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Re: Tony Awards

Author: DougR
Date: 2010-06-17 06:07

I assume Radio City wanted the orchestra pit area for sets and glitzy platforms and stuff. One year they had the Tony orchestra playing in the same building as Radio City, but on the 4th floor--linked via phone and video lines, I assume. This year apparently there was a fiberoptic link between Clinton Studios and RCMH. And while all of these guys are used to playing shows in cramped little black-box rooms set off from the main stage (sometimes even UNDER the main stage), and watching the conductor on a monitor, getting a cue mix through headphones, still....all the way across town?? Really, if you can do it from across town, you can do it from Omaha...or Toronto...or Bombay. It's not a serious issue yet for professionals, but it may soon be. A few years ago Broadway producers were all hot to substitute the "virtual orchestra" synthesizer for live musicians--now you can see the dollar signs dancing in their eyes as they contemplate hiring an orchestra in Mexico, link them fiberoptically to the theatre, and bingo, live music dirt cheap! (Hmm...each Broadway theatre has a mandated number of musicians required to play anytime there's a musical in that theatre. Wonder if the contracts stipulate that the musicians have to actually be IN the theatre? Maybe they could be in the Ukraine?)

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