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| re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 10:45 am EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) - pecansforall 10:39 am EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| I imagine that they did, or they had some sort of equivalent solution. The conductor was visible in the original production. Personally, I can't imagine doing A Chorus Line without some sort of contact between conductor and cast - and I've done a number of shows exactly that way in regional theatre. |
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| re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) | |
| Posted by: pecansforall 11:43 am EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) - Chromolume 10:45 am EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| The conductor was visible in the original production. Are you sure that the conductor was visible in the original production? I'm not trying to doubt but I've been sort of obsessed with the show since the seventies and I don't think it ever dawned on me that the conductor would have possibly been visible. |
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| re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:47 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) - pecansforall 11:43 am EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| I saw the production - I believe it was in the spring of 1980 (a school trip). I could see the conductor from where I was sitting. I specifically remember his cutoff at the end of the show (I was wondering how that would work in the theatre, as it's of course iconically a fadeout on the cast recording). | |
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| re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 04:23 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: hidden orchestras (A CHORUS LINE) - Chromolume 01:47 pm EDT 06/02/23 | |
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| When it was at the Public, of course, the orchestra was backstage, and the conductor was not visible. And that was in pre-monitor days. Shows where the conductor was not visible to the actors managed to survive without monitors back in the past. There weren't that many back then, but there were some. Probably more Off-Broadway. | |
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