Godspell

I was responsible for the sound design for the spring musical. Godspell won 16 Spotlight awards, among them, one for sound design.

I handled sound design and board operation for the second time for Godspell. This is Edina's spring musical, which is much smaller than the fall musical. Godspell is primarily an ensemble show. Meaning that anyone at any time could be speaking on stage. We had 22 people in the cast. It was quite a challenge to balance all 22 voices.

This show was performed at a different theater than the other shows that I've worked on. It was in Fick Auditorium and the cast was often in the audience and in front of speakers. Feedback was a concern. That was dealt with in tech rehearsals by pushing the mic levels up as far as they could go without causing feedback, and then adjusting them from that level.

A lot of the work for Godspell was done during the show and not in the planning of the show. Which was both a good and bad thing, considering that I had less work to do for the show and could focus on school, but we only got a week to run all 22 mics before opening. As mentioned before, the show won 16 Spotlight awards, and I won one for Sound Design.

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