| re: Recorded tracks for Musicals? |
| Posted by: jbronsto 09:26 pm EDT 04/12/20 |
| In reply to: Recorded tracks for Musicals? - Kerick 02:18 am EDT 04/12/20 |
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| Depends on what you mean by recorded tracks. Most broadway shows are performed to click tracks so that scenic elements always move in time with the music. Those click tracks sometimes have more than click in them. Kinky Boots for example had lots of drum programming that was on the click in addition to live drumming. Mamma Mia had backup vocals on the click to sweeten and thicken the sound. The original production of Follies used prerecorded vocals for the end of Who’s That Woman because everyone onstage was so winded by the choreography. Phantom of course has used pre-record for Christine’s high notes since Sarah Brightman opened the show in NYC. There aren’t hard and fast union rules on that sort of thing and there is a reason that shows like Million Dollar Quartet and School of Rock went out of their way to tell you that what you were hearing was just what you saw being played onstage: it isn’t often the case in Broadway. You are less likely to hear any tracking in regional theatres and non union houses because they don’t often produce shows that have that degree of complication scenically and the sound systems to do this sort of thing are extremely expensive. |
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