[Dustincoc]

Originally Posted by Serendipity

So she was spot-on with her cues?
Sorry, I really am... I couldn't resist!

As what everyone has said, the audio engineer should be on com. If you have the ability, a telephone-style com system would be better. (When I was A1 on a dance concert last year, I rigged up my own cue light system, which instead of signaling when I should execute a cue, was a signal for me to pick up the cans, so I could focus on listening to the show, as opposed to the lighting cues (of which there were at least 20x the amount of audio cues. I stole the idea from a local road house who I saw doing this years ago, except with a traditional com telephone and attached LED that showed when he was being "rung". I think it's a fairly common practice.)

As for your lack of cue light system, it does not have to be difficult. I found an extension cable with a switch, and left the switch with the SM. I ran the cable down from the balcony (where the SM was; there was a convenient curtain from the balcony to the ground, so by running the cable behind the curtain it was invisible), across the aisle (properly taped down) to the FOH position where some blue rope light that had already been underneath the raised console became my cue light.

This may have worked also in that situation although anyone on cans could trigger it. The call lamps on the Beltpacks in my experience are just used to annoy everybody and for one person to make sure all the cans can talk to each other(just set them all in locations where the lights can be seen from one of the packs and then go to that pack, press the button and make sure all the lights flash).