Author: clarinets1
Date: 2006-12-09 16:27
Just recently I was playing in band for "A Chorus Line". great show.
anyway, about halfway through the first act, all of the lights in the pit went out! I could just barely make out my music from the glow of the television being used as a monitor. no such luck for the brass players behind me. of course the show can't stop, so while the director and tech guys try to figure out how to get the lights back on, the dancers backstage with us lit up our music with the glow from their cell phones. after about two minutes of faking it, the lights came back on and we finished the rest of the show with no incident.
another time, i was in a pit playing "you're a good man charlie brown". there is a baseball scene in that musical, and the actor swung his wiffle bat, and lost his grip, flinging it into the audience. no one was injured, but it was funny.
the show must go on.
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