They are implicitly demanding, even selfish, and ever alert to everything from historical validation and inspiration to technical cues and simple companionship -- and it shows.
Although Ms. N 'doye 31, an owner of the cafe, also wore a crisp chef's coat, her every move sprung from sensual, rather than technical, cues.
But the abundant technical cues clash with Mr. Watts's freewheeling style, and despite the undoubtedly considerable logistical efforts on the part of the director, Kip Fagan, much of the vignette-heavy material feels like stoner chitchat that made its way unfiltered to a paying audience.
Tying all of this together is stage manager Dale Alan Cooke, who certainly has his hands full calling literally hundreds of technical cues without so much as a single noticeable mistake.
Each performance is written up in a show report by the stage manager, detailing any unusual events – missed cues, technical hitches, audience interruptions.
Indeed, part of the reason their shows are so gripping is the constant threat of disaster: flubbed lines, missed cues, technical difficulties.
This was an artistic choice, not a technical one; audio cues are typically run from the sound booth, well out of the audience's line of vision.
You can use slides for a visual cue of technical data or a moderated fireside chat to spark personal connection.
Murphy was then caught off-guard by some sort of technical glitch from the cue cards that, during the live airing, prompted him to say, "I thought that right there you guys were gonna do the...," make a strange signal with his hands and then give his best improv attempt with three more sentences about what a "helluva night" it was.
Throughout the performance, Eto Oro, credited with visual design and technical direction, controls the cues.
