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re: Yeah and if someone were to a produce a sitcom or drama...

Posted by: Chromolume 12:01 am EST 01/17/15
In reply to: Yeah and if someone were to a produce a sitcom or drama... - DistantDrumming 11:23 pm EST 01/16/15
It's so odd to see someone sing a big showstopper and then there's just nothing. Silence.

Though if you think about it, that's the same as watching a movie musical at home. You might applaud if you were watching the film with a full audience in a movie theatre, but that's the reaction of the live crowd watching the film, not the reaction of anyone IN the film. But in that case, the applause of the audience in the movie theatre would be sufficient to "fill the gap" that's actually in the movie - applause is applause, no matter where it comes from.

If NBC did these as HD film presentations (like the Met or the National Theatre) there might be a spark for applause at the end of songs, even if there wasn't an audience actually on the soundstage. But how many of us tend to applaud the ends of songs in our living rooms, studio audience or not???


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