John Howell wrote:
However, I know of NO Broadway show that has a full score (Partiture to the librarians involved!) available, or even in existence. I suspect that there was one and only one, R.R.Bennett's original, probably in pencil, and only the various copyists have ever seen it. Certainly none of the shows we've done as our summer musicals (13th year this summer) has had a full score. Everything is Piano-Conductor, which is quite all right for conducting, but of no real help in rehearsals! The orchestral parts for "My Fair Lady" are--surpise!--actually typeset, but still have lots of errors and a great many notations that do NOT match the piano-conductor and do NOT match other books. The typesetting is great: more notes per page, easier to read, fewer page turns. The proofreading still leaves much to be desired, and of course NOBODY ever compiles and sends out lists of errata, so every production has to reinvent the wheel.
This thread has been great reading, though I've not worked on a musical in many many years. This last bit, thought, really got my attention. I played in pit bands for a number of years (sometimes miss it) strictly at the academic/amateur level, and we ALWAYS compiled a list of errata, which we sent to rental company when we returned the materials. I don't recall ever seeing one, which was probably why we created it! Odd that this information isn't shared!!!
Bill
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