[TPIN] Adults playing in student productions

[JFDonaldsn at aol.com]

I think that student productions should be done with all students. I think 
the drama department and music department should work together to find or modify 
the production so that it can be done by all students. This means that the 
school may not be able to put on West Side Story and/or the band director is 
going to have to re-write some parts to simplify or lower them so that the 
students can play them. There is nothing wrong with that and the only people who 
will notice will be anybody in the audience who has previously played the part 
and remembered it (that would be no one in most instances). The audience will 
notice a failed attempt at playing very difficult music.

There are exceptions to this where the school or program is very small and 
the choice is to augment the orchestra with adults (or students from other 
schools) or not have a production at all and deprive the students of the entire 
experience. 

When I was in high school, we had visitors from a small parochial school who 
was planning to put on the same production. They had number shortages and 
asked a few of us if we would augment their orchestra. Since it was an all girl 
school, they also had to fsome of the male dramatic parts with students from 
other schools. It did remain an all student production in spite of that.






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