EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, NOVEMBER 29, 2023 – Masque Sounda number one theatrical sound reinforcement, set up and design firm, has as soon as once more teamed up with Sound Designer Joshua D. Reid to carry the touring productions of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical to life with a customized audio gear package deal, for each its East and West Coast tour.
That includes the hit songs “You’re A Imply One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome Christmas,” The Grinch discovers there’s extra to Christmas than he bargained for on this heart-warming vacation traditional. Max the Canine narrates because the imply and scheming Grinch, whose coronary heart is “two sizes too small,” decides to steal Christmas away from the holiday-loving Whos.
In designing the sound for this 12 months’s Grinch tour, Reid’s objective was to create a versatile and environment friendly touring sound system that would seize the magic of Dr. Seuss’ traditional vacation narrative whereas offering the best stage of readability for audiences, in addition to a constantly pleasing expertise.
Reid confronted the added stress of offering sound programs for 2 excursions, an East Coast and a West Coast touring route, that had been constructed concurrently. “Every venue on our tour route has its personal acoustical qualities and protection areas for the viewers that need to be taken under consideration and we need to present each viewers member with the identical high-quality expertise of the present at every efficiency,” says Reid. “Our greatest design problem is all the time designing a sound system that’s compact sufficient for environment friendly touring, whereas additionally expansive sufficient to offer optimum protection and an equally enjoyable expertise for audiences in any respect of our touring venues. The present itself is sort of giant, with 26 solid members, a 13-member reside orchestra and 17 touring crew members. Managing each builds on the similar time was an enormous feat for each our audio crew as nicely as those that had been supporting us at Masque Sound. It took greater than 30 individuals to construct each excursions inside a two-week window of time, however we’re as soon as once more, very proud of the outcomes.”
The sound system for each excursions this 12 months was designed with minimal interconnect in thoughts. “Due to the nice work of Masque Sound Undertaking Supervisor Cami Letrick, each excursions are virtually an identical of their design,” provides Reid. “Our mixing console is a Yamaha CL5, and we make the most of eight computer systems that handle QLab 5 for playback, an Ableton Reside DAW, Present Management and RF administration. Our speaker towers include d&b Audiotechnik Y8 and Y12 line arrays, accompanied by d&b B4 Subwoofers, d&b Y7P loudspeakers, and E8 and E3 fill audio system. Every touring rack in our system is related to a Dante community, offering redundant help for all programs and vastly minimizing cabling interconnect. We additionally journey with 36 channels of Shure ULXD1 wi-fi transmitters, paired with ULXD4Q wi-fi receivers, which additionally digitally interface with the sound system over the Dante community. Pit orchestra help is supplied with Aviom D800-Dante A-Internet Distributors and 16 private mixing stations of, A-16II and A360 Private Mixers. Clear-Com FreeSpeak-II gives versatile and clear communications for the manufacturing.”
For Reid, the collaboration with Masque Sound and his crew on this 12 months’s manufacturing of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical was as soon as once more an unimaginable journey. “Masque Sound has been a useful associate in bringing this imaginative and prescient to life for the previous few years,” says Reid. “Masque Sound’s understanding of the present’s intricate necessities not solely makes it doable to create a sonic surroundings that completely enhances the grandeur of this manufacturing, however additionally they present the personnel help for the wants of the route and gear that we take out on the highway with us. As well as, the present wouldn’t be the success that it’s with out my crew who work tirelessly day in and time out. My Affiliate Sound Designer Sam Kusnetz; Manufacturing Engineer Noah Dettman; Manufacturing Engineer & FOH Audio Engineer (West Coast) Mike Deyo; FOH Audio Engineer (East Coast) Davie Voelker; Deck Audio Engineer (East Coast) Meg Schelling, and Deck Audio Engineer (West Coast) Macy Kloville, all do an unimaginable job, and I’m very pleased with each one in every of them. This design couldn’t have been completed with out the fixed help of our Manufacturing Supervisor, Heather Chockley, in addition to Jayna Neagle and our associates at Crossroads Reside North America.”
For extra data or to buy tickets, please go to www.grinchmusical.com. The tour is at present scheduled to run by means of the top of December with upcoming stops together with San Jose, Windfall, Los Angeles, Durham, Richmond, Costa Mesa, Chicago and Sacramento.
“Masque Sound may be very lucky to work with such a gifted skilled,” says Scott Kalata, director of gross sales, Masque Sound. “We look ahead to supporting Josh for years to come back.”
