And, best of all the trip was a great success. I may incur the wrath of Samuel French employees, but for years they've let their musical theatre materials be handled by incompetent supervisors, and the Al Carmines show Promenade, which Summer Encores is doing this summer, is a case in point. The orchestra parts are often in different keys from the vocal score, and the libretto they're sending out is the playwright's revised script which cuts three songs in the score. Our trip to New Paltz was to look at the collection of Susan Romann, conductor of the 1969 off-Broadway production that opened the Promenade Theatre. All of her rehearsal and performance materials were there - conductor's score, a lot of the original orchestra parts, rehearsal and vocal scores, and the original script with pages of revisions.
