BopEuph wrote:
EDIT: By the way, when you're in great productions of the show, there's nothing like the adrenaline rush you get when the MD screams "FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT!"
Our production uses a click track (no instruments in the track, it's just for timing the lights). It counts 1,2,3,4, before the conductor yells 5,6,7,8. There is no greater embarrassment or longer lasting jeer than coming in full steam after 4...
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KevinMadden wrote:Our production uses a click track (no instruments in the track, it's just for timing the lights). It counts 1,2,3,4, before the conductor yells 5,6,7,8. There is no greater embarrassment or longer lasting jeer than coming in full steam after 4...
Agreed. I know ships are so gung ho about click tracks, but that's just a bit much.
By the way, if I ever went back to ships, I'd want to do the Allure because you do Chicago! If you need a sub for your vacation breaks, let me know!
EDIT: By the way, when you're in great productions of the show, there's nothing like the adrenaline rush you get when the MD screams "FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT!"[/quote]
Amen to that! I did this show with a community theater group in Minneapolis about 15 years ago. Anytime/anywhere.
BopEuph wrote:
By the way, if I ever went back to ships, I'd want to do the Allure because you do Chicago! If you need a sub for your vacation breaks, let me know!
well, sadly, Chicago is moving on in just 5 weeks. The Allure is getting Mama Mia! which doesn't use the horn section at all . Thankfully the horn section is staying together for at least one more season so we can keep doing proper big band and brass quintet etc. (and I get to tour Europe for a few months woo-hoo!)
Ithaca College, B.M. 2009
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, M.M. 2017, D.M.A. 2020
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Wessex "Grand" BBb, Wessex Solo Eb, Wessex Dulce
KevinMadden wrote:well, sadly, Chicago is moving on in just 5 weeks. The Allure is getting Mama Mia! which doesn't use the horn section at all . Thankfully the horn section is staying together for at least one more season so we can keep doing proper big band and brass quintet etc. (and I get to tour Europe for a few months woo-hoo!)
Well, crap. Though the big ships doing musicals is better than some of those guest entertainers we had to back up. I remember some of these guys not being able to hold a light to some of the players in the band, yet lecturing us about how to play our instrument.
One guy had a James Brown show, and yelled at one of the horn players about something he did and said James wouldn't have allowed that. Horn player said "mother $*#$&er, I played with James, and he loved it when I did that!"
Dude wasn't reported by the MD, because he figured he was in the right.
I was asked to play this show two years ago, but our family was going through the final stages of cancer with my sister and I had to pass. It was a small sacrafice at the time, but I would sure like the chance to come around again.
. Thankfully the horn section is staying together for at least one more season so we can keep doing proper big band and brass quintet etc. (and I get to tour Europe for a few months woo-hoo!)
It was a small sacrafice at the time, but I would sure like the chance to come around again.