HAIRSPRAY is next NBC Musical... — Page 40

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This just came across my mind .... Do you all think Orfeh or Laura Bell would have made a good Velma

This just came across my mind .... Do you all think Orfeh or Laura Bell would have made a good Velma

Who? Exactly. Every lead NBC cast is a recognized personality. Some more known than others but still recognizable to the general public. Orfeh and Laura Bell Bundy are only known to the hard-core Broadway audiences. Even the average Broadway audience has no idea who either lady is.

If you have a service provider like DirecTV, Dish, Comcast, you can use your login credentials at www.nbc.com/live to watch "Countdown to Hairspray" at 7:30/6:30 cst and the Live broadcast at 8/7 cst.

BrodyFosse123 said: "This just came across my mind .... Do you all think Orfeh or Laura Bell would have made a good Velma

Who? Exactly. Every lead NBC cast is a recognized personality. Some more known than others but still recognizable to the general public. Orfeh and Laura Bell Bundy are only known to the hard-core Broadway audiences. Even the average Broadway audience has no idea who either lady is.



" I have to disagree with no one knowing who LBB is . She's been on television since 96 . Also every lead cast is not a recognized personality . Both The wiz & hairspray have cast members that are not easily recognized . They both also casted new comers as top lead roles

SO excited for this tonight!! A few hours of distraction at the end of the semester.

Just purchased the DVD. So far, sound seems to have been fixed and/or amped up a bit (including when it dropped during GMB on the live airing). Dialogue is more audible than it was before.

No bonus features, unlike the previous NBC musical DVDs which included the making-of documentaries that originally aired a week before.

"New Girl in Town" was indeed in the broadcast in the same place it does in the show's underscore (I noticed it during the live airing) and it has been amped up, also, for the DVD.

"Mama" has been balanced and improved. Portions of the song from the final chorus to Dove's "watch me fly" seem to be from a dress rehearsal because there's no spotlight hiccup. Looks and sounds great.

None of the Darren's across interactions are there and the show flows so much better. And of course, without commercials it does also.

Still watching... It's much more enjoyable to watch without the anxiousness of watching it live and hoping everything went as they planned, if that makes sense.

I really hope that any network that continues to do this has or will consider the possibilty of actually doing the shows in a theatre with a live audience. The way we saw Into The Woods, Sunday in the Park, and even more recently like South Pacific, Legally Blonde, etc. someone made the comment to me sometime last week that these end up looking like live TV movies and that people would be able to get more of a theatrical experience if it is all produced and staged as it would have been as a stage production. I'm sure a live audience for that would be forgiving if there's like a man with a steady cam walking all across the stage trying to get close-ups. LOL.

Updated On: 12/20/16 at 04:25 PM

Distributors have been known to "update" the digital version with the home video version in instances like this and other live shows, but it's not a consistent thing. I prefer digital iTunes copies for nearly everything else but I have all of the NBC musicals and Grease Live on DVD, and even Fox's Rocky Horror which at least has some bonus features and the deleted song.