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Re: Pit Band Horror Stories

Author: fromsfca
Date: 2016-05-04 05:46

I played a summer stock in the round theater with the pit under the stage. Acts I and II began with the orchestra marching onto the stage and down the ladder into the pit with our white dinner jackets, bow ties and tuxedo pants. One night, the stage manager said orch call for act II was delayed 10 minutes...I lit a cigarette when the stage manager called orchestra to the pit. As I was 4th reed, I was last guy in....I stuck my (newly lit) cig into the sand ash tray...it looked out, so I stuck it in my jacket pocket.

We walk down to the stage and I'm standing waiting for the guys to descend looking for cute girls, when I feel someone tugging on my jacket. I look down at a guy in the 1st row who says "excuse me, but I think you're on fire".... The white side of my jacket smoking a great deal. One of the guys tears the jacket off my back and throws it on the stage stomping on it.

We got the best ovation of the night.

Although I had to wear the jacket for another 4 weeks with the right side smoke blackened...try buyin a white dinner jacket in August.

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