What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
bwaybri2
Featured Actor Joined: 6/11/08
#1What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 4:36pm
Just noticed that Ragtime has nearly the same number of musicians in the pit as there are cast members on stage.
For you trivia buffs, what shows had larger pits than casts?
Thanks -
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#2re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:00pmI Do! I Do! for starters...
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
ghostlight2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/5/04
#2re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:37pm
James Joyce's The Dead had to be pretty close.
The Dead
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#3re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 5:44pm
I don't know if you would call it a pit but aren't there more band members then cast members in Next To Normal?
Sorry, that was the first think that came into my head.
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#4re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 6:10pmTell Me on a Sunday
#5re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 6:17pm
THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG
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trombonist
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#6re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 7:21pmnext to normal is 6 and 6.
NYnativeinLA
Chorus Member Joined: 12/30/04
#7re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 9:02pmThe Apple Tree
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#8re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 9:03pm
Romance/Romance (cast of 4)
Two By Two (cast of 
Triumph of Love (cast of 7)
The Rink (cast of 9)
The original Broadway prodiction of COMPANY (cast of 14 - plus the orchestra included three pit singers)
Off-Broadway:
The Last Five Years (cast of 2)
John and Jen (cast of 2)
#9re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 10:06pmThey're Playing Our Song
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#10re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/19/09 at 10:26pmRooms had 2 cast members and about 5 in the pit.
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#11re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/20/09 at 1:00am
tick, tick...BOOM! has three onstage and four in the band.
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#12re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/20/09 at 1:15amJust about all the musicals of the 30s through the 60s had as many players in the pit as performers on the stage if not more
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#13re: What shows had more people in the pit than in the cast?
Posted: 11/20/09 at 1:37am
The Story of My Life.
2 actors and 9(?) musicians.
...this bird is singing.
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