Mamma Mia! From the Pit - Act 1

Montgomery High school’s 2019 production of the Musical Mamma Mia!

[@snitzelll3710]

THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL. AMAZING

[@dorkboi267]

I am not a musician by any means but what amazes me is how quickly y’all can transition from playing to chilling out and back. 😃

[@benloudermilk8525]

Broadway pit orchestra members have been known to read books and magazines when they're not playing during a show lol

[@guitarslim56]

We have these pages in front of us that show us when we can chill.

[@Jamie_kemp]

@@benloudermilk8525 Or make jokes to other band members while trying desperately not to laugh

[@Excalibur_LP]

@@benloudermilk8525 in London we also drink beer and do crosswords.

[@Keezo]

Theatre can be insanley monotonousin for everyone envolved with the show. People tend to adapt quickly and can go from nearly falling asleep super chilled to sprinting about tying to erect a building on stage in less than 30 seconds. Then they go right back to nearly falling asleep. Atleast thats my experience with theatre haha

[@santiforrester]

0:16 Overture/Prologue 5:40 Honey Honey 14:18 Money, money, money 22:17 Thank you for the music 28:31 Mamma Mia 36:32 Chiquitita 41:37 Dancing queen 46:08 Lay All Your Love On Me 51:11 Super Trouper 55:07 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! 59:40 The name of the game 1:02:27 Voulez- vous

[@julianrakowskijevdh4373]

You should be pinned for this

[@MichaelRasco]

This band is solid. 100%

[@esthershih5575]

1:01:15 the way the pianist on the front right plays color switch LMAO

[@lucyquinoa]

OMG LMAOAOAO

[@ashmurdica1382]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@cezzy_1496]

Damm I guess her whole song was resting there

[@shawnmou9600]

Wish we had a pit like this. I did percussion for this show a few months ago and uploaded my own footage, but we're completely below the stage and it was super dark

[@matthewhernandez5472]

Dark pit is my personal pit aesthetic tbh; feels like I'm in an ACTUAL Broadway show

[@shawnmou9600]

@@matthewhernandez5472 Yeah but not good for filming

[@benloudermilk8525]

Just consider yourself lucky you went to a high school that's able to do a full on show like this...Mine has never done a Broadway show like this..We have no pit,no orchestra class,(only band),and our stage is half in the gym/half in the cafeteria 😅

[@shawnmou9600]

@@benloudermilk8525 Ah yes, the classic cafegymetorium😂

[@benloudermilk8525]

@@shawnmou9600 You are sadly correct 😂

[@michaelfries1443]

bass playing was legit

[@phsycopiano]

These musicians are absolutely amazing

[@joelw4715]

Solid work from this band!

[@bruces819]

So nice to have a view from the pit ... thanx for sharing :)

[@RainbowDemon]

Percussion has literally the craziest job! Its insane people can do that.

[@guitarslim56]

What? You mean "hit stuff"? Anyone can do that.

[@RainbowDemon]

@@guitarslim56 ... -_-

[@willjay6943]

this show is all about the drummer crashes

[@hawkgaming8077]

@@guitarslim56 mean

[@josephst.george7841]

I was looking for Pink Floyd’s comfortably numb and this came up and I honestly wasn’t disappointed 10/10

[@nicolasrodriguez5358]

I'd love to see a video of the full show to see also the actors. You should be really proud of all this work. Congratulations!

[@OjibwaProductions]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnPSf2eaa9R_gNk

[@russell1882]

what a great job by everyone. I love the texting too by the two keyboard players upfront LOL!

[@ryanwall6149]

if my pit director at my school saw us texting during the show, he'd murder us lol

[@JoshyFre2003]

Went to see the west end production in London last week, from where I was sat I had a great view down into the pit - and could clearly see one of the keyboard players watching the news on his phone the whole way through the show!

[@Yusuf14-09]

Hello 👋 I’m a young drummer who has been asked by my school is drum in their musical production this year. I’m a bit nervous performing in front of loads of people. I have done it before. But never a musical. Only concerts.

[@paz7858]

me encanta

[@timdavis8143]

Are the synth parts all being played in "Piano"? I know MTI offers that Keyboard Patch Solutions for the effects but I didn't hear them in this. You guys sound great!

[@diannelovesyou]

You can definitely hear the harpsichord, string synth and some sort of rhodes type patch, you might have to up your volume

[@sgcim956]

You guys get into a nice groove on this gonky show. The bands I've played it with try to sound just like the record which is corny as hell. Keep groovin'!

[@starerik]

Mr. gum chewing piano man is ahead like all the time.

[@isabellaburgoss]

you guys are such PROFESSIONALS WOWWWWWW CONGRATULATIONS YOU ROCK!

[@HDChubbydude]

How did you guys manage to amplify everything? I don’t see any mics anywhere so I’m assuming whatever leaks out to the audience is what they hear

[@Jamie_kemp]

Yeah, I assume they were using DIs or maybe amps elsewhere for the guitars and DIs into the desk for the 4 pianos and then percussion and drums were loud enough on their own. You would think some of the percussion instruments wouldn't be loud enough though

[@evaa-w5399]

Awesome

[@peterculjak]

I'm jealous of how big the pit is!

[@OmegaLesPaul]

12:45 double dab

[@spyromatt]

Drummer's having it spot on.

[@niklaspilot]

This is insanely good! I legitimately thought it was a proper “Broadway” production of the musical until I saw how young y’all are 😅 I wish my school did productions like this when I was in high school

[@matiabba]

41:38 ❤️

[@elibongotm]

4 keyboard books on 4 pianos is an interesting choice 😂

[@BrandonRideout]

The show is written for 4 keyboards.

[@elibongotm]

Brandon Rideout exactly, the point is they’re playing it all on a piano sound

[@diannelovesyou]

They aren't the different sounds are pretty distinct

[@OperaGhost97]

@@diannelovesyou The keyboards are supposed to cover synth, lead pads, tuned percussion, guitars, etc. This is literally just four pianos.

[@diannelovesyou]

@@OperaGhost97 yeah but they're electric pianos. Put this on some decent quality speakers or headphones and you'll be able to hear the different "patches" they're using

[@sammygonzalezdrumsttb]

Do you by any chance have the drum scores for this?

[@NickJay]

Seems like it's pretty cold down there looking at the 2 front pianists. Haven't they heard of fan heaters? :)

[@guitarslim56]

Heat not good for the computers, or the instruments. Heat can mess with the tuning of the instruments.

[@NickJay]

@@guitarslim56 I wasn't suggesting a greenhouse or sauna. lol

[@disneydanny2]

so weoird seeing a music director just conducting and not having a second dcut of playiing keyboard 1

[@unarmedhihat4077]

Danny Eyheralde he actually plays the guitar part in thank you for the music in act 2, but for the rest of the show we have a separate teacher on keys.

[@disneydanny2]

@@unarmedhihat4077 AH NEAT.

[@35Low]

Why is that one pianist playing rehearsal charts

[@benloudermilk8525]

So on "Thank you for the music" why is the acoustic guitar part being played on keyboards when there is a gituar player with an acoustic gituar in the back??. 🤔

[@unarmedhihat4077]

Because the way this show is written, the first piano part is supposed to be played by the pit director, so the part is written such that the on stage performer and the first piano can see each other and follow each other, then being the only two people making sound. UNFORTUNATELY, this is a high school, and our director doesn’t play piano, but he is playing guitar if you see the top right corner. We figured that would be easier than having to copy several pages of sheet music, or shuffling books mid performance.

[@benloudermilk8525]

@@unarmedhihat4077 Gotcha!!..It's just that this is the first production I've seen where the synth is used for a guitar lol..Also how can you stand being that high on the throne behind the kit??..I like my toms to be about chest level,and my crash being about eye level 😅

[@unarmedhihat4077]

@@benloudermilk8525 yeah that was a while ago, and I used to really like having my drums low, with the snare and toms almost at the same height. I have since lowered myself down and raised my cymbals up as I realized the importance of showmanship.

[@rayplaysen9936]

0.26

[@scoutthompson3137]

Are you all running in ears?

[@unarmedhihat4077]

Scout Thompson nope. There are two monitors behind drums/bass and behind percussion. I have earplugs, which you might see me put in/take out every once in a while.

[@TrainerMysticNC]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnPSf2eaa9R_gNk is this the same thing

[@PeterBuvik]

I think there is too many pianos here.

[@dennistedder3384]

Quite a few missing instruments. Dead.

[@cezzy_1496]

Wrong shut up

[@mrmakaitv]

They have the full band. They probably just weren’t able to get the keyboard patches, but everything is there.

[@marcuspd7502]

Terrible. No one bothered to program the keyboards with the correct instrument sounds. That’s why it doesn’t sound as full as other overtures. The sad thing is that all the proper instruments are there. Someone just didn’t do their job.

[@CH-nb9yy]

That "someone" probably doesn't exist, as this is a high school production. I actually have the same Yamaha keyboard as they are using in this particular show, and the patch options on this particular model aren't really expansive enough to cover all the sounds for "Mamma Mia". It would require some technical knowledge to hook this type of keyboard up to a computer running Mainstage or something like that. It looks like the young musicians did their best, seeing how they were selecting some of the patches already on the keyboard.

[@matthewfletcher4265]

@@CH-nb9yy True. RMS keyboards offers this musical with all the patches programmed, but it's $435. They could have ran all the keyboards through one macbook and not changed their setup at all. It definitely would have made the keyboard parts sound way cooler (they're playing great) but it's not always in the budget.

[@matthewfletcher4265]

Programming all the patches by yourself would take so long, there's literally 117 patches for keyboard 3 by itself. These keyboards also don't have the capability to do all of them (they're changing to the onboard instruments that they have, but these kind of performance keyboards definitely don't have all the synth sounds the musical calls for). They could run it through mainstage but that would be pricey and still a pain to set up, or, RMS keyboards offers the patches for this musical preset for you. It's $435 but you can run all 4 keyboards through one macbook, and switch through the patches in order with the bottom two keys on each keyboard. I just got my director to agree to pay for that for our production and it's a huge relief, because trying to do it myself would have been a nightmare. I might still program a couple of the coolest lead parts for my axsynth keytar though, since he's putting us on stage (in the back, like we're the taverna live band) and I want to be a legend...

[@mrmakaitv]

@Les A single piano player would be better than tracks from the booth. Always avoid tracks at all costs, to whatever your ability is.