Getting Started: Your First Production
The dashboard you land on, creating a production, and finding your way around its Overview and menu.
What it helps with
- Setting up a production in the first ten minutes
- Where everything lives once the production exists
- Moving a company off the spreadsheet everyone has a different copy of
How Getting Started: Your First Production works
- Welcome to CueCall: Dashboard — Your dashboard shows a comprehensive overview of all your productions with widgets for schedules, assignments, tasks, and more.
- Dashboard: Customize your dashboard — Click Customize in the top-right of the Dashboard to:
- Tips & Tricks: Dashboard — Your dashboard shows a unified view of all your productions and assignments.
- Welcome to CueCall: Finding Your Way Around — The menu on the left keeps the same shape everywhere in CueCall, so each destination is always in the place you last found it — including while you have a show open.
- Managing Shows: Creating a Show — Creating a show is a simple two-step process:
- Managing Shows: Show Overview Tab — The Overview tab is your show's home page with key information at a glance.
More in Production Planning
- Scene Breakdown & Readiness — Scenes are the hub that links people, inventory, notes and files, with a readiness status tracked per discipline.
- Production Calendar — A rehearsal and performance calendar with recurring events, scene links and subscription feeds the team can add to their own calendars.
- Tasks & Delegation — Production to-dos assigned to one or several people, delegated down, and tracked on each person's dashboard.
- Department-Tagged Notes — Notes tagged by department and attached to scenes, people, files or inventory, searchable across the whole show.
- Rehearsal Reports — Rehearsal reports drafted automatically from the day's notes and timeline, reviewed by the stage manager, then published and emailed to the team.
- Budgets & Expenses — Budget lines and recorded expenses with receipts, where who can see or spend against the budget is granted person by person.
- Stage Blocking & Scene Visuals — Blocking recorded against a scene alongside backdrop images and reference videos.
Try CueCall
Your first two shows are free for a full year each, with every feature and unlimited users. Pricing is per show, not per user.