When you’re making live TV, there are no second chances. “There are always things that come up that are unexpected. You have to handle that and move on,” says audio mixer Mark Young. “Every live musical that I have done brings its own challenges.”
That was certainly the case in January when he worked on Fox’s Rent: Live, based on the 1996 Tony-winning musical about a group of young artists in the East Village. After Brennin Hunt, who played Roger, broke his foot during a dress rehearsal the day before the broadcast, Fox chose to air the dress rehearsal as performed in front of a Fox Studios audience, and only the last act was performed live, with Hunt in a wheelchair.
“It’s stressful,” Young admits. “But on the other hand,…