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« on: Feb 08, 2009, 07:18 pm »
I stage manage musicals for high level community theater. I provide the sound engineer with a script and a mic plot. The mic plot shows which actor is wearing which mic during which scenes. We don't have enough mics for everybody, but anybody with a solo line or song pretty much has to be mic'd, due to the size of our house. I usually figure out how to accomplish this (mic exchanges) and the mic plot reflects that information. After that, it is up to the sound engineer to take his own mic cues. Our sound engineer only attends one rehearsal prior to tech, so he relies heavily on the script, and visual cues (ie. seeing the actor on stage), so I try to make time to review special issues with him, such as lines that are spoken on a lav from off-stage, or circumstances where he might want to kill a mic before the actor has left the stage (fight scenes, where the mic is at risk of being brushed, etc.).
Cueing of onstage/offstage mics is also done by the sound engineer independently.