I just saw the show on showtime and I could sometimes clearly see, that she was either lipsyncing (with and without the micropone) or the remastering of the audio was just bad.
The show was great anyway... but I was just wondering, if somebody else saw that too or can state, wether it was her doing lipsyncing or the audio-remastering.
Thank you...
I'm pretty sure the audio and tape were out of sync at some points.
I know that for some reason the special was taken apart for years and had to be carefully pieced back together, so that might contribute to the out of sync part. I don't really know, though.
Liza lip synced on part of one song, Ring Them Bells, as the coreography called for it. All of the rest were done with a wireless body mic, which was extremely rare in 1972. Actually, I hear when Liza took the show on the road, it was common for the body mic to fail in the middle of a song. I guess she got lucky this one night at the Lycium Theatre. Unfortunately, when the remastering was done there were many missing pieces of music, so they had to borrow from the sountrack (which had a bit more recorded in the studio than the show) and the original master tapes etc. It's all cut up, but they did a great job at piecing it together in my opinion.
Billy
There sure as heck isn't anybody with a voice like that filling theaters today!
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YES THERE IS............HER NAME IS LINDA EDER! SHE JUST DID A TRIBUTE CD TO HER MOM!
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Oh, yes, and one other gal...Bar...Barbra something or other...
it's on the edge of my tongue...
Oh, Y E A H....BARBRA STREISAND.
Streisand isn't dead, you know.
"A voice like that" (???)...
Her mother (Judy Garland), Streisand and Linda Eder could/can
all OUTSING Liza Minnelli, guys...
Liza's a FANTASTIC entertainer and actress...but her voice
belongs more in the vein of Ethel Merman: LOUD.
LOUD certaintly didn't hurt Merman - the best composers wrote some of their best stuff for her, just as Kander & Ebb wrote some of their best stuff for Liza (and Merman's Broadway track record is still unbeatable). One of the things that makes Liza a fantastic entertainer is that voice, and if it wasn't what it was, she can still "act" a song across. But at the time of CABARET and LIZA WITH A Z that voice was all there and incredible, and it was still there when I saw her perform live in the mid-80s and early-90s.
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I saw this show live a year after the TV special aired. I am almost sure she lip-synced most of the show (the dancing is so demanding I don't see how anyone could NOT lip sync).
See my post under the thread minor cuts in Ring them bells".
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