Computers replacing instrumentalists in musical productions.

Hopefully you will be as intrigued as I was to read about how laptops are replacing traditional orchestra's at musicals. You can read about this at:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/theater/25green.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin.

This was a very interesting article. I didn't know that this sort of downsizing was going on in the stage music world, so I was really intrested in reading the article. The whole article talked about the different programs that are being used, and how technology over the years has made them sound almost like the real thing. Cool! But, this is limited due to player unions that require so many people to play at each musical, also another interesting fact.

What caught me off guard, is when at the very end of the article, it tells me that these programs have never been used on Broadway. I thought that is what we were talking about. They were, Broadway productions outside the U.S.

Very sneaky, but it kind of threw me off. I got through the whole article thinking about the Broadway musicals in New York, and then it wasn't about them at all.

Not sure how I feel about this "withholding of information".