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Examples
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Are Broadway shows more "belty" than they used to be?
Is "American Idol" hurting Broadway? Ann Althouse 2005
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Her big Act I set piece was a brassy, belty, musical-comedy-style number that came off like a much-inferior version of "Could I Leave You?" from Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
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Without her, the show would have lacked the type of traditional belty R&B diva that's been synonymous with the show since day one.
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Tonight saw the return of her big, belty voice, but, as Kara said, it almost sounds like Magnus has two voices.
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Mary Martin type (the original Nellie in '49), with a similar rasp at the edge of her belty soprano.
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Eugene may be borscht-belty, but he's a young Mr. Simon-how could he not be?
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It's so archetypal, just this big, belty, brassy, showstopper-y song after song after song.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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Eugene may be borscht-belty, but he's a young Mr. Simon-how could he not be?
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Blickenstaff: I don't know what this says about me, but I have four entrances, and the first three are all very showy and big belty songs.
Playbill.com : News 2009
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Anika Larsen - the cherubic-looking blonde with the belty R&B voice - was the only performer to be in both the original Broadway cast of
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