You know what's sad? When a couple of the reed and brass players do a very decent job of reading and playing their books, but you can just tell that - even though they're very nearly in most of our own age brackets - they apparently did NOT grow up listening to, say, the Merman original cast recording. Or they'd KNOW, without having it drilled into them, which bars their various licks in the Overture and all go, and how they should sound.
