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| Posted by: NewtonUK 08:24 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: Mack & Mabel tonight. - Amiens 11:29 pm EST 02/19/20 | |
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| I agree that it was very hard to understand much of the dialogue and lyrics - Sills especially - but everyone. The sound designer, Kai Harada, is one of our best. FUN HOME and BANDS VISIT were his designs - so was HEAD OVER HEELS with the hideous blasting pre show music. Encores sound design usually falls to Scott Lehrer. There is no one working that can make these acoustic era shows sound acoustic - and crystal clear - like Scott can. He gets the sound, the aesthetic of these shows. Scott is doing PLAZA SUITE so was probably tied up out of town. Pity. MACK AND MABEL, like CANDIDE and MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG remains a great score in search of a book. |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: LynnO 09:55 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - NewtonUK 08:24 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| I was sitting on the left side of the orchestra and had no trouble hearing every word! | |
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| But the people behind you | |
| Posted by: dramedy 01:14 pm EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - LynnO 09:55 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| View was blocked by your ear trumpet bugle horn | |
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| Ha! | |
| Posted by: LynnO 01:52 pm EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: But the people behind you - dramedy 01:14 pm EST 02/20/20 | |
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| Yes, you know that I am deaf in one ear, but luckily my hearing aid isn’t quite as big as a horn!! Lol | |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: dlevy 09:51 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - NewtonUK 08:24 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| Mack and Mabel is from 1974, not exactly the "acoustic era." | |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 11:01 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - dlevy 09:51 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| I call it this, because for shows like this, with 'musical theatre' songs rather than pop.rock, the goal was (and still is often) to make the shows sound as they did when acoustic, just more clearly cleanly audible to the back row. Not much different than my first show on Broadway, FIORELLO, in 1960. They were using floor mics, and they just bumped the sound a bit - but you could still actually hear the artists. Scott Lehrer did a great job doing this on all teh R&H shows at Lincoln Center. I was actually recently pleasantly surprised at AMERICAN UTOPIA (Which I loved) that the sound was not screechingly loud - it was just right - and I heard every lyric clearly, while enjoying the music immensely. | |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 09:27 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - NewtonUK 08:24 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| I was sitting in Row E of the Grand Tier last night and heard every word of the lyrics and dialogue clearly. Not sure where the two posters were sitting last night. | |
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| I was in Row A of the Grand Tier, off-center house left. | |
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| Posted by: Amiens 09:49 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - lowwriter 09:27 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| For me the sound volume wasn't an issue. It was the garbling of words by Sills in dialogue and songs. | |
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| re: I was in Row A of the Grand Tier, off-center house left. | |
| Posted by: makemlaff 01:18 pm EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: I was in Row A of the Grand Tier, off-center house left. - Amiens 09:49 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| I agree completely about Sills being difficult to understand. Granted, the sound could have been better but it was mainly his vocal choices that kept me from understanding nearly anything he said or spoke. | |
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| re: I was in Row A of the Grand Tier, off-center house left. | |
| Posted by: lowwriter 10:20 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: I was in Row A of the Grand Tier, off-center house left. - Amiens 09:49 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| So I was sitting sitting in row E Grand Tier also house left and heard Sills perfectly. Is this an issue of where speakers are placed? | |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 08:52 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - NewtonUK 08:24 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| To totally digress for a second: Could not agree with you more, all three are book heavy. Candide, my perpetual windmill (sometimes I fancy myself a bit of Don Quixote) is better served by Hellman's book, which no question is imperfect. At least her tone and Bernstein's score are in sync, while Wheeler's (RIP) is cartoonish in a way that Bernstein is decidedly not. |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 09:12 am EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - Snowysdad 08:52 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| I always wondered what would have happened if Tom Stoppard was ever asked to do a revised book. | |
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| re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) | |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 06:04 pm EST 02/20/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Mack & Mabel tonight (re the Sound) - NewtonUK 09:12 am EST 02/20/20 | |
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| Interesting thought. It couldn't have been worse than Wheeler's. | |
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