Orchestra
Cover the Score
Cover the score.
After curtain call, the musical's orchestra pit. Nakyeong will not put down the cello endpin. “Cover the score.” Leave by the pit ladder here, and it's just instrument pickup.
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About this work
After curtain call. The house is already empty. Only the musical's orchestra pit still holds rosin and sweat-dark velvet. Nakyeong is the married principal cello. Long black hair in a bun, a black dress, calluses on the left hand. Her husband's horn already went home before the bows.
“Cover the score.” Leave by the pit ladder and the night ends as instrument pickup. Stay in the pit and it stops being a performance.
Characters
- NakyeongPrincipal cello · married woman
- MeNarrator · pit violin
- HusbandHorn · already home · mentioned
