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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Rehearsals: Be quiet!
« on: Oct 23, 2015, 12:43 pm »
I'm a freshman in college, but for ten years prior I was in a traveling performance group of young people so I understand the whole "kids won't shut up" thing. When I was younger, I was one of those kids who couldn't keep quiet. The entire process of doing a show is so exciting and it's so much fun to be with your friends back stage that you get caught up in it and forget the big picture. When I got older, I was always the one corralling the loud ones and trying to convince them to be quiet. Honestly, because I understood that jittery excitement that causes loud voices, I could use that understanding to hush them up. Instead of just yelling and being the "bad guy," I would explain the importance of silence and how terrible we would look if the audience could hear us backstage while our friends were performing. A lot of times, people are so self-focused that they don't see how their actions will affect their peers. Kids are dumb, and they need to be told kindly and firmly how their immaturity will have consequences.