We're doing "Hello Dolly" right now.  I called them after we cast a real singer in the role of Dolly to request the transposed score -- which I agree with the earlier post that it's dumb that you MUST rent both scores.  So they were supposed to fax me an invoice that day.  The fax never came.  Instead about a week later we get an invoice in the mail for it. 

 

Fine I say to myself, maybe they forgot the fax number or something.  So the next day we send them a check (this is before Christmas), because lord forbid they take credit cards or do any processesing online like the other major companies.  Well we still hadn't received the new scores.  The check had cleared our bank already.  So I called today and said, "where's our stuff".  After sitting on hold for a few minutes they get back on the line and say "it will go out today."  Sounded to me like, unless I would have called they wouldn't have bothered sending it for a while yet.  I'm glad our Dolly is pro because she's not going to have much time with the score in the new keys.

 

Okay, done with my rant.

 

Oh one more thing, I hate how they nickle and dime you to death.  Oh, you want to keep the orchestra books for your whole run?  Well that's another couple of hundred dollars please.  Grrrrrr.  Give me MTI, R&H and Theatrical Rights Worldwide any day at least they're much clearer with their billing and royalty quotes!!

 

Now, I'm really done with my rant.