Anyone play in a Broadway pit orchestra?

[RyRob813]

What show? How long have you been involved in the scene there, and did you come to be involved in it in the first place? What's an average weekly pay for someone that does this?

Thanks!

[AdlerAugen]

this should more likely be on the DB side of the forums since they're more likely to have an answer

[WJGreer]

Not Broadway, but a lot of my playing hours in college at the University of Texas were in pits. I played in seven or eight productions over three years, most were eight to twelve-week runs with one show each day plus matinees on weekends, with one dark day. I was a jazz guy, but these were nice, solid, long-ish well-paying gigs that I was happy to have. I made friends with an Austin producer-composer who was connected in the theater circle, so it sort of happened to me by fate.

Pay- most of the Broadway players are local 802 members, so they get scale. There is a lot of relevant information on this local 802 page. It looks like the gross weekly wage is $1539 if you do not double. Or $192 per performance.