Musical director

Also called: MD · Music director

Leads the music: teaches the songs, rehearses singers and band, and usually conducts the performances.

DirectorsActors

SitzprobeThe first rehearsal where singers sit and sing through the score with the full orchestra, with no staging.
Vocal scoreThe music for a musical with every sung line and a piano version of the band parts. What the cast learns from.
Orchestra pitA sunken area in front of or under the stage where the band plays for a musical.

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