lip synching — Page 3

you can not tell me MC's long note in the 2nd act of DOTV wasnt pre-recorded... i saw the show 2 times and one of those times, his mouth was half closed while singing...while the minsk was half full..

Also Mamma Mia, I know from first hand seeing the show with some members of this board together one night the sweetner track during "gimme gimme gimme" went wrong and it kept going "gimme gimme gimme gimme gimme a man man man man man man man" and the cast stopped singing and kind of looked around clueless...it also happened another time during "voulez vous" people involved with the show should also know to change the finale for u/s so you dont hear Pitre during "Dancing Queen"..

I think Hairspray might even use "sweetner" tracks for "you cant stop the beat"... it's so the actors can sound flawless when they are dancing as well (as stated in posts above).

Rumor has it... that the sponge was up for a Special Tony... Michael found out and threated to fire it!!!

Craig- For the record, broadwayguy2 and I are busy playing cards. We had nothing to do with this last comment.

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**looks over cards at Craig** he speaks the truth....

**puts cards on table** Full House.

Updated On: 1/4/04 at 11:19 PM

is this thread still about lip or live singing? .... Lipsynching is not a #1 choice. But, hey it's part of the business, just like other tech. choices. I'd rather enojy a production that has a little lip when needed than walk out thinking the show was weak.

Now...if we're talking about a major solo number, get someone in there who has the chops and can do the job. But if it's an occassional ensamble song or a scene that requires a lot of action and strong vocals, get the job done right whatever it takes.

Unmiked music is for productions on a shoestring or a piano bar.

Oh! and as far a DOVT, two of my buds were in this stinker and I told them both it just wasn't "sponge worthy". And 99% of it was live!

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Updated On: 1/5/04 at 12:15 AM

whoever said that hairspray's *you can't stop the beat* has a track was correct...because everyone onstage (including the leads) are dancing (full out) they use the track because that song is so hard to understand and doesn't sound good if it is not fully supported and articulated (which is difficult while doing that big dance number). It makes sense though, considering that 3 of the principle characters are overweight (tracy, edna, and motormouth maybelle) and one is like, 70 (wilbur).

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Well they had to sing it at one time to at least have it on tape to lip sync to so you are still hearing them "perform" not like Milli Vinilli :)

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Phantom05, how did you get the sheet music for DOTV? Id love to get my hands on it.