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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: Greg_M 02:25 pm EST 11/03/15
In reply to: re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - StanS 02:14 pm EST 11/03/15

I love the film of "My Fair Lady" and I love Hepburn, but like you, every time Marni Nixon voice comes on I feel there is a hole in the story - the dubbing isn't a good match.

Listening to Audrey's vocals/with piano give a more satisfying reading of the show. True Audrey isn't a soprano and can't get above a high C, but her readings are funnier and charming.

I would love for the film to be issued with moist of Audrey's voice and a little dubbing by someone who sounds like her


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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:16 pm EST 11/03/15
In reply to: re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - Greg_M 02:25 pm EST 11/03/15

"I would love for the film to be issued with most of Audrey's voice and a little dubbing by someone who sounds like her."

I can't agree with you on that. Audrey's surviving vocals are very difficult to listen to from a purely musical standpoint, however good they may be in terms of acting. I think she might have been able to handle a lot of the score if they had brought the keys way down, but I guess they didn't want to do that. She does sound quite lovely in those two lines she sings at the beginning of "I Could Have Danced All Night."

Something else that takes me out of the movie is that the match between Jeremy Brett's speaking voice and the voice of the performer who dubbed his singing is extremely poor, in my opinion. And in the cases of both Hepburn and Brett, as well as Stanley Holloway, some of the lip-synching in the film is very sloppy.

I've been re-watching a lot of MY FAIR LADY in the Blu-Ray release, and my feelings about it remain the same: A great deal of it is very beautifully done, but every few minutes, some major flaw crops up, and as these flaws continue, they keep taking me out of the movie. I do wish those in charge had been more meticulous, but honestly, I don't think Cukor was that kind of a director when it came to matters other than acting.


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re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name?

Posted by: Greg_M 06:41 pm EST 11/03/15
In reply to: re: Do Movie Musicals Give Musicals a Bad Name? - Michael_Portantiere 03:16 pm EST 11/03/15

I would believe using many of the tricks of auto tune type programs and finding a better voice match would combine to make a decent musical performance that would sound like Audrey - of course it would never sound like it was written, but at least it would keep me in the film when ever Eliza sings. I know we were able to do many tricks with weak voices in the mixing stage.

I'm guessing Michael, you have heard the piano tracks of Audrey floating around - even that version of "Loverly" sounds better than the one on the DVD


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