Heh that's always fun Wendy. Once during Once On This Island, my first year in pit, there was a very poignant moment at the end of the show, where Ti Moune sees her love one last time and you find out he just gave her a coin and then she essentially dies...during this whole thing, there's a beautiful clarinet solo I got to play(I love Flaherty...) but before that, we were on a vamp(repeating the same couple of measures). And I knew when we were supposed to leave the vamp, but our conductor kept screaming 22 which was the vamp so we kept vamping almost up until the solo was supposed to start. Finally he realized he was calling out the wrong number and was like oh ****, I mean 24! So ti Moune hit the floor just as I started the solo...kinda lost the impact and the actors kinda waited for me to finish...oh well, not my fault.
"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
