Question for anyone who's played Chicago the Musical

[BopEuph]

Heh, I've done this show a number of times, once on a failed tour with West End performers. In both revival cast recordings, the tuba comes down the octave (though I think I might have heard a switch to bass in one), and the original cast recording has a very able tuba player hitting every written note. I'm going to work on getting more accuracy on the upper range, but I've been playing that down the octave. By the way, I peeked at the MD's score once, and I recall an instrument playing an octave lower than the written range on tuba in a section of the number...I think it was bass clarinet?

As for paying attention--I practically have the entire show memorized, as I've probably performed it around fifty times! My advice is to memorize the book!

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