Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#0Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:06pm
I can name a few that I've seen:
Strike Up the Band, The Pajama Game, Bye Bye Birdie, The Apple Tree (all of them were City Center ENCORES! productions under the musical direction of Rob Fisher and either the Coffee Club Orchestra or the ENCORES! Orchestra)
Smokey Joe's Cafe
Swing!
Annie Get Your Gun (1999 Revival)
The Music Man (2000 Revival, overture only though)
Rent
The Rocky Horror Show
Big River (2003 Roundabout Revival)
Fiddler on the Roof (2004 Revival)
The Boy from Oz (only at the top of the second act)
Brooklyn? (The Playbill Yearbook lists this as one but I'm not so sure since they come out at curtain call.)
And soon to see:
Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (of course)
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Updated On: 12/19/05 at 09:06 PM
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#1re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:07pmI don't remember BKLYN's being onstage.
#2re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:08pmI can't believe you didn't list Chicago!
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
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And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
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"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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I remember days
Or at least I try
But as years go by
They're sort of haze
And the bluest ink
Isn't really sky
And at times I think
I would gladly die
For a day of sky
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
And Starbucks will use the words 'large' and 'small', not pretentious crap like grande and tall.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"You could get away with anything if you call it art and tell people who don't like it that it's cutting edge culture." --vmlinnie
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roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#3re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:08pm
"Cabaret", "Songs for a New World", "Big River" (sometimes).
And of course, all the actor/musician shows ("Pump Boys", "Radio Gals", etc.)
I ask in all honesty/What would life be?/Without a song and a dance, what are we?/So I say "Thank you for the music/For giving it to me."
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#4re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:08pmBecause I didn't see Chicago.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
BwayLeadman
Broadway Star Joined: 9/29/04
kelly0ann
Stand-by Joined: 12/19/05
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#7re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:11pmWhile we're talking about this, just like I'm crazy about musicals with banjos, I'm crazy about musicals with the orchestra/band onstage.
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
RuprechtJr.
Featured Actor Joined: 6/22/05
#9re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:15pmJekyll & Hyde...their pit was at the (looking at the stage) upper left hand corner. If you look closley during "Murder, Murder" you can see the conductor's hand going up and down furiously...wait that didn't come out right...and neither did that...Anyway don't turn this into a "Hasselhoff Hate Thread".
jasobres
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/9/05
#10re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 9:17pm
"Grease" ~ kelly0ann
Yeah, but which version?
P.S. The interesting thing with Rent is that Jonathan Larson originally wanted a rock band onstage (which he got) and a traditional Broadway orchestra in the pit (which he didn't get, and not a single musician has played in that pit ever since).
"Ev'ry-buddy wants ta get into de act!"
- Jimmy Durante
"Breathe from your hoo-hoo."
-Kristin Chenoweth
Updated On: 12/19/05 at 09:17 PM
wickedrentq
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/6/04
#11re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:03pmWell the musicians in Chita are technically on the stage, though somewhat hidden behind a curtain.
"If there was a Mount Rushmore for Broadway scores, "West Side Story" would be front and center. It snaps, it crackles it pops! It surges with a roar, its energy and sheer life undiminished by the years" - NYPost reviewer Elisabeth Vincentelli
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
#13re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:11pmI've seen a few productions of Godspell with the musical ensemble on stage.
Isabella2
Broadway Star Joined: 10/6/05
#15re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:16pmCHICAGO is one of the ultimates.
TheEnchantedHunter
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/27/05
#16re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:20pm
BARNUM, I LOVE MY WIFE
Daisy Gamble
NYC, NY
#17re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:21pmAin't Misbehavin'
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#18re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:22pmDoes this production of Sweeney count?
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
heaja123
Understudy Joined: 5/9/05
#20re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/19/05 at 10:40pmumm how could you forget GOOD VIBRATIONS!
bare_nakedlady
Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#21re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/20/05 at 12:27am
I can't Believe no one has said Suzanne Somers' THE BLONDE IN THE THUNDERBIRD! 
"It's like children's theatre for 40-year old gay people!" - XANADU THE MUSICAL
#22re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/20/05 at 1:41amfootloose
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
#23re: Musicals with the Orchestra/Band onstage
Posted: 12/20/05 at 2:26amThe main time I noticed it, I treated my neice to one of the very firt ever tours of "Chicago" and our seats were IN the orchestra pitt. It was raised up to floor level and it was so strange to keep getting little "Hi there, We see you are sitting up here with us!" winks from the cast onstage, LOL! It was funny because it was her first Theater piece and she handled it very well and has become a Theater admirer in her own right. Maybe all those little winks payed off, LOL!
"It is bad enough that people are dying of AIDS, but no one should die of ignorance." -
Elizabeth Taylor
rent_nodaybuttoday
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/05
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