THE WIZ: 2015 NBC LIVE MUSICAL- Page 72

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/10/15 at 4:18pm

What can you expect from someone who has a picture of Eva Braun as their avatar?

[haterobics]

Posted: 12/10/15 at 4:43pm

Reginald Tresilian said: "What can you expect from someone who has a picture of Eva Braun as their avatar?"

 

I think that's actually King George from Hamilton?

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 12/10/15 at 4:54pm

Oh Haterobics. Right over your head.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/10/15 at 5:40pm

The headband also has a sock account named JM226 so the hypocrisy is hysterical. 

 

Proof? 

[Hamilton22]

Posted: 12/10/15 at 5:44pm

Proof that I am all of these posters you have accused me of? I'll be waiting, dear. 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 1:34am

The album is NOT just the live performances! 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 1:34am

Double post. (Listening on Spotify still!)

Updated On: 12/11/15 at 01:34 AM

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 1:46am

He's the Wizard is the most painful update of the show, but it still sounds pretty good if you don't think of the funky original too hard. 

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 2:41am

I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that screenshot that Phyllis Roger Stone posted. it's like Velma Von Tussle from Hairspray came to life and started posting on these boards. LOL

figured that racistcaljen was a racist bitch all along. her last post in this thread should have ended with "Aaron Tveit is a whiter star."

Updated On: 12/11/15 at 02:41 AM

[darreyl102]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 2:50am

The Tracks are certainly different then the ones from the Live Performance

[smallvillefan16]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 2:53am

They fixed all the pitch problems that were in the live version. I like having a more professional [aka studio] version of these songs.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 2:54am

Yeah, the only NBC Live! album to have the actual live tracks was "Peter Pan", and it sounds terrible. I wish they studio recorded it. But "The Wiz" sounds fantastic! The prologue is weird, but this is definitely something I can see myself listening to on repeat for the next couple of months.

[darreyl102]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 2:57am

I think I like the Live Versions of 'He's The Wizard' and "No Bad News" better. Amber's held that growl note longer and it had a little more flavor to it  and MJB ended NBN better in the Live Version in my opinion. But I am LOVING the album!

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 3:00am

What I don't understand is why they took so long to release it? Because they recorded the vocals like two weeks before the production happened. You'd think it would have been mastered and done. If they had released it the day of, I have no doubt it would have gone number one on the iTunes charts. But now I don't see it breaking the top ten.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 3:22am

Since they did in fact pre-record it I too am unhappy it was so late.

[jwsel]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 3:55am

CindersGolightly said: "What I don't understand is why they took so long to release it? Because they recorded the vocals like two weeks before the production happened. You'd think it would have been mastered and done. If they had released it the day of, I have no doubt it would have gone number one on the iTunes charts. But now I don't see it breaking the top ten.

 

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Didn't Mary J. Blige join rehearsals really late, which is why we didn't get pictures of her in costume until well after we saw the other characters?  I doubt she would have recorded No Bad News before she began rehearsals, so that might have contributed to the delay.

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 4:03am

That could be it, but in the promos they used the studio recorded songs, so by the time the promos started airing, they should have been done with the recording.

[Mr. Nowack]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 4:17am

I am mixed on the soundtrack, as I was for the broadcast.

 

Queen Latifah's "So You Wanted To See The Wizard" was astoundingly better on record IMO. Other songs had too much auto-tune ("Ease On Down The Road" oy!). And some songs I loved in the broadcast fell flat without their visual counterparts.

 

Overall I am still just very sad that the arrangements are on the whole completely uninteresting and bland. I will stick to the OBC.

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 8:58am

A lot of it sounds too processed. Stephanie Mills doesn't need any auto tune. 

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 9:06am

I prefer Uzo's rawer live performance.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 9:36am

Listening to this again on good headphones makes the autotune really evident and grating. Completely unnecessary. I imagine I'll go back to the OBC next and every other time I want to hear this score...

Updated On: 12/11/15 at 09:36 AM

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 9:55am

The Prologue sounds like a cheesy teaser-intro to a Witt-Thomas sitcom in the '80s.

 

While I love the performances, I'm not crazy at all about the orchestrations. Generic, bland, sterile. Very "theme-park show" or even "game show theme."

[c0113g3b0y]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 10:25am

I'm with best12bars and a few other posters here regarding the orchestrations. They have lost their unique urban/ RnB/ soul vibe.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 10:57am

That's because Oremus did the orchestrations. No surprise there, sadly. 

[Danster]

Posted: 12/11/15 at 10:57am

Unfortunately I came to hate this show with a vengeance. All it did was cause everyone to get his feelings out about race. A musical that simply does not have place for people from a different race, and nowadays almost every show can be interracial including Les Miserables and The Sound of Music. Pity it went this way.