Two of the hottest musicals this Broadway season are supported by reinforcement
systems built around Meyer Sound LYON™ linear line array loudspeakers: School of
Rock features music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and sound design by Mick Potter,
while On Your Feet, the inspiring story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, is supported by
a system designed by Andrew Keister and Steve Canyon Kennedy of SCK Sound
Design. Both shows mark the Broadway debut of LYON.

With School of Rock opening to rave reviews in early December, Potter says that
his choice of LYON to cover the 1,500-seat Winter Garden Theatre was a matter of
scaling up from the LEO Family’s newest and smallest loudspeaker, LEOPARD™.

“We workshopped the show at the much smaller Gramercy Theatre, where we had
10 LEOPARDs per side,’ explains Potter, who has designed sound for Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s productions for over 15 years.

Opening at the 1,600-seat Marquis Theatre Broadway in early November, On Your
Feet is a musical drama that interweaves the life stories of the Estefans with
exuberant performances of Miami Sound Machine’s Latin pop hits.

Keister and Kennedy had used LYON in 2014 for a production at the 6,000-capacity
Radio City Music Hall, and he was eager to try it in a smaller Broadway house.

Keister notes that more than half of the show is “a quaint, intimate love story’ that
hinges on soft dialogue. “At first we thought we couldn’t do these quiet, dramatic
scenes with a giant PA, but we found a way to change the filter settings in the
Galileo processors. That way, the LYONs seamlessly fade in and out between
intimate drama and full-on concert modes.’

The main proscenium system for School of Rock features 24 LYON-W loudspeakers,
four DS-4P mid-bass loudspeakers, 21 MINA™ line array loudspeakers, two UPJ-1P
loudspeakers, and eight 900-LFC and two 1100-LFC low-frequency control elements.
Ninety more Meyer Sound loudspeakers ranging from the UP-4XP loudspeaker to
the 500-HP subwoofer are also used for fills, delays, stage imaging, and stage
band. A Galileo® Callisto™ loudspeaker management system with 10 Galileo
Callisto 616 array processors handles system drive and optimization.

The On Your Feet system comprises twin arrays of 10 LYON-M and two LYON-W
loudspeakers each, 14 600-HP subwoofers with four overhead in a directional end-
fire array, and two 700-HP subwoofers. Forty-two additional Meyer Sound
loudspeakers are deployed in the fill, delay, stage monitor, and effects systems.

All Meyer Sound components for both musicals were provided by New York-based
Sound Associates, with logistical coordination by Domonic Sack.