do you applaud the orchestra?
do you applaud the orchestra?
#0do you applaud the orchestra?
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:14pm
when the musical is over, and the orchestra is doing the play out music, why don't more people clap for them when they are done? I am always the one to start it, and sometimes it's only me who is clapping, like the other people can't be bothered to clap for the musicians becuase they werent' on stage. but hey, they were still performing, and they are half the show.
do you clap for the musicians? I think they deserve it.
#1re: do you applaud the orchestra?
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:15pmAlways!
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#2re: do you applaud the orchestra?
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:16pmAlways. and it bothers me that the whole audience doesn't.
#3Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:17pmWithout musicians, there is no show! Always applaud musicians! It takes so much muscular endurance to play every night for over two hours, especially if you are a brass player. They deserve extra applause, if any.
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#4Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:17pmAbsolutely!
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#5Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:19pmEvery time. I make it a point to stay in the theatre until they finish so I can, unless I am running out for some reason.
#6Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:20pmIf I stay through the end of their piece I will. if I'm alone I'll always stay, but if I'm with like my family or certain friends, they might not want to wait it out.
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#7Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:20pmOh, I agree with everyone. The orchestra works hard and gets no appreciation for it. I usually throw in a cheer for them as well. It's sort of like no one wants to clap for the people behind the scenes. But, come on! I want to clap for the lighting people!
#8Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:21pmI'm not sure that most people even realize that there is an orchestra. Hell, they can't even be bothered to stay for curtain calls.
#9Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:22pmI'm glad you all share the same view. I think they are so underappreciated and audiences today just don't get it.
#10Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:23pm
I only applaud for the orchestra if it's a musical. 
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:25pm99% of the time, I'm LONG gone by the time they finish playing. Once the curtain call is finished, I'm out the door as quickly as humanly possible.
#12Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:27pmSorry to threadjack, but boobs, your avatar is awesome.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#13Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:35pmMargo, I'm shocked and disappointed. With your throng of fans, I'd think you'd be there signing autographs for quite awhile after every show...with a small break to applaud the band.
Di2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/18/04
#14Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:37pm
autographs??
Who is Margo??? Is she famous? Should I know of her??
#15Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:37pmMargo hates fans. They give her a rash.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#16Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 12:51pmDefinetly! Always clap for the orchestra. I always clap for the tech people too, or I try to if possible. Actors aren't the only people who work on shows.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#17Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:03pmRath, I heard Margo gets rashes from anything furry, too. True or untrue?
#18Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:04pm
Margo's a diva. No autographs. I mean, you guys, OBVIOUSLY.
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#19Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:08pmI too try to stay for the end of the exit music, but sometimes I'm w/ others or want to rush to the stagedoor. But if nothing else, when they are acknowledged by the cast, I applaud, scream, cheer and stand for them if I'm not already standing for the cast. Every so often, people will join in which thrills me. But yeah, always a chance if you're at a show and hear someone screaming for the pit, that's me.
#20Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:13pmThe orchestra doesn't get enough respect considering they MAKE the musical. I hate that actors have to gesture to the conductor before people applaud, because I feel like the orchestra is just as, if not more important than most of the people that came for the curtain call. It just seems like the gesturing is there because the conductor bowing on his own wouldn't be enough, it has to be literally pointed out to the audience before they acknowledged the musicians.
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#21Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:23pm
"Autograph fiends, they're not people. Those are little beasts that run around in packs like coyotes...They're nobody's fans. They're juvenile delinquent, they're mental defective, and nobody's audience. They never see a play or a movie even. They're never indoors long enough."
-- All About Eve
#22Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:24pm
PRECISELY, Margo.
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#23Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:37pmlike coyotes? really? i was gonna say like asexual planeria (looking up into the microscope, smiling, creating more and more of themselves, and being a general symptom of disease and infestation)
pattifan2
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/12/04
#24Musicians need more applause!
Posted: 10/4/05 at 1:40pmWhen the actors gesture to the orchestra, I like to think the orchestra are getting their own 'call'. I think it's great to give the orchestra their own applause, too, after play-out. Have to say, some of the shows I've seen, the orchestra have literally made the show.
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