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Students and Novice Stage Managers / The Raison D"etre
« on: Nov 11, 2005, 02:58 pm »
Excuse my poor French Spelling ability

While I would love to work on a Broadway show (HEY ANYONE LOOKING FOR HELP OUT THERE HINT HINT), It is not the end all be all for my career.

There are moments in everyshow that we do, were everything just comes together,  that there is no line between script, actor, intention, cueing.

it all just comes together and makes a moment

those are what I strive for in my work,  when a person just is moved by the show, and doesn't realize why, and on how many different levels they are being reach on.

It is a collabrative art after all.

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The Green Room / the big kid in me
« on: Nov 09, 2005, 01:18 pm »
Now I know he wasn't but as the series went on,  didn't Scooter take on a lot what we would call SM duties on the muppet show?

Was there a SM on the muppets?

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Your book Left or right?
« on: Nov 06, 2005, 08:20 pm »
Quote from: "erin"
Quote from: "gridkot"
 A tip on calling a consistent show:  I put a bold "." where I should start winding up the que so that there is a consistent pause between the que and the "go".  I hate it when I hear myself wind up too soon and then have to say "wait for it...GO!"  When I figure out the rhythm of the que, it remains the same every night.


I do a similar note:  a " /  " when i start loading the cue.   On occasions where i don't note the start, for whatever reason, i find myself constantly second-guessing myself and end up with erratic pacing.  It's one of those little things we can do to help the board ops :)


I draw a highlighted line  to the specific spot where i start all my calls,  red for standbys  greens for gos

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SMNetwork Archives / kit
« on: Nov 06, 2005, 08:17 pm »
RICOLA!  especially if you are doing opera/multiple musical seasons

I was doing 5 musicals in rotating rep, and rehearsing a new show every week.  I wrote ricola with my situation and they sent me a case for free.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / too each his own
« on: Nov 05, 2005, 08:23 pm »
As I scan thru the responses, I see we all use variations on the theme.

Obviously we need to use what is best for ourselves so our production runs smoothly

(I'm a text left/blocking right guy, Extra large margin on left for q's)

When I am doing a particularly large musical, or a musical when the script and score don't always match up, I do cut and paste a book together that combines script and score and constantly moves forward (no repeat measures)

It means a lot of coping, and getting your MD to get you any and all musical cuts ASAP

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The Hardline / TYA Per Diem Rules
« on: Nov 05, 2005, 07:42 pm »
Wow,

I think this post is about me.

I was the SM on this 5 member TYA tour.   THe producer was upfront with me in the interview (6 weeks before first rehearsal) about the hotel booking plan.  I said, well if the actors are ok with it, it shouldn't be that big a deal for me. (Knowing if I wanted to, i could book a single and then be re-imbursed the overage)

Apparently no one told the actors.  and 3 weeks after we received the our  tour itinary (8 days before we went on the road) One of the actors noticed it.  We talked amongst ourselves and  and since the first leg of the tour only was for a week on the road and the rest was all day runs out of NYC, we said well lets see how it works.

After the first night one of the actors (the partner to phillydan's actor) decided he didn't like it.  But  he didn't tell me til the the night before we went back to NYC.

Over the next 3 weeks of touring, when hotels were needed  I took a single when I could, or one actor in the company happened to have family in the area which allowed us to 2 and 2 it.

The Company, belatedly, had made a series of offers in which was to help minimize the overage, and limit the financial burden off of me by asking us to rotate in the single, either as a group of 5 or just the three men,  or
spliting the cost of the three rooms five or 3 ways.

the math was fuzzy at best,  and while I appreciated the intention as not to make me always spend the full  85% of per diem on housing.  The actor did not want to have ever pay for a single and be  re-imbursed.

So he gave notice, and then the other male actor did too, because he knew who ever replaced the first actor, he would be used to the way this company did business I guess,  I never really knew  why, since at this point the company had acquiesed and was booking the third room.

I would have taken personally, but when the two new actors came in to replace them, we talked and they asked to split the room 3 ways whenever possible. So we started cancelling the third room.  

I got re-imbursed all my hotel expenses when i did book a third room, in a very timely manner.

Mind you,  I wouldn't take another extend road tour with this company tho

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