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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!

« on: Jan 09, 2014, 07:55 pm »

Does anyone have the Samuel French edition of Noises Off in one page to a 8"x11" page style? (As opposed to the 2 "pages" to an 8"x11" style). Word document preferable, PDF is wonderful too.

Please PM me asap!

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: BLOCKING: Blocking notation and stage spikes for 2-level set

« on: Nov 23, 2012, 09:13 pm »

Hi all! I just wanted to say thank you again for your input! Things got busy in a hurry which is why this is so late. My director didn't have an opinion on how we spiked the floor so what we ended up doing was using a different color for each level with another color for the emergency stairs, red for level 1, blue for level 2, and dark green for the emergency stairs during act 2, and then we simply rehearsed act 2 as if we never had to turn it around, and then I went through with spike tape and numbered the doors to make them easier to track, so I knew that 1-4 were on the first floor and 5-8 were on the second floor. We were fortunate enough that our set dimensions didn't overlap much and it was a very simple layout so it was relatively easy to distinguish between the two floors. The shop foreman and I then talked the actors through it before our first blocking rehearsal.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: BLOCKING: Blocking notation and stage spikes for 2-level set

« on: Sep 17, 2012, 04:30 am »

BayAreaSM ahh thank you so much!! That blocking notation seems like it could save me a lot of hassle! I'm definitely going to check the BTDT link. Unfortunately, we're a little community college, so making mock levels isn't possible. It's a great idea though, I'm definitely going to tuck it into my back pocket to try for later!

Maribeth Thanks! I'm going to ask him tomorrow if he has a preference for sure, and will definitely use the L2 underlining idea, seems like it makes it nice and clear.

Beatr79 Thanks! I'm really leaning towards that idea too if my director agrees, the show requires such precise timing that if we could solve the problem that way, having L2 USC of L1, that would just be great

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / BLOCKING: Blocking notation and stage spikes for 2-level set

« on: Sep 14, 2012, 03:37 pm »

Hi all,

This might be a silly couple of questions, but I'm SM on a production of Noises Off, and it is a 2-level set. As is probably obvious, I need to spike the rehearsal space as soon as possible to ease blocking, but how could I go about this? The only thing I can think of is to set the second level behind the first with the stairs leading from the first level to the second level, but that's far from ideal.... could I possibly simply place different color spike tape directly next to each other to indicate the different levels? Like Blue for ground level, Red for the second level, would that read well? I'm still leaning towards the first option, simply because it could allow the actors to get a sense of how many steps they'll be ascending/descending, but I'm not sure if that is truly the best option, I'm concerned the actors would get used to going upstage and then be thrown off when we get the set and they have to climb stairs...

I'm also at a bit of a loss as to how I can notate the blocking. I'm pretty sure the method of simply putting the second level behind the first will work well for that, I just want to be sure-what do ya'll think?