Klarinet Archive - Posting 000028.txt from 2008/06

From: "dbittker@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] A new kind of doubling , continued
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:07:00 -0400

There was a similar production of Sweeney Todd done on Broadway a few years
back, with the actors playing all the parts, and in many cases-it was
especially fun watching Patti Lupone play glockenspiel and tuba, in
addition to Mrs. Lovett- and naturally, as an occasional pit performer, I
wondered what on earth they would do if a sub needed to be called in. Well,
as it happens, the NYT Arts and Leisure section did a short stroy on this
very question a few weeks after Sweeney opened. I'm sure anyone who is more
computer-literate than myself, which means ALL of you, could easily find
this article in the NYT archives. It would have been in 20005, I think.
Worth reading, and the next time you complain about the difficulty of
playing a particular show, just be glad you're not up there having to act
it out, and doing w/o the parts, xeroxed or otherwise in front of you. db

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