Klarinet Archive - Posting 001000.txt from 1999/02

From: <peter.stoll@-----.ca>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: A Little Night Music
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:05:38 -0500

In keeping with these stories of involuntary pit/stage exchanges, two
tales come to mind, one serious, one funny:

When the Toronto production of "Showboat" opened, there was no netting
over the pit, and a fairly raked (sloping forward) stage. At one point
someone carts a wheelbarrow of logs around, and instead of fake
styrofoam props, the producers went for authentic and stocked it up with
real bits of tree. Well, sure enough on one of the previews the
wheelbarrow operator lost control and the logs rolled onto the stage and
down into the pit. A horn player received a serious concussion and ended
up suing the company.

On a much funnier note; a trumpeter who had been at Indiana University
a while back told me of a trumpet student who'd been playing a
contemporary opera, where at one point a tenor sings in english, "Get me
a loaf of bread!" and sure enough for the last show this crazy guy
tosses up a bag of Wonderbread! Apparently the tenor was speechless...
talk about "your wish is my command!"

Peter Stoll
Instructor, Univ.of Toronto

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