Fly system
Also called: Fly rail, Flies, Battens, Line sets.
The fly system is the rigging above a proscenium stage — battens on counterweighted or motorised line sets — used to raise scenery, drops and lighting out of sight and bring them in on cue. Flying a piece is a fly cue, called by the stage manager and executed by the fly crew at the rail.
In CueCall
Fly is one of the eight cue departments on the Master Cue Sheet, and a fly cue can be given a duty on the run sheets for whoever is on the rail.
Features
- Tech Cues — Light, sound, deck and other cues recorded against scenes, with a master cue view and filtering by type.
- Reports & Exports — Excel and PDF exports of characters, mic plots, slideshows and show reports, for the people who still want paper in the room.
Related terms
- Cue sheet — A cue sheet lists every technical cue in a production in running order, with its number, its department (lighting, sound, fly, automation, followspot…
- Deck crew — The deck crew are the people who move scenery, set props and run the stage during a performance, under the assistant stage manager. Each crew member has a…
- Proscenium, thrust and arena stages — A proscenium stage faces the audience through an arch, with the action seen from one side. A thrust stage projects into the house so the audience sits on three…
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