One of them was Marc Anthony, whose singing career took off when he started recording in Spanish for RMM Records.
Mr. Tambor, whose singing voice can currently be heard in the Disney feature "Tangled," will be making his musical debut on Broadway in "La Cage".
Ms. Sullivan, whose singing stretches from a hard, bright Fanny Brice imitation to a fluttery semi-operatic register, flavors everything with a tongue-in-cheek attitude of wonder.
If good old Rosie, whose singing voice is only average and dancing skills dubious, could star in a Broadway musical, why not you or me?
But when MGM made "Show Boat" into a movie for the second time, in 1951, the role of Julie was given to a white actress, Ava Gardner, whose singing voice was dubbed.
The catalyst was Yannick Noah, whose playing career was all but over and whose singing career was just beginning and who proved to be an exceptional captain and cheerleader in chief.
The previous day, at the east Belfast church that is mentioned in his song On Hyndford Street, Morrison had performed that number and two others at the funeral of his 94-year-old mother, whose singing talent he inherited.
Ms. Pettiford portrays Billie's mother, Lillian Frank, whose singing performance in a nondescript bar sets the plot rolling when she summons her talented little girl (Isabel Gomes as the young Billie) to join her at the mike.
Set in 18th-century Naples, this Dutch work of fiction revolves around a love affair between a castrato whose singing leaves his listeners in tears and a young noblewoman eager for instruction in both sex and music.
There's the traditional, happily rounded story of wicked Queen of Spades luridly played by Lucille Gaye versus the marriage of sweet Princess Miranda (Colette Gleeson) with the nice Prince Damian (Peter Gee) whose singing comes like an emotional thunderbolt.
In the film version of the show that secured her stardom, "One Touch of Venus," the part of the goddess went to Ava Gardner, whose singing voice had to be dubbed.
