Seth Rudetsky deconstructs Norbert Leo Butz/Emily Skinner/Alice Ripley and Jason Robert Brown

@cdcmusic101 NOOOOOO!!!!

O my! It's your fault that I'm obessed with that Norbert-Leo-Butz-kind-of-riff.  :)

I heard that Alice Ripley is losing her voice...say it ain't so

Rumor has it that Last 5 Years is in movie talks? That would be great.  Interested to see how they'd do it.

@zonkzink You're right. Besides, you can tell it's Emily by her voice. It's a bit more husky than Alice's. You can hear Alice singing right before Emily's "I think you are, and Buddy is the guy."

Love this one! Lol... i just saw you yesterday seth in ptown! except i was too scared to say hi!

Check out Emily's "R" in Who Will Love Me As I Am. "Could we bend the laws of natuRRe?"

@xdfvcre4 it's Two's Company from Ripley/Skinner: Raw at Town Hall. :)

Lulz, when you played Two's Company, I was gunna say, "THAT'S NOT EMILY, THAT'S ALICE BEING A FUCKING GODDESS." But I agree, Emily and Alice are AMAZING with their "R"s and you're not the only one who's obsessed with that.

WTF

Sonny Mehta is a publisher and editor-in-chief of Alfred A Knopf.

Love you....amazing lessions in singing style...

you are obsessed lol

Sonney Mateh is a book publisher, btw.

bahaha I have to tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed watching this! Not everyone understands what it's like to be completely obsessed with just little phrases in music! It's not a hard R, but one of the things I'm absolutely crazy about is how Alice sings "Where is a mine!?"(and you're right, by the way. the "I think you are and Buddy is the guy" is totally Emily Skinner.) You've seen Next to Normal, right? The Rs that Alice sings just make her part that much more intense!!!

I don't hear too much of a bite in "Jamie Stein".

Wow I can't believe you cought all of that! I loooove norberts "long" woith the riff thigh he has such a great range!!

i <3 norberts singing

You should also listen to the first verse, there's quite a bit of Rs, "I'm breaking my mothER's heARt, The LonGER I stand looking at you, The MORE I HEAR it splinTER and cRack ."

omggg norb leo NAILS the vibrato at 4:39 on the "con-TROOOOOOOOL". so much mask. i love it.

hahah! this is great! i think my favorite emily 'R' is in 'we share everything' when she goes 'two different voices, identical choices. neveR an aRgument heeeRah'

I heard Norbert say "er" in the line "Spain or Japan". Ik that the r is kinda hard, even for like an 8th or 16th note, but really, "er"?

I SOOOO want to have dinner with Seth.......

omfg i live for hard "r" s  :-)