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| re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen | |
| Posted by: BillEadie 08:53 am EDT 06/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen - AlanScott 11:15 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
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| Anything starring Ethel Merman, but Annie Get Your Gun in particular. I would love to have seen her powering her way over the orchestra to the last row of the theater without amplification. I often wonder how actors and singers are trained to be able to do that and not sound like they’re shouting. | |
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| re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 05:50 pm EDT 06/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen - BillEadie 08:53 am EDT 06/05/23 | |
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| I think you'd have to go back to the 1930s to hear Merman completely unamplified, or maybe the earliest shows in the 1940s. There was some amplification here and there — in revues and in very large theatres — during the 1930s. I mean floor mics and area mics, of course, not body mics, although body mics were being talked about as a possibility as early as the early 1940s. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the original AGYG had floor mics. in Hello, Dolly! she was not miked (miced?) on the runway as she was not wearing a mic, at least according to the press at the time, although Brian Kellow's bio of Merman said she did a wear a mic. Anyway, I saw her in it, and she sounded completely unamplified on the runway. |
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| re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen | |
| Posted by: JereNYC (JereNYC@aol.com) 01:13 pm EDT 06/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen - BillEadie 08:53 am EDT 06/05/23 | |
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| I'd pick GIRL CRAZY to see if the Merman "star is born" legend is actually anywhere close to what the actual reaction was. It would be so interesting to see an audience react to Merman as a brand new talent that few of them would have seen or have heard of prior. And the bonus would be seeing a pre-Hollywood Ginger Rogers. |
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| Posted by: huskyital 12:54 pm EDT 06/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Productions of the past I wish I'd seen - BillEadie 08:53 am EDT 06/05/23 | |
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| I saw her in the production of Annie get your gun at Lincoln center and I remember even after I ran out of an exit to go to the bathroom I could still hear her bellowing beautifully. The original recording of gypsy with Ethel is still thrilling to listen to. | |
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