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Originally Posted by soundlight
You only push go when the SM says go. When we're talking on com, we even spell out G O when we're not actually talking about go for a cue, purely out of convention.
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I have worked some places where they say fish instead of go if you are just talking about it. I have taken a cue without it being called twice, one for a show that had a light switch on the wall, the actor who as supposed to "turn on the lights" forgot to, and the SM was busy calling sound cues for a phone call and another actor ran over to turn the lights on and I took the cue, the other time was a button that was not called.
With an equity SM you do not take the cue unless it is called, period. When I am running
LX for a show, I don't even watch the show (usually I try to distract myself playing a game on my laptop or something, I am a bit ADD when it comes to running show). When you are running a board, you are that console, that is all there is to it. You have no call in when anything happens, if they say something should go, you go. I have gotten yelled at before because the SM called the wrong cue number, jumping a cue, and I took the cue number that he called which blacked out the stage. When we were on the dock he asked why I did that and my only response was "I take what youc call and don't question it". You do what the SM says, no matter what.