Post by yanagijuniper on Apr 13, 2024 23:04:58 GMT
John Cameron Mitchell
Vocal Range: B1 - A#4 (Tenor)
Significant high notes:
A#4: ("Tear Me Down", "Tear Me Down")
A4: ("Wig in a Box", "The End of Love", "Nation of One", "The End of Love", "Wig in a Box")
G#4: ("Giants in the Sky", "Homunculus", "Sugar Daddy", "Gog and Demagogue")
G4: ("Homunculus", "Tear Me Down", "Wick", "Midnight Radio" "Wig in a Box", "Gog and Demagogue", "Tear Me Down", "Everybody Look", "Midnight Radio", "Exquisite Corpse")
F#4: ("Winter's on the Wing", "Wick", "Wig in a Box", "The Origin of Love", "State Road", "The End of Love", "Sugar Daddy", "The Origin of Love", "Wig in a Box", "Winter's on the Wing", "Exquisite Corpse")
Significant low notes:
A2: ("Midnight Radio", "The Origin of Love",)
F#2: ("If You Were Born")
E2: ("If You Were Born")
B1: ("If You Were Born")
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (in this case mostly the colorful folksy mode John Cameron Mitchell goes into often on higher notes).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes or screaming.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix and/or recording quality.
• Blue indicates that this is from a particular live performance of the song, which will be linked in its first instance. Otherwise, assume that a soundtrack or album is being referred to.
• Expect songs to often be listed multiple times under a note, since in many cases there are different instances of these notes in one song, for convenience, the notes I feel are more valid are listed first
John Cameron Mitchell (April 21, 1963- ) is an actor, singer, writer, director, and basically every other thing a person can be. If you were to consider him an "or", "er", or "ess" of every single thing he had done, he would be an animator, a fashion designer, a fictionally failed Broadway producer, a dancer (which he is not), and all sorts of other things I'm too uncreative to joke about. He is most known, of course, for Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a rock musical which he wrote and starred in Off-Broadway along with songwriter Stephen Trask. He went on to direct a feature film adaptation of the musical, writing the screenplay and starring in it, and return to star in the Broadway production, for which he won a Tony Award. He's become a bit of a gay icon, and is incredibly well known within the theatre community for a number of other theatrical endeavors, including an iconic role in The Secret Garden and a musical podcast called Anthem: Homunculus.
It's safe to say much of his career has been made up of singing. In the beginning, he was noted for his effortless tenor voice with a beautiful and unplaceable quality. Though those traits have certainly been preserved even into his sixties, it is notable that he sings within a relatively small range for a legendary Broadway performer. What is important to note and demonstrated here by the sheer number of bolded notes, John Cameron Mitchell has an incredibly strong voice that persists completely even near the highest part of his range. This is kind of the main point of this thread.
This is still very much a work in progress, of course! This is just what I've looked at so far. I would appreciate help with this very much. I adore John Cameron Mitchell. I remember some higher notes from some live recordings but I struggle to actually find them. I still need to check much of New American Dream and a bit of Anthem: Homunculus.