Sweet Bonanza

Sweet Bonanza is a live show-calling board for community-theater stage managers, high-school drama crews, church pageant captains, and black-box directors who need to run Standby, GO, and Complete. It is not a rehearsal diary and not a lighting-theory lecture. Every screen is prefilled so a first-time caller can run a full act offline, in a dark house, with a paddle built for thumbs. Three seeded productions, never an empty board A one-act comedy, a black-box drama, and a holiday pageant each arrive with 36 to 50 lighting, sound, deck, and video cues plus act and scene markers. Open the app and start calling. No venue network. No blank cue list. Live caller Take Standby, GO, Hold, and Jump Back on oversized cue numbers. Auto-follow advances the stack. Haptic GO confirmation tells you the call landed without looking away from the stage. Department color rails Filter chips hide departments you are not calling. A lighting operator can silence sound and deck traffic and keep only LX on the rail. Places walk Before house open, check glow tape, headset, playback armed, iron, and ghost light. Pass and fail tiles keep the walk honest in low light. Rundown clock See elapsed time, remaining time, and an intermission chime by act and scene so you always know where you are in the show. Cue inspector and headset grammar Each cue card covers count, target, recover, warning, and the exact standby wording. Mnemonic cards teach calling syntax such as Standby LX 14 and Sound 9 GO. Afterglow recap Missed GOs, early GOs, and holds appear as session stats when the act ends—not as a journal you have to write. Home Screen Glance A widget shows the next cue number, department color, and standby line so you can arm the call before you unlock. Quiet-house preferences Choose GO paddle side, haptic intensity, tungsten or lime theme, and notification policy. The house stays dark. The paddle stays huge. Call a real cue stack with department color, headset grammar, and a places walk before the ghost light goes out.