Show dictionary · Production Management
Day Sheet
Also: daily · day schedule
A day sheet is the one-page daily schedule of a tour: city, venue, load-in time, soundcheck, doors, set times, curfew, bus call, hotel, and the contacts that matter today. Posted on the bus and backstage, it is the answer to every "what time is..." question.
In practice
The tour manager builds day sheets from the advance, and the discipline is that everything a crew member needs today fits on it: times, addresses, wifi passwords, per diem notes, tomorrow’s preview. Tours run on day sheets the way corporate shows run on run-of-show documents; the Rosetta Stone chart maps the dialects.
Modern tours push day sheets through apps as much as paper, but the form survives because the ritual works: wake up, find the sheet, know your day. The classic joke ("what city are we in?") is literally answered at the top of the page.
How you’ll hear it
"Per the day sheet: doors 7, support 8, changeover 8:45, us 9:15, bus call midnight."
Related resources
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