Guide
Calling a show with 200 cues
A practical walkthrough of how touring stage managers structure long cue lists so a substitute can pick the book up mid-run without a rehearsal.
From the blog
Field notes from the booth.
Release
Live cue sync 2.0
Sub-frame sync across departments, plus a rewritten conflict resolver for when two operators edit the same cue at once.
Case study
Ten venues in ten days
How one touring company loaded in, tech'd and opened a new venue every day without touching a spreadsheet.
Why every department needs the same GO
From the Cue Lab blog · 6 minute read
A show is a promise kept a thousand times a night. When sound, lights and video each keep their own list, the promise turns into three — and a DSM spends act one reconciling them.
“Standby and GO finally mean the same thing to sound, lights and video.”
What changes on the night
- One cue number, shared by every department:
Q12isQ12everywhere. - Standbys go out together; a missing Space on one desk shows up as a red lamp on yours.
- Late changes are marked in the book and pushed before the half.
Touring season: 20% off
Annual Company plans, through October.