Ad
related to: broadway pit musicians leaving- View All Shows
See What's Playing on Broadway.
View All Shows On Sale Now.
- View All Musicals
Browse All Musicals on Broadway.com
Get Tickets Today.
- Tickets By Date
Select Your Preferred Date To
View the List Of Tickets Available.
- Moulin Rouge! The Musical
See the Winner of 10 Tony Awards
Live on Broadway. Get Tickets Now
- View All Shows
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A pit orchestra is a type of orchestra that accompanies performers in musicals, operas, ballets, and other shows involving music. The term was also used for orchestras accompanying silent movies when more than a piano was used. [ 1 ]
The Vivino brothers were experienced New York session musicians and had been members of various Broadway pit bands. They recruited the final two members of the band, Healy and Merritt, who had played together in various bands such as Jimmy Vivino & The Black Italians and The Vivino Brothers Band. [ 2 ]
Tommy Igoe founded The Friday Night Big Band with musicians from a big band that was in residence at Birdland. That band was founded and directed by Lew Anderson , who died in 2006. After Igoe took over, he changed the name to Birdland Big Band and built a repertoire of contemporary compositions, original arrangements , and select historical ...
Rachel Zegler and Kit Connor took their final Broadway bow together on Sunday, Feb. 16, as the acclaimed revival of Romeo + Juliet ended its 20-week limited engagement at the Circle in the Square ...
A few weeks ago, the orchestra for Broadway's West Side Story was gutted. In a cost-cutting measure, five violinists were told to clean out their lockers, and their parts were replaced by a ...
All the women are active New York string players, playing in Broadway pit orchestras, major music festivals and more. "We don't play any Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn or Brahms," Metcalf said.
325 musicians from Local 802 were joined by 650 actors from the Actors' Equity Association and 350 stagehands from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in the strike. [2] The loss of employees from these unions caused all Broadway musicals (except Cabaret , which had a different contract because it was performed at Studio 54 ...
It starred Karen Ziemba as Rita Racine, Daniel McDonald as Bill Kelly, Gregory Harrison as Mick Hamilton, Debra Monk as Shelby Stevens, and Kristin Chenoweth, making her Broadway debut, as Precious. David Loud was the music director and created the vocal arrangements. The show opened to mixed reviews, most praising the performances and score.