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⌈ Secret Post #4776 ⌋

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Comments

[chamonix]

I feel similarly about the music. I think it's a twofold problem. First of all, while many of the actors have good voices, there were moments where they came across as weak or wavery, and I’m not sure why. The quality of sound felt a bit flat and dead, like they’d been stuffed into a cupboard filled with soundproofing equipment. Nearly every note was cut off quickly, making even the largest numbers sound lacklustre and underwhelming – maybe it’s because I had Helen Massey’s spine-tingling rendition in mind, but Victoria’s delivery of “like a flower as the dawn is breaking” during Memory was a huge disappointment. I know they’re singing from poetry, but a lot of the time it sounded as if they were literally just reading off a sheet with very little variation in intonation (The Jellicle Ball is especially guilty of this). It is possible to recite lines of poetry without sounding monotonous.

Secondly, the actual instrumentation isn’t up to scratch in my opinion. It sounds tinny and synthy, like it was recorded in a 16 year old’s bedroom with a drum machine and an 8-track. The opening song was the worst for this, in my opinion. Like the recited lyrics, it sounds like it’s been programmed in. The tempo is samey and feels a little too fast for me. There’s no lingering notes; no emotion in the instrumentation.

The only song I really liked was Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer’s slinky slow jazz switchup, which everyone else seemed to hate. Go figure. Everyone raves about Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat, but I feel it was more the staging of the performance and talent of the dancers that made it work, not the actual music.

[(Anonymous)]

The inconsistency is from them recording the songs whole on set instead of in studio where each line would have multiple takes to choose from. They would have needed very experienced live performance veterans to get the songs to the level needed, and even then it's not an easy task. There's a reason that Broadway shows record their cast albums the same way all recording artists do in studio, with multiple takes, despite the cast being used to live performances.