This app allows users to play show scores using performance accompaniment recordings. It provides essential resources for musical theatre productions, offering immediate assistance for any emergencies during a show.
2.6(88 ratings)
Free
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Updated October 2026
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2.4(8 ratings)
Free
This app plays show scores using performance accompaniment recordings. Users can adjust tempo, key, create vamps, and navigate measures in real time. Authorization from an organization is required to access all features.
Show|Ready by Right On Cue Services, LLC
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🎵 Music
2.8😞(81 ratings)
Free
This app provides essential music rehearsal tools for musical theater productions. It offers playback features on iOS devices and director's editing on iPads. A license from a theatrical publisher is required to use the app.
What We Love
- 👍 Handy tool for learning parts
- 👍 Useful for theater kids
- 👍 Good for practicing songs
- 👍 Helpful for learning harmonies
- 👍 Can layer voices in/out
- 👍 Settings save correctly
- 👍 Good for teaching students
- 👍 Can adjust sliders/mutes/solos
- 👍 Works on iPad
- 👍 Helpful for lead roles with harmonies
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Constantly crashing
- 🐛 Glitchy and buggy
- 🐛 App freezes often
- 🐛 Hard to play transition tracks
- 🐛 Sound stops instead of restarting
- 🐛 Rewind button issues
- 🐛 Metronome cannot be turned off
- 🐛 Lacks guitar/drums in tracks
- 🐛 Tracks sound odd (piano/metronome)
- 🐛 Irritating to use
- 🐛 Does not load on iPhone
- 🐛 Randomly kicks user out
- 🐛 Buttons not showing on iPhone
- 🐛 Unreadable button tops
- 🐛 Kicked out after entering passcode
- 🐛 Songs don't have words with vocals
- 🐛 App disappears from phone
- 🐛 Needs to be reloaded
- 🐛 Crashes when trying to repeat songs
- 🐛 Horrible and glitchy
- 🐛 Does not keep user show ready
- 🐛 Freezes and needs restarting
- 🐛 Part mute/solo buttons unreliable
- 🐛 Tab bar hides information on iPad
- 🐛 Music stops playing, only click track
- 🐛 Needs delete/reinstall to fix
- 🐛 Glitches at jump cues
- 🐛 Tempo changes disappear after freeze
- 🐛 Glitches on vamps/repeats/cesuras
- 🐛 Needs complete reboot
- 🐛 UI crowded with admin features
- 🐛 No ability to loop
- 🐛 Low bass buzzing
- 🐛 Buttons at bottom not visible
- 🐛 No vocal tracks to follow
- 🐛 Kicked off app within seconds
- 🐛 Tracks not present
- 🐛 Old design
- 🐛 Audio freezes
- 🐛 Not worth getting
- 🐛 Long download time
- 🐛 Tempo issues or stops briefly
- 🐛 Latest iOS update issues?
- 🐛 Song comes in/out at specific measures
- 🐛 Adjustments do not save
- 🐛 Wasted time resetting adjustments
- 🐛 Needs to reset adjustments every time
- 🐛 Changes on the fly are frustrating
- 🐛 Wouldn't let me log in for a while
- 🐛 Needs better quality instruments
- 🐛 Unintuitive interface
- 🐛 No tutorials or in-app help
- 🐛 Difficult to see what you are doing
- 🐛 Measures/track numbers don't match
- 🐛 No good way to select specific measures
- 🐛 Audio levels constantly changing
- 🐛 Settings continually shifting to defaults
- 🐛 Parts not playing sometimes
- 🐛 Cannot practice orchestra parts
- 🐛 Cannot play parts after repeat/fermata
- 🐛 Constantly crashing when opening
- 🐛 App won't open at all
- 🐛 Immediately closes
- 🐛 Doesn't show music
- 🐛 Kicks out within seconds
- 🐛 Doesn't show songs
- 🐛 Randomly mutes everything
- 🐛 New update hides song title
- 🐛 Instruments sound bad/no emotion
- 🐛 Distracting and takes from experience
- 🐛 Laggy and overall terrible
