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Originally Posted by MrClean  I just saw the touring production of ST last night - it is a shadow of the original, which I saw in NY back in 1980 (Wilmer, I assume you were in the pit for that one). On one hand it was very disappointing, but on the other hand it was interesting to see how much could be adapted/covered by the small ensemble, which did an admirable job. There was no pit orchestra - the actors actually played all the instruments in addition to acting their parts. No conductor. It was impressive, but nowhere near the impact of the original. At $90/ticket X 4 (and we were near the back of the theater), it left me wondering if the investors' expectations of profit margins weren't set just a wee bit too high.
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The first Broadway production was massive. The Uris Theater, now called the Gershwin Theater, was fairly new.We did not have niceties like heat in the pit. I wore a Navy pea coat for part of the run. Angela liked the theater cold........she had her wish. There was an army of actors on stage. One innovation was the stagehands in costume moving stuff around. The actors were also pushing stuff.
The pit was not really insulated from the outside world, so every night we got fumes from the garage which the pit was directly above
Stephen's music and the orchestrations of Jonathan Tunick still ring in my ear.........we sat in front of the trombones
Jim, you experienced Broadway's finest.
Wilmer
Wilmer