[SML] What is your favorite cue number method?

[Dan Sheehan]

Thanks Jim.
I immediately recognized that you were quoting FW.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 3:31 PM, Dougherty, Jim via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> What I don’t understand is why the operators are getting their cues from
> the Stage Manager in the first place.  The operators should have their own
> scripts, and know the show well enough to call their own cues, without the
> delay and possible communications error of getting their cues from the
> Stage Manager, who should not have their head in a book!
>
> This opinion, for those who don’t know, is not so much mine as a
> remembrance of past list member Frank Wood: a curmudgeon of the highest
> order and something of a troll if one agrees to use that word in the
> kindest way possible.  I am convinced that pushing buttons on this list was
> a favorite pastime of his, enough to earn him killfile status in more than
> one email inbox.  He was an early and long-standing contributor who sadly
> passed away a while back.  He was known in real life to many on this list -
> myself, sadly, not among them and I say that having had more than one
> off-list conversation in which we strongly disagreed with one another.
> Those who did know him left me with the impression that he was actually
> quite nice in real life though some I’ve heard from are also curmudgeons,
> so make of that what you will.
>
> Anyway, miss you Frank.  You made this joint interesting.
>
> Finally:
>
> - I don’t like point cues with more than one decimal, and prefer them to
> be related (internal fades, autofollows, etc.);
> - Huge or complex cue numbers seem like a recipe for oops;
> - Our SMs give Warning (wake up), Standby (be immediately ready), then Go
> (PUSH DA BUTTON) but don’t always include the first two if several cues are
> in quick succession;
> - I started out with numbers for lights and letters for sound, but there
> are often so many sound cues these days that both numbered is fine;
> - I’m mostly a TD, props person, and rigger so make of all this what you
> will.
>
> - Jim Dougherty
> ATD, Middlebury College
>
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