Pippin pit band shenanigans from my school:
-The other trombonist always has Moutain Dew which he produces cans of, if not the big liter bottles, seemingly out of thin air.
-In one of the songs where Pippin and Catherine are uh doing the do, some of the dialogue breaks include lines like "Sorry haven't done this in a while" "No that's my fault I'll be better" "Lets try this again" which our band director attempted to convince us was a conversation about trying to order food from our local gas station restaurant place.
-The players came in to sing the Finale the day after we learned it (we are not good at it like a good chunk of the rest of the music) and for context, they players are trying to convince Pippin to jump into a pit of fire and burn alive to fulfill himself to the greatest but we didn't know this so the pit kept going "WHAT???" The entire song
-Following that we asked our band director what the plot of this was. He shrugged and said he probably knows less than we do.
-Sax player talked in an Australian accent for a 2 hour rehearsal.
-Bass guitar has a 50 ft cable which pick up radio signals and plays music in the background. The highlights have been some reggae station and Africa by Toto which kept getting progressively louder while the drama teacher was trying to give us a meaningful pep talk.
-The most annoying trumpet player brings in a bag of mixed nuts everyday and always enthusiastically states "I sure do love nuts! Every single kind!" (No joke exactly those words). The entire school has been convinced that he's fruity for years (my mom's gaydar even went off which she told me) and if he keeps saying things like this, I-
-The entire brass section was watching ATLA on one of the trumpets phones while the cast was here trying to rehearse with us and they were confused.
okay that's all for now
band kids are terrifying