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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: REPORTS: Director doesn't want rehearsal reports?

« on: Jan 09, 2016, 06:10 am »

Thanks for your advice everyone! I think I am going to send out reports anyway.

I'm glad you thought of this and made a plan! I made a massive error during my first ASM/SM experience by thinking others would know the minutiae, even if they tell me not to worry about it or they don't expect me to write it down. I figured it out eventually that someone needs to be relied upon to have a record, because it's inevitable that some detail was lost from rehearsal to rehearsal or production meeting to rehearsal. Chances are, your director won't fumble and things will go smoothly, but it's nice to be a quiet safety net just in case. If you think back to how many hours you spend in your job just hearing information being passed along, it's almost a little frightening to imagine some of it being lost forever to the theatre depths.