Into The Woods 2023

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Into The Woods 2023
Summary
Dates 4th - 9th December 2023
Location New Athenaeum
Creative Team
Director Louise Shepherd
Designer Alex Green
Lighting Designer Dylan McLean
Sound Designer Nathan Farndale
Video Designer Rhia Mitsuhashi
Production Team
Stage Supervisor Toby Cass
Deputy Stage Supervisor Nathan George
Stage Manager Robyn Johnstone
Deputy Stage Manager Iz Brett
Assistant Stage Manager Paola Soliz, Pim Unhasuta
LX Programmer Jamie Burke
PLX Dave Evans
Technical Stage Technicians Jacob Martin
Sound 2 Cara Slaughter
PSE Daniel Barclay

Sound

Comms

To connect our wired and wireless comms

- 3 Pin XLR out of wired comms basestation to in house patch

- From in house patch, XLR to 4-wire, into wireless comms basestation

To get wireless control pad

- Wireless basestation network settings

- Connect to basestations wifi

- Enter IP address in browser

Our settings

Meant that all wireless comms were constantly on B ring for our 'stage ring', but are still able to hear the DSM's show call.

Everyone on wired comms on A ring and are unable to hear wireless B ring.

B ring on wired comms was available too, separate wireless B ring, but are unable to hear the DSM.

Hollyland Solidcom C1 HUB8S Control Pad

A Group - Default B Group - Default

A Group - Changed B Group - Changed

Equipment and Power

Pit: Uses of power = 13amp and 16amp. Our DQ rack which distrobutes signal to the digico desk is powered by 16amp found in the upsatge left corner of the pit. we postioned our DQ rack at the front of the pit, DSL. This was because we had four subs on this show, two B1 - L + R and two C7 Subs - L + R. these were powered by amplifiers inserted in our DQ rack in the pit. We avoided long unwated runs of NL4(speaker cable) and were able to concentrate all of our cable runs at the front of the pit where easily accesible and out of the way of band memebers.

Nineteen microphones were used in our pit band. Microphone types included: DPA 4099 - Violins, Violas, Bass, Cello which were all attached using specific clips designed for each instruments. For example a violin clip:

Piccolo Snare Drum - AT2020 Snare Drum - AT2020 Bass Drum - SM89 Tom-toms - SE300 Cymbal (Suspended) - SE300 Small Choke Cymbal- SE300 Horn I - beta 57 Horn II - beta 57 Trumpet - MD441

Each instruments microphone is connected to the DQ rack in the inputs section via XLR cable. Once connected the digico SD12 in use is able to pick up their signal via dnate network. We used three stage boxes around the pit in order to control the amount of cable needed. See Image below.

Our main cable run was along the front of the situated steel deck we used bungies to attach the cables to the steel rungs. This was because it is fast and easy to attach, adjust-access cable, strike and is much more environmentally friendly than tape. The cables consisted of XLR, Cat 5 ethernet and power for our stage boxes

Some instruments it made sense to hang mics,The infrastructure of the pit allowed us to easily hang mics. See image below:

Pit PLan:

We layed black painted steel deck, this blacked out the grey floor in the pit, allowed us to manage cable runs better and added a certain elegance to the pit. We also rigged a black drape around the back of the pit to cover any unwanted storage.

In order for each band member to essentially have their own foldback we used a behringer powerplay system, beheinger base station connected to two distrobuters which distrobuters to each musicians powerplay unit, this small P16-M mixer allowed the musicician to switch between different groups within the mix. for example, strings Vox etc. Adjust volumes, pan, add effects etc. Headphones were required.

Onstage:

Photos

Behind The Scenes