musical ep soundtrack (mildly spoilery)

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i've heard ASH, james marsters and amber sing. they're really good.

the others may have had some tweaking done though.

i know aly absolutely hates to sing. i think i read that in an interview somewhere.

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Wow, she hates to sing? thats interesting because she looked like she was hamming it up in the studio. The whole cast looked like they were having fun though, thats great.

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ASH, James and Amber are the singers. I read on another board that Emma has had some voice training as well.

Amber sounded pretty good when she did the Rocky Horror special. She sounds even better with a recording studio to back her up. The segment I heard at the location shoot was fabulous.

There was one female voice I heard at the location shoot that... wasn't sparkling. It wasn't [i:d379d7c3cd]bad[/i:d379d7c3cd] per se, but I could tell from my years of choir experience that whoever it was didn't know much about proper singing and intonation techniques. The tone sounded "flat," if that makes any sense. I couldn't tell from what they were doing in the shoot who the person was, but I think it may have been Aly.

From what I've read about the musical, Joss gave everyone at least a little bit of singing to do. I think some only have to do a little, though. Michelle Trachtenberg, for example, says she did more dancing than singing.

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"Don't B sharp, don't B flat, just B natural...And this one time, at band camp..."

A little compresion and reverb can go a long way in the studio to "darkening" and "filling-out" a weak voice - in some cases, all the way to a #1 single. Gee, anyone notice how popular the vocoder is again in pop music?

I also think I remember Joss mentioning that he wrote the vocal parts for each person's ability & range - as any talented composer would...Unlike, say, a certain other producer/director of a certain other show who failed miserably in his attempt to make a musical out of his wife's catterwalling. Not that I'm insinuating anything, mind you...*G*

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In case anyone's interested, I remembered and dug up an old old early Season 2 fanfic called "The Musical Comedy Version." It was written by Elaine McMillian, who was a pretty darn good fanfic writer back in the day, and like the title suggests it's a musical comedy version of [i:dc93b9bcd9]Buffy[/i:dc93b9bcd9] at that time.

You can find it here:

http://slayerfanfic.com/ElaineMcMillian/musical.html

Have fun!

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I think I can post this here:

Entertainment: BECK & SMITH: Look out for musical 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'

By MARILYN BECK and STACY JENEL SMITH

(October 17, 2001 12:27 p.m. EDT) - "Everyone will be amazed by Sarah Michelle - the lady can sing!" announces Sarah Michelle Gellar's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" costar James Marsters.

The "Buffy" company is in the midst of shooting a musical extravaganza episode composed and lyricized by none other than "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon - who has had no experience writing musicals, "and says he can't play the piano. He's doing a lot of different musical styles -- you might say Stephen Sondheim to Hank Williams," adds Marsters, himself a singer and musician.

"Some of Joss's music is surprisingly complicated. Maybe it's a Beatles kind of thing - he doesn't know enough to know what he can't do, and he's smashing rules everywhere."

With "Buffy" having helped raise UPN's status markedly this season, the network "is letting Joss have anything he wants," as Marsters divines it. The musical has been intermittently in production since the beginning of the month - with scenes being lensed in-between scenes of regular "Buffy" episodes. "We're actually shooting two and a half-to-three episodes at once. We all feel like we're doing a really cool show, and we're tired."

The hour-long musical show, targeted for mid-November airing, incorporates all the "Buffy" arcs Whedon has been weaving this season, so that all the stories build up to the singing 'n' dancing spectacle, according to Marsters. Gellar definitely shines in the terpsichorean department. "She's been a figure skater and a dancer, you know. She's arguably the best dancer in the company - and we have a lot of fine dancers."

Marsters makes the point that Whedon "is being called by a lot of people to go into the fancy world of movies. A lot of producers in his position would be tempted to leave Sunnydale ("Buffy's" hometown) and never come back. Instead, he decided to challenge and terrify himself with us. God help us next year."

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Originally posted by BBOvenGuy:
ASH, James and Amber are the singers. I read on another board that Emma has had some voice training as well.

Amber sounded pretty good when she did the Rocky Horror special. She sounds even better with a recording studio to back her up. The segment I heard at the location shoot was fabulous.

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Agrred, Amber was very good in RHS 25th anniversary. It took a little searching but I finally found a clip of her segment a few days ago at "Essence of Amber" It's 5.5MB in RM format and definitely worth seeing (or seeing again if you were lucky enough to catch it last year). http://www.efanguide.com/~amber/emulti.html There are mp3 versions too if you just wanna hear her without the video, all near the bottom of the page.

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We saw David Fury at the Kenneth Hahn Park shoot, following Amber, Aly, and Joss around with a camcorder. Wonder if the studio footage is his, too . . . ?

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*......*

Thank you SO much for that link to Amber's Rocky Horror thing.
WOW!
That's probably one of my favourite musical numbers ever and the song I tend to sing most when I'm drunk (um...doesn't happen very often), so to see Amber do it...!
WAY COOL!

Edited to say that I tend to leave my clothes ON when I'm singing it.

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hey,
thanks for the video. www.nocturn,demon.ni/see-buffy-sing.av

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Videos of the two "in production" promos are now on the USEnet group:

alt.binaries.multimedia.buffy-v-slayer

We have the following thread available for people who don't know how to download stuff off the USEnet:

http://thekittenboard.com/board/images/smilies/Forum74/HTML/002340.html

It should answer all your questions.

I believe David Fury said at the Bronze Beta last night that the clips in the promos were from his "internal documentary" that he's shooting. I was wondering what he was doing with that video camera during the location shoots.

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Your post has been reposted here to avoid spoilers in this thread.

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The Hellmouth is alive with the sounds of music

Woo Hoo Martis and David have cameos, should we expect to see their versions of the dance of joy or pain.

"When did you know your girlfriend was tinkerbell"

"Nobody messes with my girl"

"Assume crash positions"

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Originally posted by Queen of Denial:
Marti Noxon ("Buffy" executive producer) and David Fury ("Buffy" co-executive producer) make cameo appearances.

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*anvil falls on head...*

Uhhh... Shanie? Could that have been Marti singing to the traffic cop on Culver Boulevard? It kind of looked like her, did it not?

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Originally posted by wiccie:
A little compresion and reverb can go a long way in the studio

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I was all about the digital delay whenever I sang in a studio.

Man, I cannot wait to hear Amber's song. It's gonna be so good I won't even be able to listen to it.

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Originally posted by BBOvenGuy:
*anvil falls on head...*

Uhhh... Shanie? Could that have been Marti singing to the traffic cop on Culver Boulevard? It kind of looked like her, did it not?

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*is likewise struck by a really big anvil*

It darn well could've been . . . I did think it was her when I first walked by . . .

Huh, Hinton Battle as Sweet, huh? He played the role of John in Miss Saigon for a while, I believe . . . good voice. This should be fun.

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The steadycam guy deliberately went out into the street to get a really close passing shot of the singing lady, which was really conspicuous since the everywhere else he was pretty close in on Giles, Xander and Anya. I'll bet it was Marti. We'll know for sure in a couple of weeks.

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I thought the reason for everybody singing was that Xander conjured a spell from being nervous about his wedding.

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Actually having a demon summoned to Sunnydale be the reason for all the singing makes a lot more sense to me then Xander conjuring up a truth spell.

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Hmm... weird I haven't seen this posted yet. I just read on another thread (something about Amber and some others posting somewhere) that there will be a soundtrack album

Yay!!!!

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Already got a space cleared out for that album, right next to my CDs of "The Bitter Suite" and "Lyre, Lyre, Hearts on Fire."

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anyone knows where i can download the commericals for the musical episode?

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Originally posted by vixen willow:
anyone knows where i can download the commericals for the musical episode?

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Try looking in the 'Once More With Feeling' thread. I think they're in there.

And er, Shanie...please...no more...I beg of you.

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Don't know if anyone has posted this, but I saw this at the official Buffy(UPN) site:

Buffy fans:
Are you interested in owning a soundtrack of the Buffy Musical?
Click here to vote

If you have not vote, please do go there and vote.

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Originally posted by ~KISMIC~*:
I heard that they were going to make a soundtrack, but I haven't heard ANYTHING about "contract mishaps"!!! Where did you hear this?

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Forgot to mention: The guys a UPN said they'd get a linear board up by the time the ep airs so I can check in and see what people thought. But keep the pressure on! Just in case. Also, soundtrack... we're definitely going to put one out, but it may take a while cuz of contract bull$@&%, MAN it's been a nightmare trying to set that up. I'm hoping to have place at Buffupn for people to log on and click if they're interested in buying it. If we set it up, click away! (but if you do, just once, so we can get an accurate number). I guess some execs didn't think there'd be much interest, but I'm not looking to go platinum, just some streaks or highlights.... sorry. Hair secrets. Not looking for a hit record, just want those who want it to be able to get it. But every step has been painful and insane and pretty much shaken my faith in humanity. I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

For some reason I loved the bit about the caribou.

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Bwahahahaha, that has been posted before somewhere has it not, and I did not read it. Silly me. Thanks Scout, that man is bloody funny. Caribou...

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I must be a complete moron, I can't find where you vote...it just pops up the musical promo when I click the 'vote here' thing.

And Caribou....Joss is a frighteningly strange fellow, but do I ever love him!

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Originally posted by Arwen:
I must be a complete moron, I can't find where you vote...it just pops up the musical promo when I click the 'vote here' thing.

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So it's NOT just me then!! I spent quite a while trying to find the voting thing and eventually gave up after searching almost all the pages!! Anyone have an address that we can find the vote at?!?

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Bit of news on the CD, courtesy of Yahoo! Clubs BtVS Passion.

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From Allpop.com...
Friday, November 2, 2001

"Buffy" musical CD will take time

Next week, UPN will air "Once More, With Feeling," the all-singing, all-dancing episode of "Buffy The Vampire Slayer". But fans who
have already listened to the sound clips of the episode so many times they can already sing along with Buffy, won't be getting the
"Buffy" CD in the near future, zap2it.com reports.

"It was going to be Joss putting it out on Mutant Enemy [his production company]," said Marti Noxon, the show's executive producer.
"Now it looks like it's going to be (20th Century) Fox putting it out, and that means it's going to take forever. That's too bad."

She also told zap2it.com that the CD probably wouldn't be ready for the holiday season.

Noxon herself makes a musical appearance during the episode. She plays a woman crooning about a parking ticket.

"I sang when I was younger," she said, "and I was like, 'Joss, give me a little part.' Then he actually did. I thought, 'You know, it's really
self-indulgent, but let's do it anyway'."

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