It was probably last year when they added a video monitor to the fly rail so the fly crew could see what was happening the stage. I've always doubted the practicality of such a device because normally, when you're pulling the ropes, you've got your eyes on the lookout for the spike marks. I'm not aware of any moves initiated by visual cues.
Let me also add at this point that there's not a whole lot of activity on the rail in Scrooge. A lot of time is just spent waiting. Back in the day we at least used to be able pass time time by chatting on headset. But now, instead of calling the cues over headset, we are told when to go with the turning on and off of colored rope lights. Because the rail is a good thirty-five or so feet in the air, we're really cut off from the rest of the cast and crew. It can get boring quickly.
With plenty of down time to think, a fellow crew member came up with the bright idea of hooking a video game system up to the otherwise useless video monitor in the rail. He brought in his X-Box and Halo seems to be the game of choice. The show seems to go by much more quickly now.
Posted by Matthew at November 28, 2004 10:30 PMWow.....that's genius.
Posted by: Kristi at November 29, 2004 03:10 PM