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The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#150
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:44pm
That was great, the best of the NBC shows. Hope the ratings are good it deserves it. Shanice's performance sold me in the end, entire cast were pretty great. :)
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#151
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:44pm
Wow, I have very little recollection of seeing Uzo is that travesty of a Godspell revival.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#152
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:45pm
Should we assume Shanice will reprise the role on Broadway??
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#153
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:45pm
Tony and Grammy winner and someone I know, Stephen Oremus is the best orchestrator, conductor, and arranger we have.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#154
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:46pm
The ending seemed....abrupt. I was thinking there was going to be another scene when coming back from the commercial break.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#155
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:47pm
WOW WOW WOW!!!!
Uzo's believe in yourself was amazing!!!! And home sounded amazing to!!!
i want hear Uzo sing rested body now!!!
Updated On: 12/3/15 at 10:47 PM
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#156
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:48pm
I predict the 4 leads all go to Broadway.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#157
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:49pm
I really enjoyed it. The camera work was the only major disappointment for me. The camera wirk seemed to be similar to that of The Voice or some other lame TV talent contest. It deserved to be filmed better.
I am so glad that they didn't really sick to the dream motif too strictly.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#158
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:49pm
My own personal pet peeve..no credits for the musicians..that's just sad. Everyone else listed but them...humph.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#159
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:50pm
I don't think the problem with sound had anything to do with Stephen Oremus's work, it would have been who ever is mixing the broadcast.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/05
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#160
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:50pm
Musicaljen missed out on something quite good.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#161
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:52pm
Well... This is indeed a VAST improvement over the previous two live productions NBC has thrown for us. There is not a Carrie Underwood or Christopher Walken performance in the entire show, everyone has been wonderfully cast who can act and sing. I can't wait to see if Shanice will reprise her role as Dorothy for the upcoming Broadway revival and what other changes they will do from small screen to stage.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#162
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:53pm
"My own personal pet peeve..no credits for the musicians..that's just sad. Everyone else listed but them...humph"
Post of the night!
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#163
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:53pm
Has Diana Ross commented?
Updated On: 12/3/15 at 10:53 PMThe WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#164
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:57pm
I wish Uzo had more to do! she was perfect in the part and sounded amazing!!!! I wanted more of her!!!!
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#165
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:57pm
Calling a live television show is difficult. Specially with twele cameras. The reason The Sound of Music's camera work was so good, they had Beth McCarthey as Television director. She directed SNL for I thin 12 years and was well versed in calling live TV. Not sure what these last two TV directors have done but since there is really NO live TV I don't think their backgrounds are as extensive as Beth's
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#166
Posted: 12/3/15 at 10:58pm
It wasn't perfect, but to me, it was very fun. And truthfully, sometimes I enjoy a show that isn't deep and makes you contemplate everything. Sometimes you just want the fun and pretty colors.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#167
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:00pm
Overall it was a bore. In the hands of a Michael Bennett or Jack O'Brien or Casy Nicholaw - it would be crackled and sizzled like the Sun - the reality was more like an eclipsed Moon. The music challenged the vocal ranges of all the singers, especially The Wiz - no belters here and no excitement in the vocals. Nice set, beautiful costumes, awkward staging and they were challenged in acting - blunt, not quick and heavy like a boulder - David Alan Grier gave the best performance - the wigs and facial hair - not great design - lots of glue could be seen and there was no real design per se - no thought and/or fit to the individual wearing them. It was not as bad as Sound of Music, but was equal to it in the direction and acting and transitions. It didn't do the musical justice and the new "updated" dialogue.,and I paraphrase:.."you think you are Eddie Murphy" if that is the best Harvey can do he needs to pack up his own ruby slippers and walk the walk of shame back home.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/27/04
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#168
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:00pm
What an awful script and such unimaginative staging. That needed more than "new writing" . I was hopeful a fresh look at the material would produce something interesting but I found it pretty dull except for Stephanie Mills Aunt Em.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#169
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:05pm
Musical Master said: "There is not a Carrie Underwood or Christopher Walken performance in the entire show, everyone has been wonderfully cast who can act and sing."
I think Common was the weakest actor of the night.
behindthescenes2, how can you say that about the vocals?? Some of this singing was fantastic.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#170
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:08pm
The insanely tight camera work and bland design came so close to destroying the whole thing, but the performances were strong enough to shine through. Really wonderful company. Across the board, great work. I hope to see this cast on Broadway, but I hope the producers take a good look at what makes this different from doing an MGM-based Wizard of Oz in aesthetic terms. The costumes were mostly good. Fierstein's script was really disastrous. Self-indulgent psychoguessing on one hand and dated this-is-black-right? references on the other. That Eddie Murphy reference...God. I enjoyed it by sheer force of the wonderful cast. They really worked hard, and it really paid off.
Updated On: 12/3/15 at 11:08 PMThe WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#171
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:09pm
Sucks we have to wait a week for the soundtrack.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#172
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:10pm
At the end of the broadcast they said it was now available?
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#173
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:11pm
Scarywarhol said: "At the end of the broadcast they said it was now available?"
I was super confused about that.
The WIZ LIVE : post your comments and thoughts live during the show here#174
Posted: 12/3/15 at 11:11pm
Only the single of HOME is available. Would have made much more sense to release the full soundtrack tonight with all of the momentum.
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