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Music and performance · MU-13
Lighting Cue Sheet
A free printable lighting cue sheet — cue number, go point, the look, fade time and follow-on for every cue, in the order the board operator reads them.
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One page. Choose your paper size — both versions are laid out identically, so neither one gets shrunk to fit.
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Fill it in type and save
The fillable versions have real form fields — open them in any PDF reader, type into them and save. Printing help.
What this sheet is for
Give the operator and the caller the same list, written so a cue can be taken from the words on the page without the designer in the room.
Who it is for
Lighting designers, board operators and deputy stage managers on amateur and professional productions, and school and college shows.
How to use it
- Head every sheet with the production, version and act so pages are never mixed between drafts.
- Number cues in the order they are taken, leaving gaps for cues added later.
- Write the go point as a line, a piece of action or a bar number — what the operator will actually hear or see.
- Describe the look in words the operator can check against the stage.
- Fill fade times and follow-ons from the designer's own plot.
What is on the sheet
One page, top to bottom:
Printed under the title: The cue list for one production, in the order the board operator reads it: cue number, where it goes, what it looks like and how it moves.
Write the go as the operator hears it. Write the go point as the operator will hear or see it — the last few words of a line, a piece of business, a bar number — not as a page reference alone. Fade times are the designer's own; the column is blank.
Write-on lines: Production · Venue · Version / date · Sheet no. · Lighting designer · Board operator · Called by (DSM) · Act / scene
Table, 13 rows: Cue · Page / bar · Go point (line, action, music) · Look / what changes · Time · Follow · Op notes
Questions
Why is the fade time column blank rather than pre-filled?
Because fade times belong to the designer and the show. A printed default would be wrong for almost every cue; the column is there to be written in from the plotting session.
Can I use it for sound cues too?
You can, with the same columns — cue, go point, what happens, time. If a show has many of both it is usually clearer to keep a separate sheet per department so the operators are not reading past each other's cues.
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