As a 40+ yr veteran of major studio recording, live sound and audio for live TV I am convinced they were lip syncing the majority of the show to a composite track they recorded in rehearsals with them wearing headband/earset mics. There were so many instances of not only timing but serious descrepancies in tone to visual perspective and ambience or lack of. A person turning or moving fast and speaking/singing and there is no apparent change in ambience or room tone. Person speaking fairly loud yet lips barely moving. I could go on and on. I was really bugged by the ambient noise as been discussed. I wondered if it was from lighting. Much worse in Neverland I guess from abundance of movers. It was really bad with tight compression or expansion pulling it up between lines.
If these actors were really wearing body mics I want to know what they had on. How they kept down phase cancellations when actors were close together. I am just not buying it. I feel all but some area micing for group effect was all running to code with them lip syncing it. I know how hard this would have been to pull off live. I have done it. Not to this magnitude but just the same. I know it is difficult. I was most impressed with all the steadycam and jib work. I have also directed live TV in my early days. I did not catch one switching mistake. I was about to believe it was automated also. It was a monumental undertaking. I would have loved to have worked on it.
Edit: just looked at the video clip posted above. Case in point where PP runs across room and jumps into window sill while singing. No change in her voice. Like she was standing by a fixed studio mic singing it. Just very unnatural. 'Disembodied' as one reviewer put it.
GEORGE
Mid-America Communications,
Audio Creations Inc. Paducah, KY.
Classic Recording, Nashville.