Sutton Foster "Gimme Gimme" (2003 VS 2010 VS 2018) 

omg thats so true!

She describes herself as a very shy person, Fiona allowed her mentally to be more free with characterization, and I guess its stuck because it allows her to overcome that shyness.

Oh that’s pretty sick

It's funny, because she said that show helped her open up, but even back in Thoroughly Modern Millie I could pick up on her silliness 😂 she had it the whole time

I think it's also cause her voice matured over the years.

She definitely has Domingo-itis going on.

@@jamestaylorstudios28 What's that?

cuppajess 100%

Indeed

If anything she looks younger!!!!

Stacey Robinson I don’t know if that was a reference to her show (Younger) or an actual comment but I agree 😂❤️

because she knows how to sing properly

I think she has changed vocally, I think her resonance is deeper!

Nice seeing you here! are you going to make a part 3 of your least favorite vocal moments?

probably not, i don't really have that many least favourite moments ya know.

It sounds like she’s using a very powerful mix in the original production and now she prefers to use a belt throughout the number instead of the mix

I have noticed this!! It bothers me too and I love her so much! But wobble is the perfect way to describe it. Sometimes I listen to her and I'm like, "what is going on here?" Like her vibrato was put in slow motion.

I'm pretty sure the "wobble" is just something that comes with age! I hear it a lot with older female performers. I don't think it's something they can completely control. Sutton Foster isn't old, but 2003-2018 is a 15 year difference, and a lot changes in our bodies within 15 years! She does still sound fantastic, though! 😊

I think she's doing the 'vibrato only at the end' thing that Seth Rudetsky taught him when they performed They're Playing Our Song

I've noticed that as well

Maddie Marigold ME TOO!!!! It sounds so weird and out of place

awn I kind of love how she pronnounces it

IK HAHA

I honestly love that part 😂😂😂

Ikr. I HATE it. Sounds so over the top. I see that kind of pronunciation in singers who try to mask the fact that they can't hit the note. Which of course, doesn't apply to sutton, she's astonishing (haha get it) so i see no point in her doing that.

Same

You also need to put this into context. The original performance was meant to make the show known and she was more in character. After so many years of course it has become more playful and a sort of homage to the song. Frankly it would have been weird to see her do Millie in 2018 exactly as it was meant to be performed on stage in 2002.

@@fureyize exactly!

She’s using “cartoony” moments to get around her range and stay in her signature Broadway belt. This kind of tone is usually impossible to maintain over a singer’s life, so her voice is freakishly strong.

@@mariellencarter5108 why impossible?

Drew Fitzgerald The shade is egregiously unnecessary. Idina Menzel may not have the greatest technique but, there are other contributing factors that explain why she lowered the key of defying gravity. (She sings in the original key, for years on end, eight times a week and the moment she cuts her voice a break by lowering it half a step you’re jumping down her throat?!) The reasons also have to do with the hormone change after birth. If you study voice, which I’m positive you don’t, you’d know that a woman’s voice drops significantly after birthing a child (something Sutton has never done which shows why she can still sing the song in the original key) another reason is Idina Menzel suffers from severe asthma, and breath support is avid to support any part of the voice. Idina’s technique has gotten better the older she gets, and the fact after 16 years of singing such a demanding song she only needs to lower it by half a step to sing comfortably is pretty damn good technique!! Thank you.

@@Isa-wisa2002 ikr

Whitney Houston um- was- was this necessary?

@@Isa-wisa2002 "because her technique has gotten better the older she gets" Every live performance of Let It Go disagrees with you

Shadow Morty Technically speaking, Idina Menzel’s voice has improved. She can sustain higher, fuller belts and I highly doubt every performance of let it go has been tough for her. You’re referring to her mainstream performances of the song however, when she’s comfortable in concert she’s dominated that song time and time again. Let’s fast forward slightly more recent, into the unknown which by far the hardest song she’s sung in the frozen franchise she’s now dominating live. Just a few of her recent concerts show such things so good try but you’ll have to come harder with the next one.

HorrorM Girl I’m a cellist and not a singer... but it seems to me like a cheat she does so as not to have to fully commit to the sound through that ascending passage

I listened to Carly Gendell’s version and I like how she gets to the top in that passage

Oh, I love that, I am actually!

Or the ending of ladies who lunch!

vowel? lmao thats not exactly a singing term and that note was killer. Suttons a goddess hush hush lolol

Really?

Moon River! :)

Thoroughly Modern Millie