I'm preparing a production of "Crazy For You" for the theater in Mannheim. The orchestral parts, published by Tams-Witmark in 1993, must have been made with Finale: the Petrucci font is unmistakable. But the publishers do not have a full score, or if they have one, they're keeping very quiet about it.
Maybe somebody on the Finale list worked on this piece, or knows a person who did? I'd be most grateful for any information on the possible whereabouts of a full score.
Michael Cook
I'm puzzled that the orchestra parts are actually available for purchase. Normally any show that's still in copyright comes under Grand Rights and that material is ONLY available on rental when you contract to do the production. Hmmm. Just reread what you wrote, and that's probably exactly your situation.
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.
John
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