Oh, absolutely. To the extent that it was a really big deal a couple of years ago when I finally got paid the same as the lighting designer on a show! (and it wasn't even that they went into the production with the intention of parity. They came to…
This brings up the subject of the decline in usage of live music in theatre for the last few decades. The advent of recorded music and the technology to manipulate it in the modern era has resulted in music being a bit of a black hole in the majorit…
With most other shows I'm recording it all at home and putting it to CD/computer, but that show needed old-timey music I couldn't easily replicate at home. Fortunately I know some excellent musicians who are in the local theater scene and as such we…
Interesting that you had a live band come in to track parts so they could be used on CD for the actual show. Some of the theatrical companies I've pitched for work in the past are seriously cutting back on budgets for productions, so I've taken to r…
Thanks for starting a fresh discussion, Ed. I've been trying to think of stuff to talk about but it all comes out kinda half-baked.
I haven't done too much in terms of live music; the last live group I had onstage was a 5-piece band for "Ellen Unde…
Not much activity on this particular board lately, so I'm going to toss something out for discussion.
With the shrinking budgets all of us in theatre are facing, are you scoring for fewer instruments? Hiring fewer musicians and using some combinati…
Laurie:
These days, I don't know anyone who will open an e-mail attachment from someone they don't know. Until I've had enough e-mail exchange with someone to know they're legit, I certainly don't. For that matter, I've gotten e-mails with attachme…