Kristy Norter: In essence, setting up the show, finding out what management wants, talking about anything from backline equipment–you know, do we need amps? If they’re onstage– like in SIX they’re onstage– do they need costumes? So I, you know, do they need fittings? Do we need to organize it? Setting up rehearsals, renting rehearsal space, making sure you have the equipment for all of that, and countless emails to everyone to make sure everything is on par and that everyone understands what the expectations are.
JM: So you hire the musicians and then you make sure that they get paid, and you make sure that they’re fulfilling their duties. It is the go-between between the producers, stage management, Local 802 and the musicians, in a way that you advocate for musicians but also hold them accountable to the rules in the contract, make sure that everyone is paid fairly. I advise the producers on Union rules, help them apply the Broadway CBA to their show, hire the right group of musicians for the production, and supervise the business side of the orchestra. I work for the producers, first and foremost. Kristy Norter: The technical term that most people prefer is music coordinator, but the slang, if you will, is contractor. Jamie Maletz: I want to start off by talking about the exciting thing that’s happening soon, which is that you are doing the music contracting for SIX. Her Music Coordinator credits include Cyrano, For Colored Girls, Kristin Chenoweth’s For the Girls Concert Series, and SIX. Kristy has subbed on dozens of Broadway musicals and performed with many talented musicians including Idina Menzel, Chita Rivera, Nancy Wilson, Bernadette Peters, Kristin Chenoweth, Michael Feinstein, Bootsy Collins, the Four Tops, the Temptations, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, Broadway Backwards Orchestra, Broadway on Broadway Orchestra, Diane Schuur, and Alan Cumming. Some of her past credits include A Bronx Tale, In the Heights, Newsies, Radio City Christmas Spectacular, the Big Apple Circus, Radio City Spring Spectacular, Himself and Nora, and multiple shows at the Paper Mill Playhouse including originating the Reed 1 books for Ever After, Bandstand, Bronx Tale, The Sting, The Honeymooners, Halftime, and Benny and Joon. Kristy also currently plays saxophone on Broadway in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. She is the music coordinator for SIX, making her the only female music coordinator on Broadway. Kristy Norter is a freelance musician specializing in woodwind instruments.
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