What have I learned from playing Beauty and the Beast?
1. My high range accuracy improves with repeated repetition. (I know...duh!)
2. Playing broadway shows are definitely a wonderful study in endurance.
3. Broadway composers are definitely good craftsmen. They make short, recognizable tunes which they then spin out and use over and over in different ways that you don't realize they do until you actually think about it.
4. You meet and get to know some really great people in the pit.
5. Seeing how adjustments made by the actors/singers over time affect the audience's response.
6. Thorough warm up and warm down are important!
7. Sightreading is a good habit to learn--though it can only improve by doing it.
8. Playing in the pit is actually fun...if you make it fun! :)
Just some general observations about my week-long run of Beauty and the Beast.
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Playing in pit is wonderful fun! I had the oppurtunity to play percussion in "The Nutcracker" (yes, the whole thing!) this past December, and there are not many more rewarding experiences. I'd love to play a Broadway show sometime!
Indeed, it was fun! Making lasting connections with the fellow pit players is awesome as well!
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