I’m brushing up on my Latin rhythms for In The Heights with the Palo Alto Players. The show runs September 14 – 29 at the Lucie Stern Theatre.
In The Heights won a 2008 Tony Award for “Best Musical” and a 2009 Grammy for “Best Musical Album”. Check it out on iTunes.
It seems that my rig gets more complicated with each show and preparing for the PYT production of Legally Blonde was no exception. We did not have a percussionist for the show, so in addition to drums, I doubled the percussion part where possible. This involved adding parts for triangle, tambourine, crotale, mark tree (a.k.a. the “broken glass” patch), bodhran and timpani in various tunings throughout the show.
Covering the additional percussion parts resulted in 82 program changes throughout the show and over 50 custom kits that needed to be programmed.
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