Merrily We Roll Along 2022

Merrily We Roll Along 2022
Summary
Dates 6th Dec 2022 - 9th Dec 2022
Performance Course Third Year MT
Location New Athenaeum Theatre
Creative Team
Director Lou Sheppard
Designer Ken Harrison
Sound Designer Allan Hamilton
Lighting Designer Anna Athanasiadi
Video Designer Rhia Mitsuhashi		Production Team
Stage Manager Reegan Graham
Deputy Stage Manager Caitlin Riddell
Assistant Stage Manager Iz Brett
Assistant Stage Manager Robyn Johnstone
Head of Stage/Automation Scotty
Flys Toby Cass
TSD1 Rory Campbell
Stage Technician Jamie Burke
LX Programmer Pippa Reilly
PLX Jamie Murray
Production Sound Engineer Lewis Brown
Sound No. 2 Nathan Farndale
Sound No. 3/Deputy PSE Lana Kirk

Sound

One of the main challenges of this show was the pit being at half-height. This of course meant less control in the front of house mix, and an overall louder sound in the auditorium before amplification. This also meant carefully runnning our cables up onto the pit lift, including cue and comms cables as well as cat5 for personal monitoring. It was important that this was made safe for the muscicians by making cable runs as clean as possible.

This also meant rigging the MD Camera with a hex-clamp and camera rigging to the underside of the stage to ensure a good view of the MD.

Video

This show used two projectors, one in the FOH truss position and the other on stage on LX 1. This was due to the two different projection surfaces, one being the gauze and the other a flown balcony piece. Two projectors were used to adhere to the focal lengths.

Notes: Kramer HDMI to CAT5 extenders won't draw enough power when an optical HDMI is used on the other end of it.

Additionally, an old CRT monitor was to be used on stage, with a live camera feed going to it through the disguise server. However, due to the digital-to-analogue converter breaking, the monitor was sadly cut.

Below you can see the system diagram of the set up. File:MWRA - Systems Diagram V002.pdf