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Author: stewie3128
Date: 2006-01-25 19:57
An outstanding NoHo theatre company (12 Ovation Awards last year) is in immediate need of an experienced Clarinetist for an upcoming mainstage musical. Pay is $50/performance, with 32 performances scheduled. Shows are Thursday-Saturday nights, and Sunday afternoons Feb. 2nd-March 29th.
Cast, artistic staff and pit orchestra are all very talented, theater is only two years old, top notch lights and sound - a first rate production all around. It is a beautiful, newly remodeled facility with lots of space for the orchestra.
Requirements: Must be an excellent reader and player with a positive attitude, and prerably a good sense of humor. Double on tenor or alto sax is a plus, though not necessary. Your book is already assembled, and the music staff will handle any rescoring, if necessary.
First rehearsal is tonight (Wednesday, 01/25/06) at 7.
Again, the pay is $50/performance for 32 performances.
Please respond to stewie3128 at mac dot com, or call me (A.J.) at 310-691-2855.
Thanks.
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Author: JGM
Date: 2006-01-25 21:16
I imagine you could get half an orchestra from certain parts of Eastern Europe to work for that rate. Its called displacement!!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2006-01-25 21:27
$50 per performance (about 3 hours) + your own travel time?
Sounds about like the going rate for a non-union gig.
Welcome to the world of stuggling free-lance musicians.
The sad thing? While many of us wouldn't leave the house for less than $150, there will be MANY MORE who need work and would take the gig...GBK
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2006-01-25 22:42
And the doubling rate is what - more chair space between you and the next player .............?
;)
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Author: Jenab
Date: 2006-01-26 01:15
I'd take it for grins and let them keep the money, except I'm not into performing anymore. I'm spend my time raising goats and finding transfer orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt. I only play my clarinets now in the summers when it's warm on the front porch. My house is on a low rise with lots of higher hillsides in every direction, and it makes outdoor playing sound like a huge auditorium! Unfortunately, I don't get the full effect, but somebody standing 50 feet behind me does, according to my brother who paid me a visit last July.
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Author: chuck
Date: 2006-01-26 02:25
$200 per week and how many free rehearsals? That would require a very good sense of humor. Chuck
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Author: David Spiegelthal ★2017
Date: 2006-01-26 05:38
In DC, the going rate for non-Union shows (in other words, nearly all shows) is $20-25 per service, if that much. 32 years ago, when I was in high school, the going rate was also $20-25 per show --- but inflation has increased prices by a factor of, what, four or five since then? Yep, music is a great business.
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Author: Gobboboy
Date: 2006-01-26 12:58
Hi - I'm not proud.. I'll take it. But only if you pay my travel costs.....I live in London, England xx
Struggling is the best way to put it GBK!!
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Author: JGM
Date: 2006-01-27 22:08
Oops, it seems that the USA is the new third world for musicians. Maybe that should have been obivious to me before now. Just shows the importance of unions. I wonder if the sound or light people are getting $50 a gig!!!!!
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Author: DavidBlumberg
Date: 2006-01-27 22:36
Getting 12 Ovation Awards last year should put you guys in a position to pay your musicians decently unless you are not charging admission which I kinda doubt......
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Author: Tom Puwalski
Date: 2006-01-27 23:18
$20 That's what I pay my clarinet tech on Weddings and Bar Mitsvahs. For that he carries it in from the car, puts on the mic, hits my preset tone control and then makes sure I have a bowl of brown W&Ws, he once tried to pass me M&Ms instead, I got a new tech. You try training these people and they just don't get it.
Tom Puwalski, former soloist with the US Army Field Band, Clarinetist with Lox&Vodka, and Author of "The Clarinetist's Guide to Klezmer"and most recently by the order of the wizard of Oz, for supreme intelligence, a Masters in Clarinet performance
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Author: Wes
Date: 2006-01-28 20:25
In Los Angeles, one used to be able to travel to many of these kind of affairs. However, in the last 10 to 20 years, the traffic has made it almost impossible to accept such employment unless you live nearby. To travel from the South Bay to North Hollywood for a musical performance with a call time of 7:30 would require one to leave home before 5:30, making the total time needed at least 7 hours away from home! The union does not find it practical to monitor the multitude of non-union gigs as they do not have the resources to do so.
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