lip synching

after learning that the title song of POTO is lip synched, what other shows lip synch? i know mamma mia does it in the end, what other shows? hehe im jus curious! =D

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The cast of Mamma Mia! lipsyncs at the end? Well I'll be damned. I honestly couldn't tell and I was in the front row of the mezz. Learn something new everyday..

Ya...someone told me there are too many sound issues in the Mamma Mia finale.

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Mamma Mia -- they sing along.. not technically lipsyinc..

and yes, they record it beforehand......

and the intellegencia of theatre audiences around the world are making MAMA MIA the number 1 musical?

These are the dark days on the planet Earth.

Yours for live singing on Broadway (an no body mikes)!

This was absolutely the first thing I noticed while watching MAMA MIA! and the main reason I can't recommend it to anyone. It is PRE-RECORDED! The vocals are so layered and "mixed," even when only two or three people are "singing" (e.g., "Dancing Queen") that there is no missing it. I thought I should have just gone to a good drag show for free at a bar where they lip-sync and it would probably be more entertaining. There were times when the cast would gamely sing along and then other times when they didn't. I thought that wow, when you're in MAMA MIA! you only have to sing when you feel like it. If you don't the audience will hear the pre-recorded vocals anyway! How nice. How freakin' lazy! What a huge JOKE of a "live" performance. As Bulldog says, dark days.....

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Updated On: 1/3/04 at 09:40 AM

Probably more shows use 'click tracks' than you wish to know about. This has been going on for years. I remember years ago in Barnum they had 11 tracks that were mimed.
In Phantom the big note that Christine does (in the title song) is mimed. Mamma Mia it is so obvious that much is mimed. Often in shows it is during numbers where the cast is moving around a lot and so that lyrics can be heard and understood, parts of songs are pre recorded, and the cast will sing over the tracks to give a bigger sound.

Dreamgirls had moments of click tracks (the payola "steppin' steppin' steppin'" section of "Stepping to the Bad Side" and parts of the Act Two opening) but the cast does sing on top of these pre-recorded vocals as well.

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What about Liza, the click track queen?

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Well lets not forget Dance of the Vampires, and Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria. And the tapping in 42nd St is click tracked.

I personally would rather have trouble hearing somebody sing then have them lypsinc! I do know that Mamma Mia has a mic booth backstage...that is where the "back up vocals" come from. The ensemble is really singing that backstage.

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I've gotta say it...Chinkie. Do you go out of your way to write in a way that is unreadable? You might be saying something interesting, but who the hell can tell?

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Then you have the foreign production of RENT that cast some famous supermodel that couldn't sing as "Maureen", and she had to lip sync her numbers. Ugh.

For once I agree with Broadway Bulldog, here's to a lip sync-less Broadway