I was at the Yom Kippur Eve BRAIN and enjoyed it a lot more than I would have if the sound was working. YOU DO NOT NEED TO MIC PERFORMERS IN A 199 SEAT VENUE. I heard everything fine and I really didn't notice any of the problems BK mentioned. It would have been nice if the mics weren't so obvious (even if they weren't working). You should continue the run with sound design by God. It's a very funny show.
Here, here, aye, aye and all that! I agree!
I hate mics cause they're always screwing up -- our sound issues have plagued us every night of our run -- someone's is always not working, at some point there's always feed back at least one show, I hate how you can see those little things taped on people's faces (I mean, it's sooo not obvious it's a little mic and the audience is sooo fooled by the flesh colored tape -- they'll never notice the characters have stuff taped all over their faces, right?), you'll have a scene where it's obvious one character's mic is on and the other's mic is off, sound that is on a mic sounds like, well, sound on a mic and not pure, etc., etc., etc. It's all very distracting and takes away from the "magic" in my 2-cents' worth opinion.
It makes you wonder how shows managed before all this "advancement"(she says very sarcastically) in technology -- I think it was some bygone phrases like projection ... diction ... some kind'a words like that.... oh, and venues built with acoustics in mind ... but I will concede that for musicals the issue in the smaller houses is that when those combos and bands get going and aren't down in a pit, it can be hard to hear the singers over them. At our pit-less house, the band is right there stage right (in our case on this show a mere three feet from that edge of our set, grrrrr) ...and the majority of our partons are aged 70-plus so hearing is already an issue before they even walk through the door ...so what cha gonna do?
Technology -- can't live with it, can't live without it -- well, maybe ...
