BYE BYE BIRDIE '09 orchestra

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:31pm

I bet a lot of people are going to want to know this, too, so if anyone has the playbill from any performance of the show, could you post the orchestra members here for me and whoever else wants to know?

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:39pm

Music Director/Keyboard - 1

Reeds- 4

Trumpets- 3

Trombone- 1

Drums- 1

Bass- 1

Guitar- 1

Viola- 2

Cello- 2

Synthesizer programmer- 1

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:41pm

That's a great instrumentation (great job, Jonathan Tunick, again!).
Now the players are...

[bjh2114]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 1:46pm

Music Director/Keyboard - David Holcenberg (Associate is Mat Eistenstein)

Reeds- Les Scott, Ralph Olsen, Thomas Christensen, Mark Thrasher

Trumpets- Donald Downs, Stu Satalof, Barry Danielian

Trombone- Vincent Fanuele

Drums- Paul Pizzuti

Bass- Ray Kilday

Guitar- Scott Kuney

Viola- Kenneth Burward-Hoy, Liuh-Wen Ting

Cello- Sarah Seiver, Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf

Synthesizer programmer- Bruce Samuels

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 2:09pm

Nice! I know most of those people, so I can tell that's going to be a great pit.
Thanks bjh2114!

[KirbyCat]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 2:34pm

"Guitar- Scott Kuney"
Haha I go to school with his daughter!

[boyfromoz2]

Posted: 9/16/09 at 2:35pm

Is it a bit bizarre to anyone else that there are no Violins, only Viola and Cello?

[Josh Freilich]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 5:39pm

Not bizarre to me. There were a few shows on Broadway that only had viola and cello sections in lieu of violins. The original orchestrations for FORUM are a perfect example, because then they added violins for the touring version. And the string section in KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN consists of mainly violas. (Or maybe they also doubled on violin... hmm...) And all violinists in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS doubled on electric violins and violas (except of course for the concertmaster, Antoine Silverman).

Updated On: 9/17/09 at 05:39 PM

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 9/17/09 at 6:05pm

I preferred the Birdie y2k orchestra to Birdie 09