Orchestra question:

My symphony teacher told us how he has to learn some banjo for ANYTHING GOES which my school is in the process of rehearsing right now. I don't know the extent of how much it is used however.

I worked on HIGH SOCIETY (Cole Porter) at the Shaw Festival last year, and our guitarist also played banjo and ukelele... Hope that helps. :)

I believe Chicago and Thoroughly Modern Millie uses some banjo in their overtures. I'm not aware how many other times it is used in Millie, but I'd say Chicago uses it rather sparsely. They seem to use a mandolin more right?

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"I've got a fever, and the only cure for my fever is MORE BANJO!"

I believe in Pirate Queen the guitarist uses banjo only for "Boys Will Be Boys", but I'm not certain about that.

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42nd Street. The Gtr chair has a two bar Banjo solo in "We're in the Money".

I got some more:

DAMN YANKEES ("Shoeless Joe", and, of course, the spot where it is mentioned in the "Overture", and kicks off with a furious banjo solo). Other than that, it is all guitar.
THE PAJAMA GAME '06 (banjo on "Once-A-Year Day", and tenor uke on "The Three Of Us")
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS '03 (mandolin on "Mushnik and Son")
WICKED (guitar 1 doubles banjo on "Have a little drink" section of "No One Mourns," mandolin on "Something Bad" and "Thank Goodness, and guitar 2 doubles banjo on "Thank Goodness" and "Wonderful")
GODSPELL (ukelele on "All For The Best")
PIPPIN (banjo on "War Is A Science" and "Glory" dance)
THE BOY FROM OZ (banjo on "When I Get My Name in Lights" and "Everything Old Is New Again")
AVENUE Q (banjo on part of "It Sucks To Be Me," "If You Were Gay," and "My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada")

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The original orchestration is Piano, Keyboard (Wurlitzer, CX-3 and Synthesizer stacked), Guitar, Bass and Drums.

C is for Company: In addition to the overture, you can hear a banjo playing in Millie during:

Not for the Life of Me
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Not for the Life of Me (both reprises)
They Don't Know
Forget About the Boy
Muquin
Long as I'm Here With You
Gimme Gimme

I went through my iTunes playlist and tried to listen.

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Because obviously there's somebody like me on these boards who is a pit nerd and notices that on the CDs or in concert.

And by the way, millie_dillmount, there's also a very BRIEF moment in "How the Other Half Lives" (the part where Millie goes "Poor? Not me, honey"), where the guitarist improvises a down-home slide guitar riff on the acoustic. Sounds good.

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Just from memory I'm thinking there's a banjo in a couple of numbers - maybe more - in Mack and Mabel.

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Curtains has prominent banjo work in "Show People," "Thataway!," the Entr'acte, "It's a Business" and "In the Same Boat 3". The player alternates between acoustic Guitar, electric guitar, banjo, and classical guitar throughout the show.

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I just found some others:

SHREK (there is only banjo in "Travel Song" but that part isn't on the CD)
HAIR (they put banjo on "Yes I's Finished On Y'alls Farmlands" and the Dixieland section of "3-5-0-0" - probably the reason was because it was primarily an instrument with African ancestry).

Would BILLY ELLIOT ("Expressing Yourself") count, or does the guitarist have a banjo sound on the guitar synthesizer known as "Variax"?

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