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Hello TMA member,
I
am pleased to present to you a set of questions to be considered when
you and your locals enter into discussions regarding return-to-work
protocols with theater producers and management. This document is being
sent to all Local officers by the AFM International President’s office,
and will also appear in the upcoming issue of the International
Musician. However, I wanted you all to see it as soon as it was approved
by the International Executive Board and AFM President Ray Hair.
I would like to thank all the TMA chapter directors for their insightful
input as this document was being developed, and also National TMA Vice
President Heather Boehm and Secretary/Treasurer Mark Pinto for their
invaluable assistance in its creation.
In
Solidarity,
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Members: Introducing the Audience to the PitMusical theatre and
technology have always had a bit of an uneasy relationship. The modern
musical was born out of the light opera traditions of Gilbert and Sullivan
in the 19th century, where it was the norm for large pit orchestras to
accompany the singers on stage. The “Golden Age Of Theatre (1940’s-1960’s)
saw the premiers of many of the classics of the art form by the likes of
Porter, Berlin, Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin, and culminating with the
shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein. As a rule, those shows used large
orchestras. Oklahoma (1943) used 28 musicians in the pit, and Carousel
(1945) had an orchestra of 39. Not only did audiences expect a show to have
an ensemble of this size, there was no viable technology that could replace
musicians.
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