Instrumentation
Seussical requires a large orchestration with the original Broadway production having seventeen musicians. The instrumentation calls for two keyboard, bass, two guitars, drums, percussion, three woodwind players, two trumpets, trombone, and strings. The first guitar part doubles on acoustic and electric guitar while the second guitar part doubles on acoustic and electric guitar as well as banjo. The first woodwind part doubles on piccolo, flute, clarinet, and soprano and alto sax; the second part doubles on oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, and tenor sax; the third part doubles on flute, clarinet, bassoon, and baritone sax.
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