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Cathy Lipsynching???????? ???


Is this true????

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No, she is not lipsinking. I saw her in Chicago do the part.

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"No, she is not lipsinking. I saw her in Chicago do the part."



Actully she might be lip-synching in this. It was a specialy produced TV version of the show, and not a video of the stage production (in much the same way as the TV/Video version of Cats is).

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No. Wrong. She was no lipsinking.

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You miss my point. She would not have been lip-synching on stage when you saw it. But this is NOT a film of the stage production, but a specialy produced version for TV. Much like the video version of Cats (and everyone lip-synched in that).

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No, it's not. It is a filming of the stage production. CATS was not filming of the stage production. Peter Pan was. You're wrong. Cathy Rigby never lipsynched on stage nor in this movie. There was an audience. All they did was they did kinda like what they did with RENT Filmed Live on Broadway.

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Then explain why the 2000 CD (which states it is the TV soundtrack) has no audience sound whatsoever. This to me is a clear indication that the sound was pre-recorded.

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It only says that because it was originally aired on TV. No. That was not pre-recorded. All of that was filmed live on stage, Just like RENT.

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If it is not the TV soundtrack, then why bother to release the disc at all. When there is a perfectly good cast recording (also by cathy) released a couple of years before on the same label.

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Read this writing and read it good, because you are wrong, end of story. It...is...not pre-rechorded. It is filmed live on Broadway. Final.

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Someone who was a very important staff member for Rigby's Peter Pan is a lifelong friend and neighbor of mine, and I know for a fact that she was indeed lip-synching for the television taping. She of course did not lip-synch in the regular live performances that any of you would have seen.

I am sick to death of alleged adults on IMDb talking out of their a$$ and then saying "end of story." Are we all back in seventh grade?


"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."

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Well I had a feeling she must be, because as I said the 2000 soundtrack CD has no audience on it. Although the DVD case confuses the isue.

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Whether lip-synched or not. It was most certainly NOT filmed on Broadway. It was filmed at "La Mirada Theatre" in California.

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Liar. You're Just saying that so you can win the battle. Sorry, nope. Wrong.

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Aren't you the 21-year-old imbecile who said you were in the original Broadway production of West Side Story? No one's going to listen to you.

I have no interest in who wins your childish schoolyard argument. I swear, you sound like you're six years old. I have settled the issue, you are mistaken, now leave it be.


"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."

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Never. And no, I never said I was in the original Broadway production of West Side Story. I said I was in the original Broadway production version. It was a community theatre, but it was the original Broadway version.

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I never said I was in the original Broadway production of West Side Story.


mistoffelees12 (Mon Dec 7 2009 14:15:01)

... I was in the production.


moviemusicfan (Mon Dec 7 2009 15:00:31)

OK, I understand. You were in the production (the original Broadway production, or a later one?)...


mistoffelees12 (Mon Dec 7 2009 16:51:22)

I was in the original Broadway production.


No matter what you meant to say, these are your words.

In any case, Rigby was lip-synching.


"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."

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Liar! Liar! Liar! Rigby was NOT lipsynching! Wanna know why? Because I met her! I Just didn't wanna tell you! I met her at the stage door when I saw her farewell performance in Chicago as Peter Pan! I told her of how great she did in Peter Pan the DVD, and how so many of the original cast was in it, she said she was NOT lipsynching, shut up unless you wanna get reported.

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Wow, mistoffelees12, you are living proof that tenors require so much empty cavity in their head in order to provide resonance that there is little room left for brains. I have trouble believing you are out of kindergarten, let alone a 21-year-old. Now you are stooping to childish name-calling and making up preposterous things (she just volunteered that she wasn't lip-synching? ). A member of her creative staff, as I said, a lifelong family friend, has confirmed that she was lip-synching. I don't know why you are so attached to your delusion that you must behave like a little baby, but I think you've finally succeeded in making my Ignore list. I'm glad I know your real name so I can avoid seeing you perform as well.



"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."

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Oh, screw you. You don't know my real name. No, she did not volunteer that answer. I asked her. You're a liar, you Just wanna win the battle.

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(Flicks off)

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Apparently mistoffelees12 reported the post in which I addressed him by his first name, even though he himself was foolish enough to post his own name on IMDb, as well as links to videos of him performing, which is just not a wise thing to do.


"I don't seem able to strike the congenial note."

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If anyone is lying then it is the cover of the DVD!!!!!!

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Liar. You're Just saying that so you can win the battle. Sorry, nope. Wrong.




Taken from the web.


SYNOPSIS

* View Less

Telecast of a performance from the Broadway production and tour of the musical "Peter Pan," about the little boy determined never to grow up. Recounts the adventures of the three Darling children as they fly away from their nursery into the magic and wonder of Neverland. There they encounter the cunning and evil Captain Hook, villainous pirates, a ticking crocodile, brave Indians and Tinker Bell, Peter's devoted fairy friend. Taped at the La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts in La Mirada, California.


Kindly do not call me a liar.

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Everyone, this is NOT true! Cathy Rigby was never lipsynching in the TV special, that was her singing as she did on the real stage. The only difference is the show was filmed like Sweeney Todd, RENT, and Jekyll and Hyde. No. She wasn't lipsynching. Don't listen to those who say she was. I met her. And she said no.

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Joe, buddy, she lip-synched. It's common for any filmed version of a stage show to sweeten up the film with alternate takes or better recordings. For example, RENT Filmed Live on Broadway wasn't just recorded at the final performance. As was widely discussed online and on the DVD's special features, it was recorded at several performances, and some of it (mainly close-ups) was even re-done in the theater with no audience when the director or the team decided it needed to be.

Similarly, with the filmed version of Sweeney Todd, and in this case I presume you're referring to the one with Angela Lansbury, it's widely discussed both online and in published texts (including the magnificent book Sondheim and Company by Craig Zadan) that they did it over several days during many performances, again sometimes without audiences on closer shots or close-ups.

Regardless of what the audience may see or perceive, not every performance goes off without some kind of hitch. When filming a show, it is necessary to use every trick in the book to put together the "perfect" live film, because for people who don't see the show but buy the DVD or video or download it or whatever, it may be the only time they see it live, so they have to try to nail everything. That means that yes, if someone didn't quite hit the note live, they fix it. That means that yes, if one dance number went better a different night, they'll splice that in without much trouble. That's just the way filming something works. Very rarely does anybody master a performance in one take right off the bat.

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No, damn it, it was a filmed live performance. At the final scene, the actress playing Wendy actually does magically transform from a child into an adult while sitting in a chair onstage. /sarcasm off

(Sorry about the two year reply delay, I’m a slow typist.)

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I have now actually seen the film itself, and as a sound engineer it is completely obvious that everyone is lip-synching.

Let Zygons Be Zygons.

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