<html><head></head><body>Tue, 1 May 2007 from: Elliott Shevin <eshevin@hotmail.com><BR>>> I believe the Heter was based on the fact that the faces of the women> in the play could not be seen from the seats that were being sold by> ACHDS and the sound heard was that of a microphone reproduction and> not their actual voices. <<<BR><BR>>It seems to me that as a practical matter, some of the actor's own voice <BR>will be audible, in addition to the sound system--although so little, it <BR>may be butil. <<BR><BR>When Rabbi Jay Marcus was the Rav of the Young Israel of Staten Island, he told us he ran an experiment in a theatre: He asked the people in charge to turn off the sound equipment for one moment, to see if he could hear the singing. He said he didn't. <BR><BR>Zvi Lampel<BR><BR><br></body></html>