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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / REHEARSALS: Giving line notes

« on: May 31, 2010, 06:29 pm »

For this show I have been asked to send out line notes via email after rehearsals.
Sometimes we do multiple runs of the show in one rehearsal.
If an actor called for a line/made a mistake during the first run through, but fixed it in the next one, should I send the note out in the line notes anyway?

Edited subject line-Rebbe

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / TD Unconcerned with Safety

« on: Apr 22, 2010, 09:51 am »

Hello all,
Here is an issue for you: I am a student at a University and I am Stage Managing their current production. There are some safety hazards on the set and when those are communicated both verbally and via rehearsal reports to the TD, they are dismissed as being "trivial" and not important enough to fix. (Issues such as the stage floor being uneven when we have a chase scene as well as dancing).
How do you suggest I go about getting the TD to understand the seriousness of the hazard? I have mentioned that people have tripped, I have been told not to alter it during rehearsals since that is not my job.
Where does the priority lie between my job in keeping the actors safe and the TD's job of making a safe set?

Thanks for your help!

SMRoni16