My wife and I saw Caberet last night (Studio 54 theater, revival by the Roundabout Theater Company). The show's band appears on-stage, in costume. Just before the start of the second act, I saw one of the trumpet players pick up what appeared to be a euphonium. Knowing that I have euphoniums on my mind lately (with an order pending from Mack Brass), I said to myself, it couldn't be a euphonium in a Broadway pit band--it must be an Eb compensating tuba, and I said to my wife "look at the tuba up there." Then she (yes, the pit band has a high proportion of women) started warming up, and it was no tuba. I checked the program, and one of the trumpet players was doubling euphonium.
This is the first time I have ever seen a euphonium in a Broadway production (and I've been seeing Broadway musicals for over 50 years). I'm curious if any one has ever seen another Broadway production calling for a euphonium in the pit band.
--Dean L. Surkin