Is this actually LIVE or pre recorded?
Probably a stupid question but it doesn't seem like it could be LIVE. I'm not really sure though. Anybody know?
shareIt's live.
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It's live, just like a real Broadway Show would be, why do you think it couldn't be live? Broadway shows do live shows 8 times a week.
shareIt's Live, but I don't understand why there are commercials. Thought it would be commercial free.
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NBC gotta pay the bills - that's why there are commercials
shareSo the cast can take a break, for the crew to change the set (they used just one set this time, keeping the feel much more theatrical than the previous live musicals). And yes, they need the commercials because that's how networks get money. In fact, they charge a pretty penny to run commercials during this production.
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I'm pretty sure it is, unless maybe by a few second delay if you'd count that as "not live".
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It's supposedly live, I think there's a five minute delay on 'live' airings due to an incident that happened on the grammys some years ago, I think a certain severe expletive was used.
shareIt Should be recorded. They should stop with the "live" on TV shows.
shareThey are recording it. Live is just a gimmick for scripted shows. Certain shows will perform an episode live for a special occasion.
This however is a gimmick NBC has revived for the third year in a row to have a musical performed live on air. I think it mostly attracts people to watch "if they mess up".
But I don't know how much that really reflects. As in the modern era while ratings still are important to the networks, watching things live don't matter as much to people. How many people that in the end will love this are going to have been able to watch it live tonight?
It's three hours on a weeknight, this might be something a good chunk of the people that will end up saying they love it may DVR or wait for the dvd/digital file to watch when they want.
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Too many commercials. With Broadway "live" shows it should be continuous w/o interruption.
shareI'm probably one of the few viewers who remembers when variety shows and soap operas were still performed live. When the show had to end, it was just chopped off and off we went to the next offering. Glitches were basically ignored, because of strict timing.
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It was considered live but most probably on a few seconds tape delay in case of something being shown, ex: costume malfunction, etc.
sharebroadway shows have intermission for set changes.
shareThat's not specifically what intermission is for. Many set changes happen a vista, or in plain view for the audience to see.
sharefor minor set changes yes, But for MAjor scene changes no. Thats what intermission is for. My point was. Its not continuous.
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Intermissions are primarily utilized to give audiences a chance to use the bathroom and for the house to sell them drinks and show merchandise. Sets have nothing to do with it.
The fact is when you present a play, concert, or some other event without an intermission, liquor and merch sales go down. Lost revenue is never a desirable thing.
The original productions of "Pippin," "A Chorus Line," and (I believe) "Man of La Mancha" were performed straight through with no intermission. The recent Broadway revival of "Pippin" found a spot for one.
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It was done live, just like the show UNDATEABLE is every Friday night. The majority of shows are already pre-recorded---live shows are not done that often. In fact, most of early TV was done live until about the mid-'60s or so, I think. Also, your statement is silly because because live shows are recorded as they're being done. The difference between a live show and a recorded show is that the actors look like they might mess up sometimes---there is definitely a different feel to it.
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just before my time but I was aware of live TV musicals based on the Julie Andrews "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella" in 1957. I grew up on the Lesley Anne Warren version myself. Interestingly they had commercials in mind back then too and as written - "The musical had to fit into the 90-minute program with six commercial breaks, so it was divided into six short acts." The broadcast was viewed by more than 100 million people.
(Peter Pan had been broadcast live preciously in 1956.)
Otherwise commercials ruin musicals on TV, IMO, and many others I see. I would really try to flood the network's FB and Twitter etc. with requests to limit those in the future.
I am trying to remember, but wasn't Sound of Music 2 years presented with "limited commercial interruption"? Now, that could just be due to the length of the show and they could never fit it into a 3 hour time slot with the amt of commercials they had last night and a year ago during Pan.
I would have rather they fit the show into 2 hours with limited commercials, and then have the Making Of special afterwards. (Am I the only one who thought it didn't make sense to have the Making Of special a week before the production aired?)
SOM seemed to have less commercials as I recall. SOM runs 2:14:44 and PPL ran 2:11:15 actual lengths. I know Peter was in a 3-hour slot, I can't remember about SOM.