Post the call.Cover the book.Sell the house.
Pit chairs, subs, local hire, doublers — your first call posts free, reaching the geo-tagged musicians who opted in to sub work in your market. Run the audition, keep the sub roster, and sell your shows on the same platform.
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This is the actual product
The pit and the box office, on one screen.
Every screenshot below is a real Cadenza theater workspace — the sub roster, the group-sales pipeline, reserved seating. Not a mockup.
Group sales
The school trip, tracked like revenue.
Every group inquiry lands in a pipeline — new, contacted, quoted, won — with party size, requested date, and the quote you gave, so the box office never loses a bus of forty.
- New / contacted / quoted / won stages
- Party size and requested dates on the card
- Recorded quotes your team can pick back up
Reserved seating
Sections, rows, and seats — priced by your tiers.
Define orchestra, mezzanine, and balcony against your ticket tiers, and watch sold and held counts move through opening week.
- Sections priced by your existing ticket tiers
- Sold and held counts per section
- Buyers pick specific seats at checkout
Pit auditions
Hear the book blind.
When a chair opens, run the audition with a blind panel: each juror scores by number against your criteria, and the result exports with its full trail.
- Blind by audition number, enforced at the API
- Your criteria, your weights
- Advancement and results with an audit trail
Run the season on this.
Post a pit call free today; the box-office rails are there when tickets go on sale.
Post the chair you’re actually filling.
Pick a role, write it in a minute (or let Cadenza draft it), and it’s live free.
Pit Musician
A specific chair for a production
Post this roleSubstitute / Local-hire
Per-market fill in any tour city
Post this roleMusic Director
The flagship pit hire
Post this roleConductor / Asst. Conductor
Lead or cover the pit
Post this roleRehearsal Pianist / Répétiteur
Music rehearsals & coachings
Post this rolePrincipal Chair (audition)
Concertmaster, principal reed/brass
Post this roleReed / Keyboard Doubler
Multi-instrument book covers
Post this roleContractor / Personnel
Run the pit for the whole run
Post this roleYou fill the pit — not just post the call.
The job boards stop at a listing. Cadenza reaches the opted-in sub pool and runs the pipeline to the offer.
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Post the chair or sub call
Instrumentation, dates, market, book — free. Or let Cadenza draft it.
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Reach the opted-in pool
Your opt-in sub / local-hire roster with doublings and availability, plus prescreen media and availability — no cold-calling a personal list.
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Audition or review responses, then decide
Score a panel pit audition, or review who responded on your subs board and contact them — all in one place.
“Playbill and the boards post a listing. Cadenza reaches the local pool and runs the audition.”
One season, one production: $299, good for 60 days — no $4,800/yr commitment.
See Audition OSThe players are already here — and free.
Cadenza is free for musicians, so pit players keep public profiles with their instrument doublings, location, and availability. Post a call and it surfaces to the doublers and freelancers who fit your book and your market.
Built for the way a pit actually hires.
Season announced → contract the pit
When the season drops, you need a full book of players locked. Post the chairs free and build the roster before tech.
Post a pit chair — freeTour routing → local-hire every city
Pamphlet B local-hire means a new pit in every market. Post a geo-tagged sub call and reach the musicians who opted in to sub work there.
Post a sub call — first post freeTech week → the 6 p.m. sub scramble
A player drops the night of. Post a fast sub call to the pool that already plays your book — not your text thread.
Fill a sub fastSell the season on the same platform.
Reserved seats and GA, season subscription packages, comps, refunds, and door check-in — plus a patron CRM with gift history and automatic donation acknowledgments. $0 to set up, just 7% + $0.99 per order, and you keep 100% of face value.
See ticketing & subscriptionsFor every kind of house — tuned to how you hire.
Broadway / Commercial
Strongest fitPrincipal chairs, full books, and the standing sub list for an open-ended run.
Touring (Pamphlet B)
Strongest fitLocal-hire orchestras city by city — the recurring per-market fill, in one place.
LORT & Regional
Seasonal pit hiring and music-director searches for resident theaters.
Opera & Ballet pit
Section and principal auditions plus extra/sub calls for the run.
The boards post. Cadenza posts and fills the pit.
Playbill, Backstage & the union referral stop at the posting. Cadenza adds the opted-in sub pool and the audition.
From sign-up to your first call, in minutes.
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Post your call — free
Pit chair, sub, local-hire, or MD search. Write it, or let Cadenza draft it.
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Reach & prescreen
Applications, doublings, availability, and audio/video prescreen in one place.
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Audition or review responses
Score a panel audition, or review who responded on your subs board and contact them.
Start free. Pay only when it pays off.
No setup fee, no contract, no auto-renewal — every plan is a fixed one-year term you actively choose to renew.
Free
$0 forever
Claimed profile plus your first posting free; additional postings use listing credits.
Post a pit call — freeAudition Pass
$299 / audition cycle
One season's blind audition — applications, prescreen, scoring, the recorded draw — no subscription. Valid for 60 days.
Run an auditionFounding
$990 / yr · locked for life
Unlimited postings, analytics, communications, profile tools, and the reduced ticketing rate.
See plansHiring OS Pro
$4,800 / yr
The full pipeline: searchable directory, roster, applications, committee tools, and analytics.
See plansRun one audition cycle for $299 · 60 days · one-time payment.
Also: self-serve job post $249 · contact us about other listing options · ticketing & donations $0 setup, tickets 7% + $0.99 per order, donations 5% of each gift · a bigger org or a multi-site group? Enterprise from $18,000.
Frequently asked questions
- Is it really free to post?
- Your first one is. A claimed theater profile and your first pit call or audition posting are free — no card required. Additional postings use listing credits, and paid plans add the full Hiring OS (sub-list, roster, availability, in-platform applications), the Audition OS, ticketing, season subscriptions, and the patron CRM.
- How is this different from Playbill, Backstage, or the union referral?
- Those post a listing and stop. Cadenza posts the call AND gives your hiring a system: an opt-in sub/local-hire roster with doublings, geo-tagged reach in the market you need, in-platform applications, prescreen media, and pit-audition tooling — without replacing your contractor’s relationships.
- We do touring local-hire in every city — does that work?
- Yes — it’s the strongest fit. Post a per-market local-hire call with the instrumentation and dates and reach the geo-tagged pool of musicians who opted in to sub work in that market, instead of cold-calling off a personal list. Built for the recurring, city-by-city fill.
- We hold real pit auditions — what’s the cheapest way?
- The Audition Day Pass runs one complete audition cycle for $299, good for 60 days — branded application, audio/video prescreen, panel scoring, candidate numbers, recorded draw, and check-in. No $4,800/yr commitment.
- Can we sell tickets to our shows too?
- Yes. Ticketing and season packages are $0 to set up — just 7% + $0.99 per order, and you keep 100% of face value. Reserved seats, comps, refunds, door check-in, and a patron CRM with gift history and automatic donation acknowledgments are all included. Official tax language is available only after Cadenza verifies complete jurisdiction-specific issuer evidence.
- Do we have to sign a contract?
- No. Every paid plan is a fixed one-year term billed once, with renewal reminders before it ends so you decide whether to continue. Nothing auto-renews — when the term is up you choose whether to buy another year, and access continues through the period you already paid for.
Post the chair today. Post it today.
List your pit chair, sub, or local-hire call free — then reach the opted-in sub pool and run the audition when you’re ready. No contract, no card to start.