Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
RW3
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/13
#1Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 9:43pm
Post your thoughts of the performances here!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 9:56pm
I hope it inspires a spin-off series, "Understudies Lip-Synch!".
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#3Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 10:10pm
Looking forward to Fiddlers performance. And I hope Finding Neverland does something different for a change. They always do Believe or Stronger. They should take a chance and do Something About This Night or Play or something.
#4Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 10:11pm
^From rehearsal coverage, it seems they'll be doing Believe.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#6Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 10:18pm
Why do they not sing live again?
#7Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 10:22pm
^ For logistical reasons. They would sound awful, which is not good for selling tickets.
#8Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/25/15 at 11:42pm
"Believe" is the best number in the show so it makes sense they pump it up.
Who else is performing?
#9Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:07am
I prefer play. That's just me I guess.
UnwoundFantasies
Leading Actor Joined: 10/13/11
#10Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 1:52am
King and I is doing getting to know you
#11Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 2:16am
Nbc is the best channel to watch right?
#12Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 5:28am
^ Yes.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#13Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 6:45am
It's not that I don't enjoy "Believe" but they have done it so many times now on many different talk shows. I would assume though that the producers didn't want to perform any songs with Frohman/Hook, since they are trying to now advertise Kelsey Grammer's return to the roles, and not confuse anyone with Terrence Mann in the parade.
Broadway Joe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/15/10
#14Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:13am
On your feet made me never want to see the show.
woeisme3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/14/15
#15Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:40am
Fiddler came off rather well.
#16Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:41am
Fiddler had the best lip syncing so far. That choreography is insanely good.
#17Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:44am
The Fiddler chores looks a bit frenetic. I'm wondering if Hamilton has encouraged other productions to kick it up a notch.
Also, I haven't seen Finding Netherland, but I thought it was a nice touch at the end for the camera to pan up the side of the Macy's building to show the word Believe.
bfreak
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/6/11
#18Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:44am
On Your Feets performance sucked. I never will see that. The King and I, Neverland, and Something Rotten were all good but we've seen it before. Oh my God though, Fiddler blew me away. I am so excited to see this. It looked amazing.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#19Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:49am
Fiddler blew you away? It's the same number that's done in every high school every year in almost the exact same way...
The wiz showed me what high school show choirs are now doing. That choreo was awful.
massofmen
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/10/04
#20Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:54am
That was actually a great Rockett performance. I felt like it was a modernized version of it for some reason. Nice job rockettes.
#21Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:54am
Are the Rockettes totally white now?
#22Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 9:56am
I feel like choreography for The Wiz weighs behind vocals and what Cirque du Soleil is going to bring to the show (which we didn't see here). I'm expecting a great show next Thursday.
#23Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 10:02am
ScoreCard at 2/3 mark on a scale from 1-10 ( with 10 being top)
*5 -ON YOUR FEET- Generic yet energetic opening that tells you nothing of the show. Showing the last thrilling 10 minutes of the show is surely misrepresentative of the rest of the show
*10-THE KING & I- Perfection.
*5 -FINDING NEVERLAND- Been there, done it. It seems the show has been playing for 3 years already.
*7- SOMETHING ROTTEN- Great number that theatre purists will ”get” and enjoy. Out of context it's just another fun number.
*10- FIDDLER ON THE ROOF- Great choice for the excitement factor alone. Loved the fresh movement by the new choreographer.
*4- THE WIZ- Is Debbie Allen back? #HideousLooking
*10-ROCKETTES- On their mark!
#24Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 10:04am
I thought The Wiz looked awful. The choreography was surprisingly old fashioned. I've said from the beginning it's a terrible musical. It has some great songs and some awful songs. The book is a disaster. I don't think they solved any of the problems from what I saw. The girl playing Dorothy looks like she is 30 years old. I don't know how old she really is.
I DID think the dancing on Fiddler was really wonderful. Wasn't sure of the new look for Lazar. It's Fiddler. It may have a few changes but you can't "reimagine" Fiddler. It's locked in. And it's a great show, one of the best.
musicaltheatrechick
Understudy Joined: 8/17/15
#25Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread
Posted: 11/26/15 at 10:06am
Did School of Rock perform already?
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