Kerry Ellis- No Good Deed (June 17, 08)

[Cmil619]

1) I love the percussion in this particular performance, especially during the chanting.

2) I don't know why, but when she says "So be it then", only in this performance, I always seem to smile for some reason, and I don't know why.

[Mathostatoast]

G.N.erous supplyyyyy!!! loll!

[pilchard96]

is this a soundboard? it's incredible quality...

[17DefyingGravity]

Who gives a shit about certain words and whether she sounds american in this that or the other ?! Its kerry fucking ellis !! She could stand on that stage, say cheese and she would even get a standing ovation !!

[jouissance9283]

@17DefyingGravity amen to that



[KerryEllisFannn]

Kerry sounds fantastic here! She's just perfect.

[simzproductionz]

But her growling gives her a great wicked witch label D: how DARE they take that away from her?!?!?!

[snowyangel97]

@simzproductionz What do u meen take it away from her ? :/

[simzproductionz]

On broadway they made her not use it.

[snowyangel97]

@simzproductionz Aww, why ? It's like her signature notes and stuff though, thats really stupid. x[

[BeautifullyTragicLFB]

Fantastic! But it definately was justa little too fast...

Nice username, by the way...

[yarrrrangele]

she has a GREAT voice.... but why does she sing so fast and short?

[areasia89]

Kerry Ellis has a good voice but she sngs too fast.

[JesusLoverOfMySoul10]

Not the best performance. It just sounds really off, no offense intended. It just seems really breathy and kind of rushed in some place.

[Sadyize101]

She's not my favorite elphaba that's for sure..she's not bad, but she seems really breathy at times...and off note. But that's just my opinion.

[JonnyChups]

"my road of good intentions lead where such..."

i did not like that growl.

[idinaBALLET]

I do not want to offend anyone but in my opinion this is one of her waekest perfomances of NGD she has ever given! And her voice sounded way more powerful in West End when she was allowed to do her growls! Oh... and was not forced to sing with an American accent!!!

[jotodd123]

Omg.... was she not allowed to growl on broadway?? :O

her growls are one of her "signature" things and what seperate and in my opinion makes her better that the other elphaba's!!

[JonnyChups]

really? but then she did start growling.

[JonnyChups]

well it was her first on broadway.

nerves?

[dementieva12]

She did growl on Broadway...singing with an accent kills a lot of power in singing. I wish people would understand. It's hard enough to sing this score in your native accent, but it gets even harder to sing it in a different character voice on top of it.

[idinaBALLET]

I do understand that it is much harder to sing with a foreign accent... and I wasn't critising Kerry for not singing as well with the American accent, I was critisising the producers for even forcing her to sing with an American accent and for makingher leave out her growls after the first couple of shows...

[dementieva12]

@idinaBALLET She never didn't growl if she didn't want to...she always did the Look to the western sky ones when she wasn't vocally tired on broadway.

[xtiffx95]

omg i love this song and love the show wicked

saw it a tthe apollow on one of my drama trips it was great :D

[lwebber88]

This is ok but I am not really a fan. The growling in her voice threw me off. I think its gross to hear a girl growl at all.

[wickedluver22]

I disagree. Well I think that when she growls in the songs on west end it sounds really good, like if you listen to No good deed on her last night, it's really effective, though here it's no where near as effective.

[lwebber88]

I would love to hear it. I just think it's a little odd for girls to growl. But I grew up with the idea that growling and yelling are not needed and I agree with you at can be very effective at times. I think this is a great clip by the way. :) thank you for responding.

[wickedluver22]

if you search 'no good deed 9/5/09' and click on the one by 'mattyork1973' and listen to that then you'd understand how her growls can be so good... I love you kerry!

[mnm222yellow]

Is it me, or is this Broadway version a lot faster than the West End version?

[ziops1423]

Bear in mind that the conductor makes new tempos every show. He only has a key goal for a tempo. One show it could be rly slow, the next it could be rly fast.

[lnnnnnnn]

she still has one of the best again's of all the elphaba's!

[awesomenessx33]

lovvveee it

[dan000111]

When she was in London she was used to stress some words as 'READING' and 'I'M WICKED'. I think it was much more better and intense.

[lnnnnnnn]

i know!maybe she has to get settled into it more or something...

[xKaraAnnJx]

yh, i think it sounds more intense when she stressed these words.

[natedager8]

I like her voice a lot, but I feel like its too light. Idk maybe its just me

[isabellacinderella]

light? what do you mean?

[Shorthairandcrazy]

The thing is that only about 10-11 days before hand on the week before her last in London, she had tonsillitis and wasn't well, but was fantastic on her last night. The thing is that the prosceniums of The Apollo Victoria and The Gershwin are very different acoustically so she has to adjust to the difference. It will be brilliant now I would say - Remember, this was her first on Bway.

[scootyscoot4]

I agree, that here, her vocals are very light, I also think that forcing the accent isn't helping. She is phenomenal in London and I think she got better as the run on Broadway went on.

[GJC1995]

I agree with scootyscoot4. think kerry is phenomenal but i think that her accent sucks in the eleka nhamen's, listen to her 2no wizard that there is or was" in broadway and london and you will nottice a difference. She is brilliant bu better in London

[Emboz]

this is great she must love having a big orchestra to sing with... actually is the orchestra on broadway bigger than the west end one?

[NarkieMarkie12]

i don't think there's any difference really

[WishingOnlyWounds]

I'm going to her final show on November 9th.... so excited!

[WickedlyFlying]

Ive got an audio of Kerry Ellis on Broadway 28 June Message me for trades

[beta214]

Amazing, as alwayz!!!!!

[XxXbubzieXemzXxX]

Good performance by normal standards

But she can do so much better and you'de think she'd do a performance like she did on 07.06.08 to win over the americans..

Ooh but I like her growl :D

[livingdeaddolls]

Well, she'd been poorly for a while beforehand, for 07.06.08 they put Cassidy on in the afternoon (not because she was leaving, it was to save Kerry's strength - I asked one of the cast). Maybe she's still fighting the remnants of a bug?

[WishingOnlyWounds]

She is. She has missed A LOT. Just about every matinée.

[livingdeaddolls]

Poor Kerry! :(

[xWestlifex4xEvaahx]

I Miss Kerry Too Much :/

Hope you all enjoy having her over therr x :)

Love you Kerry :) x

what Happend To Her Accent :) :P x

[WishingOnlyWounds]

She is putting on American accent for the show.

As a American... I would prefer she kept her English accent, I was looking forward to hearing it.

[stacey12278]

Usually when kerry sings in wicked (even on the west end) she has a sort of american accent but when she speaks she speaks normally.

[1Kewlgirl]

She sounds amazing. I am going to see her on the 19th of july and I cant wait.

[FreakInTraininxD]

i saw her in london in february- trust me, you will be blown away. in songs like defying gravity and the wizard and i it's even more amazing if you have seats quite near the stage, so you hear the full extent of it (:

[wikedluva]

sounds kinda fake

[morbidkitty]

how does this sound fake?

[wikedluva]

her accent

[MusicalMatty5]

god.. just love her

[DefyingGravity1990]

she is amazing wow!

[RandomRantings]

I'll be seeing her on july 9th and i can't wait

[RandomRantings]

I wonder if it is harder to sing with an american accent for her

[beautifullytraagic]

she always sort of sounds american when she sings. i mean, in comparison to say Alexia or Shona White, who sound very British even when they sing. Kerry sounds British in certain words, but you can't exactl tell she's British just by listening to her sing.

[MEE051677]

she just sounds American when she sings...she's not trying to! A lot of British singers sound American when they sing! Elton John, George Michael so on and so on! It's not intentional

[RandomRantings]

Never got to see her .. the standby played instead of kerry ... so diapointed the standby was less then exciting

[misstears002]

everyone says shes doing american accent but on 'chanting' she sounds very english

x

[beautifullytraagic]

t me it sounds more like she's trying to speak in a British accent, but she isn't entirely good at it. :P like at "i didn't eat grass as a child", "i'm beautifully tragic", and "it's a little perky"..compare British Kerry to Broadway Kerry, and in this show it definitely sounds American.