| 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. |
