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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Master Cue Sheet
« on: Jun 08, 2016, 05:08 pm »
Hi,

I probably should have said in my first post but I'm a student working as an SM for our school's Performing Arts Department. We are rehearsing in the school hall until 30 June when we load into the theatre. Both the Director and Tech Director have asked for a Master for ease during the load in.

Sorry for not mentioning it in the first post.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Master Cue Sheet
« on: Jun 08, 2016, 11:48 am »
Hello everyone,

How do you create a master cue sheet?
I know that everything that is cued by an SM at any point throughout the show needs to go on the Master but how do you organise lights, sound and any other departments into one coherent cue list?

I will do the cue sheet in Excel for our director and TD can only access Excel. And the show goes up in 3 weeks (eek!)

Thanks for your guidance and tips.

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(Still getting used to the forum and tagging system so more do whatever you need to)

 Greetings everyone,
I have another question : when working on a standard stage - that is one which is rectangular - how do you before down blocking? I currently divide the stage up into 9 sections which are as follows:
USR UCS USL
SR CS SL
DSR DCS DSL

Is this way what is normally done in the industry or is there further divisions?

Edited to add topic tag- Maribeth

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Greetings everyone,

My LD has given the cues early as by Easter he will be going to Australia for a few weeks and he didn't want me to be chasing him for his cues due to the Director saying that the show will be frozen after Easter.

I have had a look over the cues - and I did before I posted yesterday - and unfortunately there is not enough time for me to say the cue number with about 19 cues happening in the space of three minutes. What would you advise I do here? I am going thinking that I just say "LX go". Is that right?

Also thanks for your advice on the previous question I had. I am new to stage management; I have called some cues before but only in the Tech and that was last year so I am open to any advice that you pros can give me on calling techniques, person problems or anything else that crops up.

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(Mods please feel free to move this post if it is the wrong place or add punctuation or other necessary items. I am new.)
Greetings everyone,

I am stage managing my secondary schools' production of Fame in June and my lighting designer - who is also my board op - has sent me his preliminary cue list with a bunch of notes that explains when cues are to be stood by and told to "go". For the opening number he has requested that LX 0.5 to 35 be stoodby at the same time. There is only one sound cue during this sequence. These are the 2 ways that I have heard of or been told to do: (I would have said " Standby LX 0.5 thru LX 35” beforehand)
1. LX go
2. LX 0.5 go

How have you called a group of stoodby cues from the same department?

Edited to add topic tag- Maribeth


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