Addams Family Orchestrations

[Gmerchant123]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 6:20pm

Hello. We're Doing Addams Family next year and don't have a enough of a budget to afford a full pit of musicians that the score calls for. Is there any solution to minimize and reduce the number of instruments and just have the necessary stuff? Thank you!

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 7:29pm

Umm... yeah... you just said the solution. Minimize and reduce the number of instruments and just use the necessary stuff. A good musical director will be able to help you with that. I'm not exactly sure of the legality, but I know a lot of low budget regional companies do that.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 7:35pm

"Low budget regional companies"? Well if that isn't a little bit of a slap... Lol.

TRW, who license Addams family, offer one of the better digital orchestra augmentation systems should definitely be offering that for Addams Family if you check their website,

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 7:42pm

I didn't mean it that way. How else should I describe a company with monitary restrictions? I've certainly seen my share of brilliant regional productions that were staged with very little. I was just trying to point out that it's not uncommon for these companies to use their own reduced orchestration.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 5/11/14 at 9:11pm

Every company, of any size has limitations.
And the vast majority of theatres reduce or augment in some fashion. Clearly the licensing houses are well aware.