Live singing in movie musicals
Live singing in movie musicals
#1Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:14pmWhat are some that come to mind? Most of The Producers songs come to mind.
#2re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:20pm
A Star is Born with Barbra... some bits of Funny Girl I believe... I actually think she did a LOT of live singing in her movies.
'Effie White is gonna win' in Dreamgirls
awful acapella reprise of 'something new' in High School Musical...
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:21pm
They don't do much live singing in film (None of the Producers was if I remember correctly), largely because the voice can't hold up to multiple takes. In fact, to my knowledge, "At Long Last Love" and the Bette Midler "Gypsy" are the only ones that did onset singing.
Fun Factoid:
"The Wizard of Oz" was the first movie to use the lipsync technique.
BDrischBDemented
Broadway Star Joined: 11/13/05
#3re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:23pm
Bette Midler in the TV movie "Gypsy".
...whoops, got beat.
#4re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:23pm
"Bette Midler "Gypsy" are the only ones that did onset singing. "
That's the only one that I could think of.
#5re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:29pmIdina Menzel's 'Over the Moon' in the RENT movie was done live on set.
#6re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:31pmI think Madonna's dying lament in EVITA was live as she talk/sung it unlike what is on the film soundtrack. Also that little bit after "Don't Cry For Me..." where she sings "just listen to that the voice of Argentina, we are adored, we are loved" sounds like it was sung on the set.
#7re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:33pmIn Across the Universe they were singing live.
#8re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:34pmAnother reason Is that one 5-minute number can be made up of dozens if not hundreds of takes and camera angles, shot over multiple days. Not only the energy levels, but also the variations in sound levels for each shot, outside noises, equipment sounds, etc.
Nonfreak
Chorus Member Joined: 2/14/06
#10re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:56pmthey did NOT sing live in Across the Universe, I worked on it. I t was prerecorded.
#11re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 12:56pm
I just posted about this in the "sound quality on Sweeney CD" thread.
All of Rex Harrison's singing in the film "My Fair Lady" was done live.
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#12re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:07pm
Susane Stromen said in the commentary "Because they could all sing well, we filmed everything live. After the fact, we decided whether we should use the soundtrack or the live."
Also.... I could tell "Miss Baltimore Crabs" was because of the way she said souflees (sp?). It was different in the cd then on the movie. Yes, I'm very observant.
#13re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:07pmParislover87- yes, Barbra always preferred to sing live for the camera instead of lip syncing.
#14re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:09pm
"All of Rex Harrison's singing in the film "My Fair Lady" was done live"
What singing?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#15re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:18pmI believe the singing in The Fantasticks was live.
#16re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:24pm
Lorrell's "Lorrell Loves Jimmy" was sung live during Dreamgirls.
Anika Noni Rose insisted.
#17re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 1:53pm
some of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" was live...
'Tear Me Down' was live
and maybe 'Angry Inch'?
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#18re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 2:04pm
90% of Across the Universe was sung live.
Akiva
#19re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 2:09pm
All of the vocals in Hedwig and the Angry Inch were live. Just the music was pre-recorded.
ETA: With the exception of Tommy's (Michael Pitt's) singing, which was actually done by Stephen Trask.
#20re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 2:15pm
SpellingBeeFan4Ever, Miss Baltimore Crabs was not sung live in the movie, it was just recorded differently multiple times.
I think Sweeney Todd was the first movie-musical I've seen in awhile that wasn't distracting because of the lip-synching- it was done very well.
#21re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 2:20pmLets hope Kerry Butler isnt EVER in a movie musical. She can't lipsync. Period.
MungoGypsy8232
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/8/07
#22re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 2:38pmummm, okay SpellingBeeFan4Ever? Kerry Butler can just sing live in a movie musical?
#23re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 3:11pmKiva: I ALREADY SAID THAT. HONESTLY.
#24re: Live singing in movie musicals
Posted: 12/24/07 at 3:31pm
Across the Universe??? Cant remember the vocals in the movie too clearly, but on the CD, the vocals sound more digitally sweetened than just about any other in my recent memory...
That's one I NEVER would has suspected being "live on set."
Updated On: 12/26/07 at 03:31 PM
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