Calling all reed players for advice (sax/clarinet/flute)

[Bicoastal]

I have an audition on Wednesday for Carnival cruises. So excited! I'm a grad student, so this gig would mean the difference between spending the summer on a boat in the carribean, making money, or loafing around doing nothing.

But here's the problem--I'm more comfortable on clarinet than I am on Alto sax. Always have been, probably always will be. Although I have plenty of experience playing sax in pit orchestras, I have no idea how difficult the charts they're going to send me are going to be (it's a phone audition). I sometimes have problems when playing at the very bottom of the instrument (low C or below), and I don't know know any notes above high F. Also, my tone sounds a little classical--a minimum of vibrato, in other words. And I know that Alto Sax is supposed to be the primary instrument.

My question is this: will playing all three instruments competently be enough for them, or will they expect me to be at an expert level on the alto? What are my chances of actually passing this thing? I can improvise, so that'll bolster my chances a little, but still...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. You're trying for this and calling a flute a reed instrument?

:P

Seriously, though, I too play clarinet primarily and double on sax, only the saxes I play are tenor and bari. :)

I'm not sure about the whole competency/expertise thing, since I'm not a professional, but I would think that perhaps they'd want a jack-of-all-trades, unless it is a highly specialized gig.

:shrug:

[Bicoastal]

2. Actually, since I posted this...

...I had the audition.

And yes, I GOT THE JOB!

Woohoo!!

[Greyskye]

3. Now that the summer is over...

...how did the gig go?