Bright Star, by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, and Mamma Mia! are just a couple of the hit musicals that have shared the stages of both Broadway and the Theater Arts Departments of the Edmond, OK Public Schools District which serves more than 26,200 students with 19 elementary schools, six middle schools, three high schools. Additionally, Edmond North High School, Edmond Memorial High School, and Santa Fe High School each have its own Performing Arts Center. And each of those auditoriums share something else with Broadway—DiGiCo SD-Range consoles in the form of SD9T audio consoles at front of house, all fitted with DiGiCo’s theater software package.
Anthony Risi, the technical director at Edmond Memorial High School and a veteran theater-audio engineer and supervisor himself, has for years helped the schools make do with their previous set of audio consoles, all of which were in various stages of deterioration. But an encounter with the DiGiCo SD7T console at Oklahoma City’s Civic Center Music Hall several years ago convinced him that SD-Range desks would provide the high school venues with world-class audio performance while at the same time preparing students in the schools’ theater-arts programs for the mixing tool they would encounter at the university level—such as the DiGiCo console at the University of Central Oklahoma’s theater—and later in their professional careers.
