Author: DougR
Date: 2005-03-11 21:19
There's another aspect to the theatre-musician scene I haven't yet seen described on this site: the variability of the accommodations for musicians.
I have a friend who's subbing pretty regularly on Broadway, and he describes situations where you may or may NOT have headphones providing you an overall sound mix; the mix may or may NOT include your instrument (each horn is individually miked and runs into the house PA); the headphones may be over-the-ear, or may be those cheesy little Walkman things; you may or may not even be able to hear yourself at ALL; where you may only see the conductor over a video monitor...talk about a demanding situation!!
My favorite horror story of his: occasionally he subs on the new Beach Boys musical (Good Vibrations I think is the title, that would seem logical) playing the following: bass sax, bass clarinet, baritone-tenor-alto sax, a little flute, maybe some clarinet (I forget). But it's not what he plays, it's WHERE: all by himself, under the stage, in a room he shares with the front end of a Corvette (which ascends on cue thru a trapdoor onto the stage) and two stagehands to caretake the Corvette. He's connected to the conductor via video monitor, and to the rest of the orchestra thru headphones and multiple mikes; he may as well be playing in an orbiting satellite!
If you can hack THAT (and one has to, to work in that marketplace) you can really do anything!
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