Klarinet Archive - Posting 000992.txt from 1999/02

From: ROBERT ABRAHAM <rkabear@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: [ Re: [kl] A Little Night Music]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:36:49 -0500

Richard Bush <rbushidioglot@-----.net> wrote:
> =

> =

> CmdrHerel@-----.com wrote:
> =

> > In a message dated 2/25/99 8:25:04 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> > scottdmorrow@-----.com writes:
> >
> > << >This has got to be my all time favorite show that I've played!
> > >
> > >The music is rollicking and fun as is the show itself. Everything =
I
> > like in a
> > >plot is there: Love, sex, scandel, angst and fun
> >
> > And that's just in the orchestra pit! >>
> >
> > Well, we did get a thrill one night when the ball of yarn the girl dr=
ops
came
> > undone and came bouncing into the pit... We were in a very deep pit =
and
this
> > bright red ball of yarn (needed for the plot) comes hopping in and we=
're
> > going, "Oh my God what do we do what do we do!" Our clever and quick=

thinking
> > bassoonist simply grabbed it and held it up very high over our heads
within
> > reach of the actors (and view of the audience by their chuckles). Th=
e
yarn
> > was retrieved, the plot continued, and we had our angst and fun for t=
he
night!
> > :)
> >
> > Teri Herel
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------=
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> >
> =

> A ball of yarn is one thing! I was in a pit playing "Fiddler on the Roo=
f"
when a
> VERY heavy candle stick holder came crashing into the pit. Luckily, it
missed all
> of us and our horns. From that night on, during that scene, we watched
overhead
> and only occasionally looked at the director.
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*
In college, I played clarinet for the school's opera company's production=
of
"Marriage of Figaro" with an elaborate set on a rotating turntable stage.=
The
director went to such pains as to get sod and a running fountain for the
garden scene.

All week, people in the pit had been throwing around a rubber chicken fro=
m the
theater department (where the pit entrance is when the pit is down). On
opening night, someone threw the chicken past the conductor, who got very=

angry. He insisted that the person in the rear of the pit who caught the
chicken get rid of it immediately. The person threw it back over his head=
,
thinking it was going back through the theater department entrance, but h=
e
misjudged, and it went up on stage somewhere. No one really had a clue wh=
ere
it landed until the garden scene when the audience was all laughing. As w=
e
looked up from the pit, there was the rubber chicken gurgling in the foun=
tain
for all to see. And the countess didn't even crack a smile!

Kelly Abraham
Woodwinds/Computer Geek
New York City

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