Thanksgiving Day Parade Performance Thread - Page 3

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:07am

Liked the overweight guys for a change of pace.

 

Chubby chasers take note!  Roxy digs the bears.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:07am

Hamilton22 said: "People started sniffing their farts about the Wiz way longer than I have about Fiddler. And at least my criticisms of Fiddler are warranted because many people have seen it. No one has seen hardly anything of The Wiz and it's already a crap show? lol okay people.

 

And I'm warming up to Fiddler because of the god notices it's getting. 

 

"

 

You know that the Fiddler previews thread is still around, right? And that we can all go back and check it and know that what you've just said isn't true. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:08am

One or two especially "light" black or Asian performers, it looked like. But the contrast in melanin was much lower than it usually is.

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:12am

The Sprout performance made me wish Spring Awakening was represented. 

Andra Day was fantastic, shining through the terrible filming and proving that a simple, straightforward performance can still work. It doesn't have to be all spectacle and cutting from camera to camera.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:28am

On Your Feet  and Finding Neverland were meh. Fiddler on the Roof was freaking excellent, it seems that Hofesh Schecter has found a way to do his own thing while paying respect for Jerome Robbins the same way that Christopher Gattelli did for The King and I (which was perfection here as it was on stage). Something Rotten and The Wiz Live! were pretty good too.

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:33am

Aside from Mary J. Blige's acting, I think the commercial did a better job of selling The Wiz Live! than the parade performance. School of Rock was OK. I didn't see what people have been seeing in Brightman and the performance seemed short.

[VintageSnarker]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 11:42am

I'm so ready to see Jennifer Nettles on stage again.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:00pm

I thought Fiddler looked GREAT! My son was taken by it ,too....adding it to his short list of shows.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:03pm

We keep saying it should be a Kelly Clarkson vehicle but what about a "Annie Get Your Gun" revival with Jennifer Nettles?

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:37pm

What a morning for Barlett Sher....has a director ever had two shows perform on the parade in one year before?

[BOM]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:39pm

Did school of Rock ever perform? Only thing I was interested in watching.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:40pm

That is interesting. Are the original directors of shows usually involved in helping direct the television performances. I would understand why he would be involved with the fiddler performance since they are in previews, but the king and I has asociate directors that can do it too.

[MaddieBB12]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 12:46pm

Even if he wasn't, it s still is his production and his name is on it, so I see no reason for him not be at least a little involved. 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 1:14pm

BOM said: "Did school of Rock ever perform? Only thing I was interested in watching."

 

They were on one of the floats, so they performed later in the broadcast once the floats started making it to Herald Square. I want to say they were maybe around 11:00? (I was busy cooking so while I saw it I wasn't paying attention to what time it was). They did one of the songs that was interpolated from the movie.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 2:31pm

Hasn't the "Believe" number been so overexposed it looks like what it was today: a synergistic attachment to the already oversold Macy's?  The pan up to that Believe! over the store was a new low.

 

"On Your Feet" will sell tickets, however.    

[Joviedamian]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 2:45pm

Have they released any other footage (Full performances) yet? I did not get a chance to see the parade and would love to view all the performances.

 

Also, didn't HAMILTON perform on the CBS broadcast? Which is why it couldn't perform on Macy's!

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 3:29pm

No, Hamilton didn't/doesn't need to perform on any of the broadcasts.

[UnwoundFantasies]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 4:00pm

Hamilton didn't perform at all but Renee Elise Goldsberry made an appearance on CBS

Bart Sher was at both Fiddler and King and I rehearsals this morning and earlier this week. 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 4:01pm

Renée Elise Goldsberry sat in with the hosts of the CBS broadcast and was her usual radiant self as she talked and talked and talked about Hamilton.

[Starship]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 4:07pm

Did anybody catch Cirque's PARAMOUR performance? Was it any good?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 5:21pm

It was the exact same float they used last year, with the exact same acrobatics, and a lip-synched performance of the title song from "Paramour."

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 6:34pm

To those of you griping about the lip synching, you need to realize that it would be impossible to do live recordings under those circumstances.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 6:37pm

Why don't they film the performances inside like CBS does then?!

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 8:27pm

I don't complain about the lip-synching because I think it should be performed live (or could be); I vent because it's often poor lip-synching.  When it's under-rehearsed, or the number's demands are a bad fit for the technique, it renders the performances as artificial and flat. I think it's important to note that lip-synching can be effective and can be awful. And everything in between.  It's a given that it's required. The gripe is with the execution.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/26/15 at 8:33pm

^^^ He nailed exactly what I didn't even know I was thinking.