Pit orchestra is so much fun! I may sit down the whole time but I still feel like I get a really good workout, especially for my arms and hands. I'm fresh out of a show and the left hand fingertips are a bit sore as I type this; they're sore and a bit harder and calloused from lots of action on the violin.
The music is fun to play and all the other musicians are good-natured and working hard to get the right performance out of their instrument, and in the process work up quite a sweat. Tonight this fact was particularly obvious. The pit in which I played tonight is rather cavern-like, so it's not ventilated well and traps heat easily. By the end of Act I there were some pretty funky smells wafting about the place and we unanimously decided not to linger there during intermission but to leave the pit and air our bodies out a little. In Act II some of the musicians in front of me checked their armpits after a show-stopping, high energy number; it was played to comic effect but they were serious about making sure that they weren't rank, that they weren't the ones responsible for making the pit odorific.
I have to do a good job apply deodorant for the next show.
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