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<blockquote data-quote="Tim McCulloch" data-source="post: 131053" data-attributes="member: 67">Re: What&#039;s common practice for theatre foldback?They won&#039;t believe you, but then ask why the orchestra watches the conductor&#039;s baton for timing cues.&nbsp; It&#039;s because if the players in the 60 ft wide pit have to *listen* for their cues, the players on the ends will be late.&nbsp; No matter what.&nbsp; So players and singers train themselves to follow the baton (and woe be unto those that do not).&nbsp; This is why I consider it a fallacy when the actors ask for vox foldback; it&#039;s recognized on Broadway and West End, where analog video monitors provide the &quot;conductor shot&quot; because digital processing makes the image late... and that the designers are providing a conductor shot, rather than foldback, for the speed-of-sound-in-air issue.Your cast doesn&#039;t need foldback, they need a music director with a whip and chair, or at least a monocle, riding crop, and beret. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tim McCulloch, post: 131053, member: 67"] Re: What's common practice for theatre foldback? They won't believe you, but then ask why the orchestra watches the conductor's baton for timing cues. It's because if the players in the 60 ft wide pit have to *listen* for their cues, the players on the ends will be late. No matter what. So players and singers train themselves to follow the baton (and woe be unto those that do not). This is why I consider it a fallacy when the actors ask for vox foldback; it's recognized on Broadway and West End, where analog video monitors provide the "conductor shot" because digital processing makes the image late... and that the designers are providing a conductor shot, rather than foldback, for the speed-of-sound-in-air issue. Your cast doesn't need foldback, they need a music director with a whip and chair, or at least a monocle, riding crop, and beret. ;) [/QUOTE]

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