Fun_People Archive
27 Oct
A music business mini-drama in one act


Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 23:29:28 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: A music business mini-drama in one act

Forwarded-by: Ninafel@aol.com
Forwarded-by:	MARTYCUTLER@PAN.COM
From: Bret Zvacek <zvacekbr@potsdam.edu>
Responding to: <DG0A1G.Lq1@logic.uc.wlu.edu>

A MUSIC BUSINESS RELATED MINI DRAMA in ONE ACT

THE CAST:
    A Trombonist
    A Contractor    [not construction ... music, gigs, y'know?  -psl]

THE LOCATION:
    New York City, probably near the music store strip on 48th

THE SCENARIO:
    Trombonist and Contractor meet on the street after not seeing each other
    for a number of years

TROMBONIST:  Bob, is that you?  Good to see you, I haven't seen you in 20
    years.
CONTRACTOR:  My goodness Joe, it has been a long time.  As a matter of fact,
    the last time I spoke to you was when I called you for a club date
    20 years ago, and you stood me up!  You didn't show up for the gig!
    What happened?
T:  Well, the afternoon of the gig, I got called by Basie's road manager to
    join the band, and I had to leave right away.  Didn't you hear about
    that?
C:  No, I didn't hear about that.
T:  And then, after I was on the band for awhile, I started writing for the
    band, and Basie did a whole album of my charts.  Didn't you hear about
    that?
C:  No, I didn't hear about that.
T:  Then Frank Sinatra heard the album, liked my tunes and hired me as his
    musical director.  One of our records won a Grammy.  Didn't you hear
    about that?
C:  No, I didn't hear about that.
T:  Then I moved to Hollywood and got into writing for TV and movies, and
    won an Oscar for one of my soundtracks.  Didn't you hear about that?
C:  No, I didn't hear about that.  By the way, what are you doing back in
    New York?
T:  Well, I'm here for my daughter's wedding.  As a matter of fact, I took
    my trombone and sat in with the wedding band.  Man, my chops are kind
    of down.  I didn't play very well.  I sounded pretty bad, actually.
C:  Yeah, I heard about that.


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