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NEVERWHERE ruined

Posted by:	NeoAdamite 12:33 am EST 11/04/15
In reply to:	Recorded music at community theatre - vegas 10:24 pm EST 11/03/15

The show is using recorded music rather than live musicians. The problem with prerecorded music (besides the aesthetic and ethical ones) is that it puts performers into a straitjacket. NEVERWHERE (at New World Stages), for example, was ruined by the performers having to pay constant attention to an orchestra that wouldn't follow them. As a result the whole thing became just a little bit boring. (All the reviews noticed the tendency to boredom, but nobody recognized the musical problem.) I say 'ruined' because I believe the show would have attracted twice the audience even with only piano, bass, and drums, or piano and violin.

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re: NEVERWHERE ruined

Posted by:	MockingbirdGirl 12:59 am EST 11/04/15
In reply to:	NEVERWHERE ruined - NeoAdamite 12:33 am EST 11/04/15

NEVERWHERE... was ruined by the performers having to pay constant attention to an orchestra that wouldn't follow them. It's not really the role of the orchestra to "follow" the singers (and the larger the pit, the more difficult it would be to effect that, anyway). Rather, it's for the conductor, not the stage performers, to set the tempi.

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