A resounding range of vocal colors

Broadway musicals are mini-operas when you get right down to it. Ready examples of this include Leonard Bernstein's “West Side Story,” Stephen Sondheim's “Sweeney Todd” and even Andrew Lloyd-Webber's “Phantom of the Opera”--all of which have benefited from big-budget, big-voice, big-orchestra treatments and had their songs frequently adapted for vocal recitals by big-name opera stars.

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