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Didn't look like anyone was lip-synching to me. I think some of the editing was off. Some of the shots used to "cover" didn't quite match, so audio and video weren't in synch. This sometimes happens in a quick edit (I only really noticed this with "Millie").

Also, didn't think Idina was screaming. With the edit, you were pretty much getting the big ending of the song. It was a highlight for me.

Thought the "Taboo" number was much better on the broadcast. Didn't really land the day of the event. Benefitted from the intimacy of TV.

I like this message board much better than some of the other (nastier) ones. Can we be nice to each other, perhaps?

It WAS pretty amazing how much of the numbers were sliced to bits.

I wonder if this bite-sized Broadway should have even been broadcast. It didn't do any of the shows any favors.

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Kerry was hideous. Sorry, but she was really, really off key. Perhaps it was the editing that made it appear people were lipsynching. I particularly noticed it when Sutton closed her mouth earlier than her voice stopped.

Al Dente-
NO ONE LYPSYINCED! I was there live and can assure you everyone sang live. You really dont have a clue. Get the facts before you post :)

Yeah, "misguided, youthful passion" really sucks.

Just wait 'till you lose it completely and become jaded and dead inside, like some of us...

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I don't think NBC was trying to insult, simply just point out some flaws with you. Kind of like how there are flaws with Little Shop of Horrors. NBC was merely stating his(or her..) opinion. This was not meant to personally bash you, just point out some flaws. Of course, the only miracle that could happen here is you be re-cast and replaced by Alice Ripley...

No, no, no.. Alice can't playy a character THAT bitter, jaded, and cynical.

How about Kerry Butler since she is Al's favorite actress.

::ducks to avoid Al's fist::

Al Dente obviously has something against Kerry Butler beyond her performance.

Benzy, you have to KNOW someone to have something for OR "against" them. I've never even met the lady outside of a stage door. WHY, OH WHY, when someone isn't *afraid* to call out a performance, as less than brilliant, and life changing, is it ALWAYS because, the poster MUST "have something against the actor(Kerry) personally"? Hmm? Could it be that she's just NOT very good? I'm THRILLED that she's NOT a friend or collegue. I wouldn't know WHAT to say to her, if she asked me my honest opinion. I'm NO actor, so I would fail miserably at being upbeat about a deadbeat performance. Get it through your head, "it's not you i'm angry at Helga, it's the DIRT"!

Let me take a second and say that, one of the main reasons I was so excited about LSOH being brought back and to Broadway is that I "KNEW" it would be a chance for a great, big, broadway actress to sink her teeth into the role and really go for it....well,I was wrong..Alice Ripley, interesting, saw her perform the role, very much like Ellen Greene(saw her too!),wonderfully sung/too much in EG shadow...saw an upstart regional production in Atlantic City(LOVED IT!)...Elizabeth Maurer played the role, amazing actress, a solid singer, enjoyed her take...understood they'd never hire an "unknown" for the Broadway mounting(sadly)..so went back to hoping a major star would tackle it...(Andrea McArdle/Mira Sorvino(don't laugh)..or Rachel York..instead I got Kerry Butler, a second string Audrey from a third string performer...thanks Mr.Telsey. Oh, and I don't dislike her as a person at all.

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Sheekala

Can you please define "third string performer" and what that means exactly?

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Oh and Mel...what do you guys think?

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Updated On: 6/13/20 at 07:31 PM