Sutton Foster, Jennifer Holliday & Idina Menzel Named Olympic-Sized Broadway Belters

On Friday, we asked you to imagine a dream scenario: an Olympic race in the category of Big Broadway Belting. We put 10 top-notch Tony-winning divas on the line-up asked who you to pick the best.

So who took home the gold? None other than Sutton Foster, who's been doing big Broadway belting in one blockbuster after the next. She first got our attention belting out the Star to Be solo in the 1997 revival of Annie ("Three bucks! Two bags! One me!"), then sang "On My Own," every belter's favorite soliloquy, in Les Miserables before belting and tapping her to way to a Best Actress Tony in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Since that smash success, Sutton's belting has kept on coming in diverse roles like Jo in Little Women, Janet in The Drowsy Chaperone, Inga in Young Frankenstein and Fiona in Shrek the Musical. Just to keep her pipes in check, she's also belted great Broadway tunes like "I'm the Greatest Star" and "I Know Him So Well" in all-star benefits and can currently be found showing off her Olympic skills in regional theaters coast-to-coast on her concert tour.

The lady who placed second in our poll, taking home our symbolic silver medal, is a belting legend. Jennifer Holliday became a Broadway star the night she opened on Broadway in 1981 as Effie Melody White in Dreamgirls. She put her legendary pipes to good use singing the Act One closer "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," winning herself a Tony Award, an R&B career and scores of passionate fans.

Speaking of great Act One closers, who can forget seeing Idina Menzel "flying" above the stage of the Gershwin Theatre while belting the heck out of "Defying Gravity" as the first Elphaba in Wicked? Not our readers, who awarded the Tony winner the bronze, making her our third-top belter. Other great belting roles include Maureen in Rent, Kate in The Wild Party, Sheila in Hair and Amneris in Aida.

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