Plays with orchestras?
Plays with orchestras?
#1Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 6:21amJust 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?
#2Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 7:39amEnd 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.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 9:40amNora Ephron's IMAGINARY FRIENDS had an orchestra. Then again, it was a "play with music"...
#3Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 10:22amCORAM BOY had a 7-piece chamber orchestra and an onstage choir.
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Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
tommyboy
Broadway Star Joined: 12/21/06
#4Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 5:55pmAll plays have orchestras. They are seats on the main floor, not to be confused with the mezzanine or the balcony.
#5Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 6:24pm
End of the Rainbow doesn't have that, darling, it has stalls 
^^
#6Plays with orchestras?
Posted: 1/2/11 at 7:05pm
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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