February 22

This has been the longest day of the internship thus far, as cue-to-cue begins today and we’re scheduled to be at the theatre from 8 AM to 10 PM (with a two-hour dinner break from 3-5). This is when the show is stumbled through in order to gauge the placement of cues and see what needs to be fixed in terms of lighting and sound. Before then, we continued with getting things set up for the band, who would be coming in the next week. We decided to change around some of the positioning at the request of the keyboardist.

Two hours later, cue-to-cue officially began. There was a lot of stopping and starting in order for the lights to be adjusted in the scenes. For this run, we were positioned in the audience on the first floor and we used the table I helped build to station the console, with the setup as pictured (I did get Lamar’s permission to include him in the picture, so long as I captured his good side). At the beginning, I was told to run the mic packs from the tech bay to the actors, and at the end of the day I’d run the mics back up after removing the sweat protectors.

As long as the day was, at least we were fed during the day (donuts in the morning and Olive Garden catering for dinner) and I was able to get other things done while taking in what was going on.