Sometimes, after extended periods of rest or an open vamp, publishers will be nice enough to put a vocal cue in the music so we don’t have to count and can focus on checking our Facebook and texting instead. In the case of Avenue Q, where much of the material is a little blue, this can lead to some interesting markings on your score.
I can say with 100% certainty that nowhere in the guitar book for Showboat does it say “If you were queer…” The funny thing is that all the songs that involve Rod (the gay puppet in the show) feature banjo so a lot of my banjo cues have strange phrases. It also begs the question, when did the banjo become an audio cue for gayness?
