Lovely bunch of people to work with!

He's sweet!

Yes, the 3 girls at 9'09 are real. And it's real amateur group can be able to do almost anything. I am in Shanghai International Choir league and we did even full Bach's B minor Mass, John's Passion etc. with full orchestra (of course the full orchestra you can say just as on this video, mostly amateurs). It's just possible with amateurs to have time and have basic music training, even not have to be conservatory students.

Annoys me so much when musicians do it in an open pit.

He’s singing too XD

Just a double

Aurora C.M. YT I used to be a stage hand at our local theater and we would “sing” the songs from the production we did. Lol. It actually helped us stay on cue for things lol.

No Bad Days Travel same tho

Accurate

true

@@jadejaguar69 *blushes*

*blushes*

@@hubert6260 *blushes*

Can't be certain, but that looks like Raul, not Eric - the hair is wrong.

Jaco it is the phantom. Niyeal winter, you are right one of them is the clone, however you mixed it up, the one on stage is the true phantom, and the one we see is his double for the production - hence he has no makeup and his hair isn't the "phantoms hair". Hope that clears it up for you two.

Why is this joke funny to me. There's like a small sense of irony here Hahaha 😂

@@sgtmajorpatrickharper7728 I know this is late. But from what I remember even in Broadway and West End they have double too. One for Phantom and one for Christine when they are in the maze scene and when Phantom does the trick in Masquerade. It's really weird to think about it. But these people deserve the attention from us nonetheless.

This is a youth production. Not WE

This is was very backhanded haha

Tour!!!!!!!

depends on the mic type and the location of the mic

Well, the doors aren't slamming shut. And the mics are not facing the door. Most mics have a heart shaped pattern, so they don't capture what is behind them.

Na man. There’s is a thing called “noise gating” or “noise suppressing” that the engineer would apply to the mics...essentially it eliminate room noises and pick up the sound of the instrument as long as it was loud enough to hear. Basically you would need to literally slam the door to pick ip that sound lol. An engineers biggest problem I. This situation is controlling the bleed from every instrument hitting every mic lol

Yeah where are they sitting?? weird situation.

This could be an off-broadway production, like a tour or something. Certainly isn’t Broadway or the West End.

That's literally under the stage. In the pit by any definition.

@@DerekHartley no way under the stage has that height of a ceiling. this look like the sr loading dock area

@@drewduncan1541 Even the local theatre I perform in has an entire floor under the stage. But you may well be right, I think someone elsewhere has said as much.

Obviously this recording is part room ambience from the camera and part desk recording - couldn't hear the door in the live mix!

I had video in front of me (which is what you can see me looking at all of the time!) and mic fold back for me, and on stage had full orchestra fold back and videos of me in wings and in house. Orchestra didn't hear too much onstage vocals, it was mostly conductor, keys and drums that had that. Plus only myself and keys 1 and drums had click for the overture/phantom of the opera. It seemed to work quite well - orchestra just had to be very tight in following me!

Kris Rawlinson Awesome! That's incredibly impressive! We've run in-ears for the past two shows I've worked on but it was a much smaller pit so I was curious about your logistics. Any reason for using click for just the opening number? Really appreciate the reply and your insight. Thanks again!

@@granttbrown in the comment section of this video from 2017 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/na-ArJt5qpuonGg.html they indicate that the click-track and some pre-recorded portions are provided (and required) as part of the licensing. Not sure if that applies to this production.

@@bradclements1815 Yeah, Overture and POTO songs are provided as tracks (not with click though - so I made my own click along). I also made a few other click tracks up with some prerecorded vocal on some

Agreed

All amateurs - some professional musicians, but all cast is students 13-18!

Kris Rawlinson wow that’s incredible

I do have to say, the phantom has a gifted voice

Kris Rawlinson that’s still impressive though! Thanks for sharing this video!

@@krisrawlinson1 WHAT? The phantom is under 18? With that voice?? Amazing. Same for Christine!

Ed Moore uv light will stop the white/fluorescent light from travelling further

Erm, sorry but that's not how light works. Unless you're talking about just placing physical distance between the light source and stage. Or some absorbent material. Explain.

@@lamb7994 What an utter crock of sh*t. Explain the science behind this ludicrous statement or GTFO.

@@kitlane362 I couldn't find direct sources, so this is speculative as my house doesn't have UV and fluorescent lights to test this with. But extrapolating from (1) the fact that shorter wavelengths of light don't travel as well through dense media (air, water, etc) and (2) UV light has a shorter wavelength than visible light (possibly making it act like a denser medium), I can hypothesise that a room that has UV lights in it could act like a body of water in terms of scattering visible light. I would absolutely do some science on this if I could, but I can't, so I won't. It would explain why all theatres seem to have at least one random UV-lit area in them.

@@NewMoonStarlight Sorry, this is all wrong. I think what OP is talking about is the blue light in the room outside the band which clearly leads onto the Wing. Blue light is used simply because is is a deeper light colour then white, red or green which means that the light will be dimmer. This causes less bleed onto the stage as more light can be absorbed by the black masking around the stage. UV has nothing to do with it as UV lighting would: 1) Make white costume glow off-stage (not wanted) 2) Be invisible to the actors, not aiding their walking around the space (unsafe)

It was a schools production

Kris Rawlinson it’s very good. Do you have anymore videos?

This is in my local theatre and this is the scenery dock so the stage is behind the conductor behind the grey doors. The blue light door is access to stage left and right wings a few dressing rooms, green room and stage door and the other door is to the rest of the dressing rooms

Julian Robbel no

It’s a youth production! Crazy right

by the actors who pass through the pit, I think is on some side of the stage

Yep

I know I’ve been laughing at this for like 3 min 😂

Man really called her out 😂

Like pretty much every other show?

No, they don’t scream, that’s bad for them vocally. Even in live action they somehow can lip sync if they can’t reach a high note. But if you are talking about his singing, that part isn’t necessarily singing. He’s more of just projecting his voice

Keith Dang then why did a scream followed instead of the normal high note? Was there no lipsync available for it?

Matias Giraud I reckon it’s harder to get the cue right for the sound cue person, all the actors are students so I wouldn’t be surprised if some or all of the tech was also student led! On top of that it wasn’t half bad, I have 100% heard worse from people who are professionals

Could be a lot of reasons, orchestra probably had issues staying in time or something.

That's the beauty of a live orchestra, though a pre-recorded track can give the performers/orchestra a break from the work etc., but having to deliver it live, It gives a more rushing feeling, you know? I really haven't performed on stage with a live orchestra but that thrill of live playing is just a treat for the performers and THE audience, plus, the orchestra can adjust to the performer, thus, giving the actor/actresses freedom to give diction or more attitude of the lines they are bound to deliver. It's just more authentic to listen to when there is a live orchestration accompanied for the whole execution of the story. Also, support to our orchestra people! They do so much good work! That is my opinion :)))

lol no.. it's a student production but with professional creatives/production team/orchestra

I enjoy it when a conductor actually conducts in a pattern that i can read, instead of doing everything in variants of two or one. I like this guy.

I generally subdividing to establish the tempos - it was a week run of a show that the orchestra had 2 days to practice and learn. Had we had a long run, I'm sure the subdivision would have stopped soon!

it's a school production lol how do you feel now?

She did pretty good but as P.A.D said they are amateur/younger performers but she did pretty good

It's a school kid, you opinionated twat. Her singing will improve with age and further training, your attitude probably won't.