I did "Crazy for you" in 2001. There is no full score. I was the music director for the production playing the piano from the rehearsal score. I had one synth player who played from the synth book plus a bunch of pickup players to make an orchestra of about 10 or so.
This is an extremely demanding show. There are several big keyboard numbers. The saloon piano part is in the synth book but sounds better played on a real piano. The 1st act finale is a killer! Seven minutes of "I Got Rhythm" full-tilt. "Slap that bass" and "Nice work if you can get it" are also very busy. We took a big cut in dance bridge of "Slap". Someplace in the second act are two or three pages from "Concerto in F". I went into the show after it had been in rehearsal for a few weeks. Reading through the 2nd act when I came across the passage I turned to the producer/director '"Concerto in F" costs extra!' And I got it! It is a fun show but very tiring. We did several double-headers (matinee and evening) and I was always dead tired after the second show. I kid you not, "I Got Rhythm" is physically demanding. You get a very short break at the beginning of the second part (32 measures or so of tap routine). But when you come back in it's non-stop to the finish. There are also some very abrupt meter and key changes that will trip you up if you're not careful. As I recall the piano-conductor score is well marked and the parts are pretty clean. Alas, as with most Broadway releases, the score you see is the score you get! Guy Hayden, Minister of Music St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 372 Hiden Boulevard Newport News, Virginia 23606 _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
