A small local theatre company that I'm helping with on their panto wants to run their show with multiple cue lists.
One cue list will act as the "Main" cue list.
There will be subsequent cue lists for each song in the show, the "Music" cue lists. At the end of each song, it goes back to the "Main" cue list.
Their reason to do this is that if there are any changes to songs/music during rehearsals, the "Main" cue list doesn't get affected.
I recommended using "Link" but was told they tried it before and it resulted in some unwanted moves.
A test version they sent me had the cues in the "Music" cue list being triggered by cues in the "Main" cue list using "Execute"
For example
Q1/2 would execute Q2/1
Q1/3 would execute Q2/2
This worked in the show file they sent me but I can't tell if this will do what they want in the show, as I couldn't tell which cue list was doing what. It just seemed to me that they were programming a lot of dummy cues simply to trigger cues in another list.
Can anyone provide me with some information if this is a good way to do it? Or another viable way that is efficient and easy to run. They are an amateur theatre company so limited tech time as well as available professional experience.