve been insane. Vajen, Lois & Chiara all have the highest respect from me because doing that stunt was actually insane ! (There‘s videos btw if anyone is interested !)
Say what you will: you CAN'T be a bad singer with poor technique and execute Defying Gravity PERIOD. They're ALL INSANELY good and well-trained. Some better than others OBVIOUSLY, but you can't be a poor singer and sing this AT ALL. FULL STOP. It's one of the HARDEST songs in the literal HISTORY of ALL of Musical Theatre. 💚🖤
The fact that people hate on Idina Menzel but she both delivers with the vocals and especially a type of acting and feeling into the song and character no other has been able to accomplish. But props to all the other Elphaba’s as well, it is insanely difficult to play this role.
Rating Vajen as a 2/10 when she & lois were the only ones that were hanging from the theater in a literal harness and had to sing that note is a shame. Especially cause Vajen really nailed that note. I get it‘s personal preference and i‘m biased towards both of them because i got to witness them (& Willemijn) live but i really prefered Vajen‘s over Lois‘ battle riff.
@@ParksonLee-p8w just for the physically demanding nature of that show it should be at least a 6/10. it was a non-replica version & in the og version elphaba is standing on a platform being lifted upwards. The harness Vajen wore to lift her up (and leave her swinging 2 metres under the theater roof) was putting a LOT of pressure on her chest area and for her to have a resonance this good when she‘s hanging in a harness bouncing back and fourth while belting out these notes is incredibly hard (while not standing on a platform) and now imagine that doing it while being in a harness hanging around on 2 strings attached to it…. and she handled it SOOOOO well. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nt56qHiUElw.html here‘s a full clip of her doing Defying Gravity. Just in case you haven‘t seen the way she‘s lifted upwards.