Wicked peformance, do they pre-recorded their voices?

Question:I love wicked, but i have been wondering about this for quite a while now. I understand that in order to make the actors' voice loud and clear, they have to use microphone, or something alike. But i cannot find any mic attached to the actors' bodies. Do they use a super mini microphone, or do they simply lip-sync the whole play..?? Does anyone know??

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I love wicked, but i have been wondering about this for quite a while now. I understand that in order to make the actors' voice loud and clear, they have to use microphone, or something alike. But i cannot find any mic attached to the actors' bodies. Do they use a super mini microphone, or do they simply lip-sync the whole play..?? Does anyone know??

The only thing that is pre-recorded in Wicked is the line in the prologue "Have another drink, my dark-eyed beauty. I've another night right here in town. Have another drink of green elixer, and we'll have ourselves a little mixer. Have another little swallow, little lady, and follow me down."

Because the person singing that line is not the same person acting it out onstage...for obvious reasons if you've seen the show. I won't give it away if you haven't.

But anyway, live theatre is LIVE. Everyone has wireless microphones. There are too many factors involved for lip-syncing to even be an option.

hmm.
truthfully, i dont know the answer. but i HIGHLY doubt that they pre record their voices. if you have seen legally blonde the musical on MTV, you dont see any microphones attached to the actors bodies either. they might have floor mics. but idk

i was wondering this myself.
isn't it the same in every performance? i reckon, (might not be true!), that there are hidden microphones around the stage. but i'm not sure, only a guess.

No. they never pre-record their voices in any part of the play. They have overhead mics and tiny, hidden mics sometimes, but they dont lip-sync.

The only performer I know of who pre-recorded a part of their performance was Sarah Brightman in Phantom who could not be counted on to hit that high note every night (end of Angel of Music).

On Broadway, the mics are battery operated wireless and very tiny. They wear them under their wigs and they stick out at their hairline on their foreheads. Sometimes you can see them.

if you look really closely there are microphones taped to their heads in some place on their hair line normally, they are really tiny though and then the wire goes into their hair. Trust me they do have microphones and it is not pre recorded! you can probably see the microphones if you look at youtube maybe x