Piper3500 -- well then who do we blame?
Yes, I admit I am blaming "the sound guy" whose fault it MAY NOT be. However, for the same exact issues to be happening two years in a row brings up a lot of questions. You would think management would want to make sure that, after last year, viewers could HEAR this year.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle