SETH RUDETSKY DECONSTRUCTS La Cage, Most Happy Fella and li'l Audra MacDonald

[krispykritterlover]

I always thought the woman doing the scooping at the end was Marin! OMG!

[jcb561]

I like your honey badger video better.

[Targemq8]

Talk. Slower. Darling, I know you're all famous and whatnot, and even when I don't agree with your treatises, I enjoy them, but HOLY HELL TALK SLOWER.

[maggiepower]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed Audra at the end of the chorus. Thanks for your awesome videos.

[rogharm]

love robert weede love this opera lesson. i found someone who knows and agrees with me!!!!! love opera singers who sing in english. opera singers are great. where can i hear the robert weede ? what a voice and there was no stereo then. i want hear hear the entire great recording with the opera singers. "My ROmance" sung by Jan Peerce is great on youtube. ROGHARM i love your EXAMPLES. OBSESSED TOO. But i grew up with quality musical singing. remember aged 65???!!!

[showersinger34]

HAHA! ohhh, those sopranos. you know, i agree, there's a point where we can't sing consonants or the vowels will close up, but you could at least PRETEND to!

Then again, I'm working on "Out of my dreams" and optioning up, so instead of "with you" i end up with "waaath yaaa"

[crazyking1325]

those last two measures in Ragtime just killed me, i was like HOLY SHIT THAT'S SO COOL this makes me wanna play piano

[Selendomono]

lol Audra's moment in this video just about sums her up, phenomenal singing and being the loudest one in the chorus. god i love her.

[crivz]

Seth, I love you. Thank you for giving the seal of approval that we opera-trained singers are an asset to the Broadway musical. You are now officially my new bff.

[totallyactr18]

another scooper in the ragtime bit is the lead tenor taking the high note!

[PiecesOfRainbow7]

I LOVE GEORGE HEARN!! And you Seth Dahling.

[baracine]

What you call "scooping" has been called "le phrasé" in France for the past 150 years. It's phrasing, darling. You might also want to look into "mélisme".

[violetcloud]

so they call it different things... your point is?

[BroadwayLove727]

oh gosh wish i had someone to say 'im obsessed ___"

i think we would be best friends.

[AtLastOnTheGround]

Another amazing version of opera scooping --

When Julia Murney (<3) sings "Defying Gravity", on "Is ever gonna bring me down", she sings "gonna bri--HING me down" and does this amazing scoop.

And George Hearn's voice is to die for.

[bwaygirl234]

ragtime is so amazing. ahh. that show makes me wish i was a soprano

sadly, i can only play an immigrant due to my physical appearance and my vocal range...

but oh boy is the piano ending of that song FIERCE. i must look in my ragtime book to see if that piano part is in there!

o.m.g.

the "happy man" thing with the sopranos - hilarious. HILAR.

a musical director i worked with once told the sopranos: "forget about your diction when you sing high, ladies! just say vowels! consonants mean nothing!"

[skb2010]

I am very proud of my self for actually noticing the opera scoop at the end of ragtime. And while on the subject of Ragtime, I LOVE the picalo part.

[FoggyRoad81]

Same here I always am like, Audra no you didn't manage to stand out in the middle of that huge chorus! lol

[ShoeMocker1]

If you open the songs with Quick Time, you can have all the songs in separate windows so that you can drag the clips to the exact start times before you start recording your video instead of shuffling around in iTunes.

<3, your stage manager.

[Dancer9228]

i was just about to suggest something like that.

<3, another stage manager

[jedigurl527]

I was gonna say to put in markers in quicktime!

<3, the third stage manager :)

[JustDANCE9506]

hahaha i laughed out loud at the happy man thing.

[am0911]

I think you should totally do a deconstruction on Miranda. hahaha

[tpmuch]

I believe that's Marin singing that note. Audra is probably also singing it but I remember seeing the mini version on Rosie O'Donnell Show and Marin was hitting the note...just an FYI...I could be wrong.

You also do an excellent discription of "trained" singing. Not necessarily "Opera" singing. A lot of crooners do the same thing. It's about placement and vowels and phrasing. Which unfortunately is missing from most of theatre today.

[whsdrama87]

Great video Seth!

George Hearn = Hero

[CorianderCivar]

I. Love. YOU.

[cxeazn]

Hey Seth I think you should explain what a diphthong is. The only reason I know is i took vocal music in high school.

[16BarCut]

broadWAY! obsesseddddd... with the 30 days of deconstruction!!

[blackpython]

HAHAHA, your imitation of the "Happy Man" sopranos was one of my favorite moments on any of your videos.

[forbuss]

i loved your hair in all of these! :) AUDRA IS AMAZING. loved her in annie  :)

[aelievense]

Ahhhhh..I'm OBSESSED with your deconstructions!!!!

[musicislovex0]

YES YOURE BACK! could you please do more ragtime? maybe marin mazzie's "back to before"??

[GlorySong]

Seth, there you are!

I was getting worried!!

[tenorbear60]

Love you Seth! Weede is doing a what's called in Italian a portamento - as you say on the dipthong ah-ee to get the vowel into the right place. The portamento is used to glide the voice from one vowel to the next. It keeps the "line" going.

What the sopranos were doing in the Most Happy Fella cut is vowel modification. Basically, they drop the consonants so the voice can soar on the vowels over that big orchestra without the benefit of mics.

[mymixedtape05]

i love audra! my high school just did the school edition of it, and i was Tateh, (:

so much fun! best show ever!

[atrociousprincess]

I am loving the daily videos, they make my day :)

[MissBroadwayDork]

Yay! An Audra Deconstruct at last...even if it's short! And Miranda love!

[davecrimi]

LOVE Ragtime!

You were in the pit! Ah. Ma. Gah.

Seth, to quote Mrs. Turnblad: "knights in armor don't come any shiny-er than you"

[MakeMusic4Life]

you say "totally obsessed" after everything. and I love it. :)

[abilitaacs]

awesome deconstruction! i love that you pointed out audra's scoop in that ensemble, i've always loved it! april's gonna be an awesome month!

[EleahB]

Mirandasings is one of my new obsessions too :)

Your videos are hilarious....so looking forward to your April vids

[dthoma14]

SETH. I loved that you randomly shouted out mirandasings. Hahahahaha!! You are too awesome.

[theBestArts]

I'm loving April!

[angelxschunard]

I love you, Seth! You ALWAYS make me laugh! This is great.

[Broadwaymusialzz]

great video again!! :)