Klarinet Archive - Posting 000643.txt from 2005/06

From: "Geoff & Sherryl-Lee Secomb" <gsecomb@-----.au>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fiddler Clarinetist
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:59:32 -0400

As MD of a number of amateur productions, we use cameras and monitor screens
for these kinds of situations. Last year I did West Side Story, with no
direct contact with the cast, as they saw me and I saw them via TV only!
Next year, as it happens, I am also doing Fiddler.
Cheers,
Geoff
AUSTRALIA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: "Klarinet" <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 9:01 AM
Subject: [kl] Fiddler Clarinetist

>I was in New York yesterday to see the revival production of Fiddler On the
>Roof at the Minskoff Theater. A phenomenal production all-around. For the
>klezmer bit in the wedding scene, they brought a clarinetist on stage in
>costume. He played wonderfully, and I thought after his bit was over that I
>saw him go off stage to get rid of the clarinet and then, I thought, come
>back on as one of the background characters in the rest of the scene.
>
> Does anyone know (1) who the clarinetist is, (2) if he also plays clarinet
> in the pit orchestra (which is seated upstage right in full view) or he
> only plays the klezmer part.
>
> The Fiddler himself also inhabits the stage throughout the show, playing a
> wirelessly miked violin. I wondered how much control the orchestra
> conductor actually has over tempos and entrances, since he is about
> midstage and all the way to the right (next to the wing) so most of the
> time neither the leads, the chorus nor the Fiddler is facing him.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Karl Krelove
>
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