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#1

Plays with orchestras?

Just a random question: I was wondering, do any plays (not musicals) use a live band in the pit, off stage etc during the show? I know they're used for musicals, but for plays?
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#2

Plays with orchestras?

End of the Rainbow, currently playing in London, features a great on-stage six-piece band in the sections of the play where Judy Garland is doing her show.
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#3

Plays with orchestras?

Nora Ephron's IMAGINARY FRIENDS had an orchestra. Then again, it was a "play with music"...
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#4

Plays with orchestras?

CORAM BOY had a 7-piece chamber orchestra and an onstage choir.
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Salve, Salve Regina
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Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
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#5

Plays with orchestras?

All plays have orchestras. They are seats on the main floor, not to be confused with the mezzanine or the balcony.
#6

Plays with orchestras?

End of the Rainbow doesn't have that, darling, it has stalls Plays with orchestras? ^^
#7

Plays with orchestras?

Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn, is not a musical but calls for 7 actors and a full onstage orchestra.

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Updated On: 1/2/11 at 07:05 PM

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