| Theater show with a sloppy score
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I do one or two shows a year for various local theater groups. They are quite good for the most part, especially considering that the budget is sometimes pretty restrictive.
Anyway, I just finished a week of "The Taffetas" yesterday. It's a tribute to pre- rock & roll 50s music as sung by a quartet of girls. (Johnny Angel, Mr. Sandman, Sh-Boom, etc.)
We got the score from whoever owns the rights in NYC, and it was clear that they put it together in a hurry. I was completely missing pages on two different songs, my song numbers were different from the drummer's and piano player's, and that wasn't the worst.
Any of you who have played theater stuff know that there are a lot of mid-song key, tempo, time signature, and feel changes. This show had several medleys, so it was chock full of those. That's not a problem, and it makes the music interesting, but the problem was that in my score and the piano player's they were often poorly labelled or not labelled at all. Sometimes he had ritards written and I didn't, sometimes I had accidentals and he didn't, and so on.
Anyway, we figured it out and had a good time with this show, and I definitely got improved ears out of the deal.
Is this a pretty normal experience? It was a first for me.
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