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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / CALLING: Musical number where I can't hear....countdown software?

« on: Nov 30, 2009, 02:36 pm »

You guys were an enormous help in the past....so a new question.  I'm calling a combined musical/drama Christmas festival near Atlanta.  Let's just say we have an "untraditional" Little Drummer Boy number where the cast/orchestra is suddenly supplemented by a local university drum line.  You've never had fun until you suddenly have a full drum line in the room....including multiple huge bass drums within about 10 feet of me.  I'm usually calling from a marked up score....but in this number due to the proximity of the bass drums my hearing is reduced to BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and it can be impossible to follow.

Is anyone using any software for situations like this that could give me countdowns based on rehearsal cue timing?  I guess I can always call from a stopwatch program if I can't find anything better.

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SMNetwork Archives / Anyone working in Atlanta first few weeks of December?

« on: Nov 27, 2007, 01:58 pm »

OK....strange request but I need your help....I've been "volunteered" to direct a fairly large Christmas production and I'd appreciate an opportunity to watch a pro in action (primarily in calling).  I've been directing video/cameras but this is a mixed musical and stage event and that is an entirely different ball game.  Is there anyone currently working in the Atlanta area who wouldn't mind an "observer"?