Thanksgiving Day Parade - What did you think of what you saw? — Page 2

I agree I don't think its a big deal that they were lipsynching. Its really hard to sing while moving, and then when you're outside with all the other noise. We all know that they sing it during their actual shows, I don't think it matters.

i went with my mom's opinion on brooke's performance (she's not jaded about this stuff), she saw donna on the tonys doing the same number, her comment was "wait a minute isn't this the number that the way too old woman did so oddly on the awards show?, this way's better"

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tamyra gray and "shakalaka baby" was incredible .WOW!!!!

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I enjoyed the music for All Shook Up more than Good Vibrations, but the choreography for Good Vibrations, which was at best ok, was far superior. What I saw of the All Shook Up choreography completely lacked energy, athleticism, imagination, and vibrancy. It was way too simplistic given the music and period of the show and came off more as movement for non-dancers at a community theatre.

And who was that performing Shakalaka Baby in Bombay Dreams? That was AWFUL! There was no personality or charisma (of which Ayesha Dharker had LOADS) and I somehow don't believe there is a lot of R&B stylings in Hindi pop music. American Idolizing scores which are written stylistically to serve the setting does not work. At all. What's next? Clay Aiken starts riffing Music of the Night in Phantom? It's not the shows that are bringing Broadway down. It's the knuckle-headed stunt casting and lack of direction regarding replacements.

Brooke Shields made me want to see Wonderful Town. Previously, I had been indifferent to this production, but I was more impressed with her in the parade clip than Donna Murphy at the Tonys. Donna's vocal performance of Swing was too good to be believable in the story. Brooke's take is much more character appropriate.

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good vibrations made me want to kill myself- almost

loved rod/ john tartaglia to death.

bombay dreams: i love her voice, but not with that part or that show.

i missed fiddler, producers, brooklyn and all shook up

i thought it could not get worse after the silly little good vibrations. but it did- not with a b'way show but with the barbie number. hahaahah, that made me laugh for the longest time.

to me the highlight was wonderful town. based on parade performences only, i would see that over any of the others i saw

although i was sad to have missed fiddler and all shook up

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I went to the last part of the Parade with my Dad who was visiting from Pa. I taped the NBC coverage. My favorite part - Watching Raul Esparza wave to us from the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" car. Surprise. Surprise.

People mention "Brooklyn" but I don't remember seeing it during the parade telecast.

What's more bothersome than the lip synching is the stupid "cheering" track that NBC plays every year!!! You hear people cheering and then look at the audience on TV and they're not doing anything!!!

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Brooklyn was lipsyncing I think. It sounded the exact same as the websites. That was a little let down

hmm, I don 't know why I didn 't give my opinion o nthe other Parade threads, but, I was entertained by most of the performances. Shakalaka Baby has been stuck in my head now!! And Tamyra was beautiful Cheyenne is amazing of course but the blonde hair is bad. The Brooklyn song was great,k even if the show isn't.

By far the WORST performance was Wonderful Town. That song makes no sense!!!! "Gesuindheit! Thank you. You're Welcome!" Possibly the worst lyrics ever sung on Broadway. Ugh. Other than that I LOVED the Parade!

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Just sayin'...I don't think it's a horrible insult to a Broadway performer that he can't lip-synch. In fact, I'd find it more alarming if they looked like they had a lot of practice at it.

They all lip-synch in the parades. ALL of them.

Belle, I've seen some of your posts and thought I'd give you my $0.02--beyond what I've responded to on previous threads. I actually understood the lyrics BETTER with Brooke than Donna. I have the OCR with Donna and I still understood what Ruth says in "Swing" better live with Brooke. No one will argue that Brooke is a great singer, but she's fine and I think the spirit of her Ruth is a lot closer to what Roz Russell did. And I don't mean to take anything away from what Donna did, because she was simply stellar....but I don't think enjoying one doesn't mean you can't give the other a chance and perhaps appreciate it as well? I was SO pleasantly surprised by Brooke, that's all.

I didn't catch Brooke on the parade, so I cannot comment on her performance. However, as for Donna being to old for the role- Roz Russell was Donna's age when she played the role.

Thank you Mister Matt for explaining that the lyrics to "Swing" really do make sense. As a matter of fact, "hairbreadth Harry" was a comic strip character that Betty Comden read when she was a kid.

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