Whenever I try to take pictures of actors in a stage show, the colors always end up looking wrong. I assume it's something to do with the abnormal lighting—we don't have peach, blue, green, and amber light shining on us in "real life", after all—but I'm not sure how to compensate for the difference between what the camera expects and what it gets from a stage.
I shoot in JPEG using a Canon PowerShot SD750. Not the most advanced camera in the world, but I have been toying with CHDK on it.
Answer
Generally speaking, stage lighting is tungsten in origin. As such, I recommend setting your white-balance to that. Sure, the gels are going to give all sorts of other colors, but if your settings match what the actual lights are, you'll have the best chances at a reasonable facsimile of what your eyes were seeing.
And yes, if you can shoot RAW (with CHDK, in your case), that will help you be more able to fine-tune, handle the edges of the dynamic range, etc.
Happy shooting!
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