ChiKat, tons of work~ma your way. As well as a gentle, supportive hand on your shoulder.

50 mics?!?! Just the RF setup alone is a nightmare! Is this a tour?

I'm serious. I just counted in the program. There's a 30-person choir and 20 or so singing characters (Jesus, 12 Apostles, Mary Magdalene, Herod (dressed as a pimp with a dazzling purple and gold cape), Pilate, and a couple of Romans. Only the bad guys got color. The good guys and the choir wore white, although sometimes the choir had colored scarves, apparently to show when they were EVIL. They had red scarves when they were chanting "Crucify him."

It's premiering at the Alliance. I'd think they'd have to do some trimming for touring.

Also, the band was on the stage in back, on a platform that would split apart for some scenes while the band played on.

I'm now earwormed with the Jonas Brothers. "I never thought that I'd catch this love bug again." I blame omnis.

The show I'm working on has the band onstage on a moving platform. I now hate moving onstage band platforms.

Also, was the choir in one place for the whole show? If they were, they might have been miked as a group, with wired mics. That would make the show marginally les complicated from a sound perspective.

Also, was the choir in one place for the whole show?

No. They danced and came in and out.

Ya. Our sound Dept this season could not handle that. Moving orch pit = hell. Dancing choir most likely means all in wireless. Ya. Maybe I should send them a bottle of scotch or something. Sounds like they need it.

Andi, I read it that the Christian pastor said something about the stories being literally true and the Jewish woman was pointing out that the Jews wrote the stories originally and didn't take them literally. Am I misreading? I'm confused.

No, the reading comprehension fail was totally mine. Dunno how I managed to skip over the important words that would indicate that the woman was not the one making the way too fundy Christian statements and then also claiming Genesis was written by Christians. Sorry about that.

Work~ma for ChiKat.

Yuk. It's a choir. Mic every third one and call it done, I say.

This is possibly one of many reasons I am not in charge of a whole sound departmen for a touring show.

I had a similiar thought. But that gets into ego/confidence problems with the actors. It could end up you only mix every third mic. But you still have to battery, condom, check, distribute all those mics. Geez the initial mic check day must have taken forever! And I really hope they have more than one a2. With a band of 10, hopefully a separate monitor mix with a body keeping eye on the band. Ye gads that's a big show.

So I have spent the day Rickrolling my class with the random bursts of me singing, and then the afternoon Barackrolling them. (The rest of the day having been largely involved with rehearsing our Chinese New Year Assembly, writing our own myths and gluing Roman-inspired mosaics together. Fun fun fun!)

God, my poor kids. Heaven knows what they make of school, really. But at least it's not dull, and I'm very rarely shouty. (Note how I managed to lose the Maths lesson in favour of the much-needed Drama. Ahem. Those arent' the droids you're looking for. Nothing to see here. Move along.)