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Re: Pit Orchestras

Author: BassClarinetGirl
Date: 2005-12-21 03:45

I was in the pit orchestra playing tenor saxophone for my high schools production of Grease this year. The actual high-schoolers in the pit were the other tenor saxophone player and the trap set player. The piano part was traded off between two professional pianists. My high school band/chior director was both musical director and pit director. The guitar parts were covered by the athletics director/dean of my school, the principal of the elementry school, and the science teacher in the middle school. These three guitarists were COMPLETELY ADHD prone!!!! We (the high schoolers with rather impressive attention spans, compared to the adults) got rather fed up with them when they would enthusiastically begin to play the "I walk the line" song whenever the pit wasn't playing- including when actors were on the stage trying to act. Thankfully, however, the performances were put on without a hitch, except for the fact that we ended up playing one scene change about 20 too many times. Luckily, it was a fairly interesting one, so it wasn't the worst thing that could have happened.

It was an amazing experience none the less. I did discover that I LOVE being in the pit, and I also fell in love with theatre, which inspired me to audition for one act play, which I got a part in!

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