This feisty attitude on stage perhaps compensated for what she freely admitted was a technically imperfect singing voice: a documentary shot during rehearsals of Company catches her self-deprecatingly saying: "I'm just shouting".
Narrated by Dick Van Dyke's comfortable Midwestern voice, the documentary celebrates Walt's genius and his modesty (he's always referred to as Walt), extols his work ethic, dismisses rumors that he was anti-Semitic and glosses over his tough, anti-union business practices.
Maybe, forty years from now, a wizened and weathered Reggie Yates with sallow bags beneath his eyes will present through cracking voice a documentary about "the disco-pop collaboration between Daft Punk and the Weeknd that changed the world".
David A. Taylor, a writer, and Andrea Kalin, a Washington filmmaker, have begun work on "American Voices," a documentary focusing on the Writers' Project in four states: New York, Florida, Illinois and Nebraska.
The report was subject to military censorship before publication.The same week the report came out, "Censored Voices", a documentary about the soldiers who fought in the six-day war, was shown in Israel, to powerful effect.
When Bon Iver's Justin Vernon turns up on Hold My Liquor, his singing is electronically warped until it sounds like it's been put through one of those voice changers documentaries and news shows use to preserve anonymity.
Roger and Me established Michael Moore as one of the most influential voices in documentary filmmaking.
Plenty of actors are willing to lend their voices to documentaries or informational programs in exchange for a paycheck, but Alan Alda is willing to lend his brain as well.
American writing on either side of the second millennium features a recurrent voice of laconic documentary.
In general, my dear Watson, leaving traces of the interviewer's actual speaking voice in a documentary is a gamble.
