VoicePlay, Wicked A Cappella Medley: First Reaction & Honest Thoughts!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2021
- My first reaction & honest thoughts to VoicePlay's Wicked Medley, arranged by Geoff Castellucci!
Geoff Castellucci calls this arrangement his "monster" and we're about to find out why he calls it that!
This a cappella medley includes Geoff Castellucci, Layne Stein, Eli Jacobson, Cesar De La Rosa, Rachel Potter, and Emoni Wilkins.
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If I pronounced Emoni's name wrong, I apologize. Hope you enjoy the video :)
You got Eli's name wrong
Eli is pronounced Eh - Lee ...its a shortened version of his full name
How in the world does Layne do what he does and still find so much free time to smile?
Haha right?! 😂
Geoff said years in the making. His arrangement, his seven-minute BEAST. Eli is turning into the lighting Geek. Rachel was in Wicked. Geoff said he wanted to have it set up like they would during a live performance.
Yeah the performance was everything it could have possibly offered for the music video.
I think Rachel was an understudy for the national traveling group. Geoff spent nearly 2 years arranging this medley - he calls it The Beast. And Eli is pronounced EL-EE
Wow! Geoff must be very proud of his masterpiece! Thank you for the correction of Eli's name!
yep! Rachel was in the ensemble for the 2nd national touring group and was an understudy for Glinda
Geoff's arranging skills and dedication to detail, an insanely talented a cappella group, a fantastic Broadway musical, two powerhouse divas......Perfection! This is Grammy worthy! He's spent years putting this together and he found the perfect voices for this. Rachel was in Wicked as an understudy and Emoni has sung with them before as well. Eli's runs and riffs, Cesar's smoothness and background vocals, Geoff's low notes to add depth, and Layne just killing it on perc. That cascade up and down at 5:45 was magical and so hard to do.
Eli pretty much does lighting in every Voiceplay video ever. On this one him and Geoff did it!
They are both masterminds of lighting! Incredible!
You echoed a lot of my thoughts here. I love me some PTX and Home Free, but these guys are on a whole new level for me with their amazing creativity, fun and remarkable arrangements. They keep raising the bar to heights I didn't think were possible before.
Right?! Their talent is incredible! I can't get enough of their music videos and how they bring a musical theatre atmosphere to everything.
So glad you loved this one! Your reaction was great. Yes Geoff killed this arrangement, not letting any detail go unchecked. Fun fact about this video shoot: even though everything was pre-recorded vocally, Rachel was battling with Laryngitis. Eli and Cesar slayed their vocals and Layne was phenomenal as usual. It was great they were able to get both Rachel and Emoni on the same project since they have both collaborated with VoicePlay in the past. Overall a fantastic video for a fantastic medley! 💜💜💜 Keep them coming!
Thanks Stephanie! Glad you enjoyed the video. Rachel is powerful with her voice and it's incredible she was able to perform through being sick.. Geoff is also a mastermind with arranging their music!
Was laughing because you reacted to Eli the same way I did twice in the beginning. He draws my attention quickly no matter how often I hear him. The all sound so wonderful.
He has incredible vocal control and an incredible range! Happy you enjoyed the reaction 😄
Layne amazed me. Rachel always gives me chills. Everyone just excelled in this and its a true masterpiece
Couldn't agree more! This arrangement is worth listening to over and over.
Rachel was in the 2nd production of Wicked
That makes complete sense!
Great review. She has been on Broadway and is back there again. And she was and un understudy and part of the ensemble of the second production of Wicked.
This medley was amazing - the arrangement and vocals. Wonderful. [BTW Emoni is pronounced E-mahn-ee and also Eli is pronounced L-E ]. Rachel was in a touring stage production with this part, so yes, on stage. Thanks for your reaction
Every one of them has their moment in this medley.
You've got that right!
this was amazing and they do most of it themselves they had some help with camera, makeup and getting the backdrop put up but they work so hard off set as well as on ❤️🏴
To think of all the time they spend on their music and videos.. it's absolutely insane!
Actually, Autotune is rarely used by anyone these days, unless they want that odd sound as a special effect. There are much better programs available. I don’t know if one was used here, but I do know that Emoni did rerecord a couple small lines off set, and that may be what you heard.
They usually only use one camera to record, which makes for very long days when taping. The only exception to that I know of was the video for Halo. They had a steady cam and one for 1080p closeups recording at the same time. Layne did a beautiful job filming and editing that video.
Most professional singers use auto pitch correction very sparingly, even more so when it's a cappella music. What Emoni did wasn't pitch corrected. Singers like Christina, Mariah, Whitney, etc did that all the time, it isn't out of the realms of possibility.
@@samuelmncedisi1065 i wouldn't be surprised if it was pitch shifted for effect. i don't doubt she can do the run, but the texture of that particular run here did not sound natural
I loved the beginning of the song. That sounded like a theatrical son, like the beginning of the song from Hercules, the Disney song
Haha right?! Such a ridiculously great arrangement!
Subharmonic C#1 at the end from our amazing Geoff Castellucci 🤣🍻
I just want to say this up in the top three reactions to this masterpiece I’ve seen. Thank you! I, for one, would contribute to a fund to get you to NYC to see a Broadway play. You need it and deserve it! Merry Christmas!🎄🎄
Haha thank you Lisa! This music video was incredibly fun to watch! I know my parents told me I visited New York when I was a little child, but it's not like I remember anything 😂
Rachel has also been a guest at a Kristin Chenoweth performance and sang For Good with her. You can find it if you look on Rachel's page on youtube
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Incredibly enjoyable reaction and commentary! I love watching people who enjoy what they do and express it openly - And all the details you give are amazing, both with the arrangement and production design. Definitely going to watch more!
Glad you enjoyed the video 😁 There are more reactions on this channel to enjoy! Thank you for the kind words!
Rachel is always excellent, but this is the first time I'd heard Emoni... and I love her voice, especially her lower, rich register! This whole arrangement, and performance by all Involved, is brilliant.
Couldn't agree more! I believe Rachel and Emoni compliment each other well!
Check out The Bones. Emoni is on that one, too, and it's a wonderful song.
Emoni was in the a capella group TEN, which came in second to Home Free on The Sing Off.
Very cool! The more you know!
Rachel played Ariel for 5 years at Disney Orlando.
People have different ideas about how to pronounce Emoni, but I can assure you that Eli's name is pronounced to rhyme with belly. or deli. :) People write it diffferent ways but I find rhyming a more accurate way. Rachel is most famously known for her performances on Broadway as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family, and the Mistress in the Tony nominated revival of Evita,. She was cast as Ariel in the Voyage of the Little Mermaid. (See VoicePlay's LIttle Mermaid) She subsequently went on to perform as Belle in Beauty and the Beast, Nemo in Finding Nemo: The Musical, and a slew of other shows at Disney. I see that she was in Wicked [US Tour], 2nd National Tour, 2009 as Ensemble [Replacement] and Glinda (Understudy) [Replacement]. More than that I don't know.
Voctave, Where Are You Christmas???
Go Sun Devils! 🌞
Forks up!
Rachel played Galinda on Boadway. There’s a bootleg that was posted of her singing popular if you sear wicked ravhel potter
😊👍
She was an understudy for Wickedas Elphaba.....if you check out their song Just Sing, with the captions on....it will tell you who is who, and what they do and what they may have collaborated with VoicePlay on...>^^
Actually, Rachel was understudy for Glinda, not Elphaba.
Talking about lighting, watch VPs We Don't Talk About Bruno. Our local university Florida State U has a marvelous film department as well as a world class theatre dept. If you are ever in North Florida, let me know, I'll take you over there. I've seen Sweeney Todd there (so much better than the movie), Chicago, Shakespeare in Love (no music but good), Rent, and more. The Speaker of the Congress of Graduate Students, went to the big Chicago Theater after graduating as theater tech and staging designer. At FSU he built a rotating 2-story stage so each side had 2 rooms, up and down. So cool.
I know this is old but I just watched it and saw you mention Panic! Did you know Voiceplay covered them? It’s a series Trapped - Billie Eiliah then Panic 1 & 2. Would be cool to do a react to the 3 in that order in one video 😅
Rachel was on wicked she played glinda i think..
Could you react to Keala Settle singing This is Me for the greenlighting session to get The Greatest Showman to the big screen? It's awesome and quite emotional.
Thanks for the suggestion!
Rachel has been in it but this time she's getting to sing a different set of songs.
Man, she sounded fantastic in this one!