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| Everybody Grab a Kazoo: Musician’s Union and HERE LIES LOVE Reach New Deal | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 03:42 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| Link | https://www.thebroadwaybeat.com/post/kazoo-musician-union-here-lies-love |
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| Kazoo as a Broadway instrument - and not | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 12:48 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 12:42 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
| In reply to: Everybody Grab a Kazoo: Musician’s Union and HERE LIES LOVE Reach New Deal - Unhookthestars 03:42 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| Most people out here are probably aware of the marvelously whimsical use of the kazoo as a pit instrument in How To Succeed - the wind players all double on kazoo in the middle of "I Believe In You" to represent an electric razor as Finch shaves in preparation for the big advertising meeting. I think it's one of the most wonderfully silly - and apt - bits of unconventional orchestration in a Broadway show. Thank you, orchestrator Red Ginzler. Then I got a look at the full score for the most recent revival of the show, to see that the kazoo sound was put in the synth part, so that the reed players could be playing other things during that section. Synth kazoo. That's right. Even the damn kazoo can get replaced. I have to admit, as a keyboard player yet - that makes me angry. Can't we really just have real kazoos, for god's sake? (And I've always been a huge fan of Doug Besterman's work - but I really wish I could slug him for that.) |
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| No real kazoos? | |
| Posted by: showtunetrivia 01:18 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
| In reply to: Kazoo as a Broadway instrument - and not - Chromolume 12:42 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
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| That’s appalling! Even I can play a kazoo! Hell, I can play a comb, too. What penny pinching reason did they give for this? Laura in LA |
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| re: No real kazoos? | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:23 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
| In reply to: No real kazoos? - showtunetrivia 01:18 pm EDT 06/04/23 | |
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| It's because the orchestration here is busier than the original at that point (something which could have been avoided IMO), and there wasn't a section of players available to actually play the kazoos. (Originally it was a double for the 5 reed players). | |
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| WARNING: IT'S JUST CLICKBAIT! NM | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:11 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
| In reply to: Everybody Grab a Kazoo: Musician’s Union and HERE LIES LOVE Reach New Deal - Unhookthestars 03:42 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| Not clickbait, just a joke | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 05:11 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
| In reply to: WARNING: IT'S JUST CLICKBAIT! NM - ryhog 04:11 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| But is it funny? Mildly. Maybe. YMMV | |
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| "But is it funny?" A little too soon, I'd say | |
| Posted by: waterfall 06:48 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
| In reply to: Not clickbait, just a joke - Singapore/Fling 05:11 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| This isn't a laughing matter at the moment when writers and musicians are fighting for their very livelihoods, imo. | |
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| I thought it was satire | |
| Posted by: Ann 04:19 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
| In reply to: WARNING: IT'S JUST CLICKBAIT! NM - ryhog 04:11 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| I think they're often pretty funny. | |
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| re: I thought it was satire | |
| Posted by: Unhookthestars 10:24 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
| In reply to: I thought it was satire - Ann 04:19 pm EDT 06/03/23 | |
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| As the original poster, I’m going to weigh in and say it’s not clickbait. Is it funny? I thought so, but as always, your mileage may vary. Broadway Beat is our community’s The Onion, so I would agree with the characterization of the piece as “satire.” | |
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