New Music Software Replaces Musicians in Musical Theatre Orchestras

Banned on Broadway, a new generation of music software is shrinking musical theatre orchestras

Musicians are losing jobs, or stretched further in the gigs they can get, as KeyComp and other technologies replace human players in the pit Few fans of Disney’s The Lion King would think to peer over the railing of Sydney’s Capitol Theatre orchestra pit. But if they did, they would find the musicians have plenty of elbow room. During The Lion King’s Australian debut season in 2003, there would have been 17 players. Now there are just 11. Continue reading...

By Elissa Blake