Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
bwaybri2
Featured Actor Joined: 6/11/08
MamasDoin'Fine
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/28/08
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#2re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 10:54amAs long as I have been watching, they always have been.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#3re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:03am
Due to the logistics of the location and other outdoor elements, ALL of the Broadway musicals that perform on Herald Square at the parade lip-sync to a pre-recorded track. Its always been this way for the exact same reason.
#4re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:04am
Yup.
They're usually horribly lipsync'd, but this year I thought everyone did a really good job. Especially Lin Manuel.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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Zeitoujo
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/3/06
#5re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:13amDid Idina lipsynch?
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PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#6re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:36amAll the performers on the floats do also, so yeah, Idina did.
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pushdabutton
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#7re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:42amLin Manuel Miranda was great as was the rest of the cast. It's just too bad we didn't hear more of them. I really wish it was the full song with more interaction with the cast.
PiraguaGuy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/10/08
#8re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 11:44am$96,000 would have been so much better. The cut-down version of the opening doesn't do it for me.
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teka21
Leading Actor Joined: 12/19/06
#9re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 12:22pmJames Taylor (on a float) played guitar and sang live- the only one.
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#11re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 12:47pmthe WHITE CHRISTMAS cast must've been happy to perform in that winter gear!
#12re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 12:50pm
Did Idina lipsynch?
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Of course, did you hear her gasp.
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#13re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 1:08pm
anyone remember the hilarity of wicked's performance a few years back? (Cheno completely forgot to mouth a line)
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#14re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 1:56pm
"One Short Day" at the MACY'S Thanksgiving Day Parade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HWewyrEJsM
Updated On: 11/27/08 at 01:56 PM
#15re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:25pm"The URL contained a malformed video ID"
You're reminding me of people you hear at the movies asking questions every ten seconds, "Who is that? Why is that guy walking down the street? Who's that lady coming up to him? Uh-oh, why did that car go by? Why is it so dark in this theater?" - FindingNamo on strummergirl
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
"If artists were machines, then I'm just a different kind of machine...I'd probably be a toaster. Actually, I'd be a toaster oven because they're more versatile. And I like making grilled cheese" -Regina Spektor
"That's, like, twelve shows! ...Or seven." -Crazy SA Fangirl
"They say that just being relaxed is the most important thing [in acting]. I take that to another level, I think kinda like yawning and...like being partially asleep onstage is also good, but whatever." - Sherie Rene Scott
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#16re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:31pmwhat line did she not mouth?
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#17re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:31pmOmg Kristin an that AWFUL jacket her butt reminds me of the Old Woman from Candide
#18re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:32pmIs it really that hard to type in "Wicked thanksgiving parade?" I looked at a video and watched Kristin through the whole thing and didn't notice her missing a line. What part was it?
#19re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:41pmYeah, what line?
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#20re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:43pm
There was no completely forgotten missed line. She is about a half a second late when she says "two best friends" at the end.
Your fupa is showing.
Updated On: 11/27/08 at 02:43 PM
LuPonatic
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/06
#21re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 2:56pmI was really impressed with the lipsyncing this year. Young Frankenstein last year was kind of weird.
BwayBaby18
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/19/05
#22re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 3:04pmA lot of the videos on Youtube have changed the ending and laid the recording over the two best friends part. It took me like three videos to find the correct one with Cheno starting late.
#23re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 3:30pmDid this happen already? I wanted to watch it. Dammit.
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Byron Abens
Broadway Star Joined: 7/17/08
#24re: Macy's Bway Shows are lipsynced right?
Posted: 11/27/08 at 4:46pmI remember many years ago when the cast of Chicago did "Both Reached for the Gun" when Marilu Henner took over for Anne Reinking. It became blatantly obvious that they were lip syncing when Roxie's "Are you kidding?" was Anne Reinking's voice and not anything that sounded remotely like Marilu.
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