I'm playing "Cats" in July
- heldenbone
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I'm playing "Cats" in July
...for a 1-week run. The set the troupe has rented (I haven't seen the part yet) I'm told has one trombone part. Can anyone tell me what to expect? Listening to the soundtrack on Youtube reveals a lot of electronics and percussion.
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Richard
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Re: I'm playing "Cats" in July
I played it for a couple months about 35 years ago. All I really remember was that the single trombone part was pretty boring. Nothing particularly difficult. The hardest parts were keeping track of rests and getting thoroughly bored with what I thought was a very pedestrian book.
Sorry, not the detail you're looking for. But maybe it gives you a small sense of it, or at least how I felt about it.
Sorry, not the detail you're looking for. But maybe it gives you a small sense of it, or at least how I felt about it.

- heldenbone
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Re: I'm playing "Cats" in July
Thanks. That is the impression I got from my cursory listen of the soundtrack. Maybe a week will be enough to learn the meaning of "jellicle." 

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Re: I'm playing "Cats" in July
I'm so sorry.
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Re: I'm playing "Cats" in July
There are over 20 different orchestrations of CATS, 6 of which don't use tromnbone, so it's anyones guess as to which one your production will be using. Here's a webpage that lists the different versions and where they were used.
https://catsmusical.fandom.com/wiki/Orc ... ur_Version
Possibly yours is the 2016 Licensed version?
https://catsmusical.fandom.com/wiki/Orc ... ur_Version
Possibly yours is the 2016 Licensed version?