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Articles from the Old Site / Re: Stage Management History?
« on: Jul 24, 2012, 03:51 am »
Thank you for reviving this thread! I saw it a few months ago when beginning a paper on how and why SMs were included in AEA for a college class but could not find it again while doing more research a few weeks ago.

As for particulars, I do have a mention of SMs and prompters in a document entitled "Boston Museum Rules and Regulations, 1880". In rule 9, it states, "The stage manager's and prompter's tables are strictly private. All business will be transacted in the stage manager's office." While I am aware that this is a very recent account, it is a good starting point for the investigation.

In terms of non-primary documents, I have found several listings for SMs and ASMs on IBDB, but I'm hesitant to rely completely on this as I'm not sure of their reliability. Also, I've found mention that Ludwig Kronek was credited as SM to George II, Duke of Sax Meningen, but his role seemed to be more of a director rather than an SM.

I know these do not form a complete origin story (or even come close) but I'm currently during more research into the role. At this point, I'm researching records of managers as they seem to have performed some of the tasks of modern SMs. I'll let you know if I find more.

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The Green Room / Re: "Nicholas Bracewell" Series of Novels
« on: May 26, 2012, 02:30 am »
Kudos to whoever recommended this series! Just finished The Queen's Head and I can't wait to read the next one.

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The first show I ASMed in college also happened to perform in the on campus roadhouse where I worked, which assigned calls and responsibilities relatively separate from the theatre department. Part of the roadhouse's policy with outside groups (and the department, though right next door, was considered an outside group in this case) was to have someone on staff there with keys to babysit, help out if necessary and most importantly, lock up at the end of the night. I checked every door the night of the last rehearsal before tech but decided to not check the doors that allowed scenery to enter from the scene shop. I found out the next morning from the TD in class that those doors had indeed been unlocked all day.  He was willing to overlook it and not tell my boss; unfortunately, the assistant artistic director also discovered the doors and not an hour after the TD mentioned it, he did as well. I did own up to it and apologized (nothing went missing) and understandably I was removed from the list of people trusted to lock up.  Luckily, he did believe in second chances so I am still working there (as well as finished the run of the show) and have been able to regain a bit of that trust.

In hindsight, lying to either the TD or the asst. artistic director would have been a very bad decision as it would have been impossible to continue working with them if I did lie. At least now the relationships still strongly exist.

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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament IV: Trivia's Revenge!!
« on: Feb 06, 2012, 01:52 am »
I guess my mouse/computer really didn't want me to get a good score today.

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The Green Room / Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« on: Jan 30, 2012, 07:27 am »
"I'm not your mother."

I've probably used this line way too much, even once on two of my roommates.

Who are also stage managers.

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The Green Room / Re: Picture Wars!
« on: Jan 22, 2012, 11:35 pm »



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(Matthew, I think you just described my degree track, minus the AEA course. My advisor would be happy to see that list.)

Most definitely there should be some sort of time for a forum of sorts at least once a month, as well as a class on AEA basics.


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The Green Room / Re: Picture Wars!
« on: Jan 20, 2012, 12:26 am »

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The Green Room / Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« on: Jan 20, 2012, 12:23 am »
Quiet please.

Where did you last see your prop/shoes/script?

I also like sleep, food, coffee and a shower.

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The Green Room / Re: Picture Wars!
« on: Dec 30, 2011, 12:44 am »

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The Green Room / Re: Best one-liner from a performance report
« on: Oct 14, 2011, 04:13 am »
So this is from a rehearsal report from tonight that I was so happy to see (my assistant was pretty excited too):

"The corpse is great, thank you!"

They still have three more corpses in various states of decay heading into rehearsal within the next week.
This is one show I don't mind being the props person for!  ;D

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The Green Room / Re: Reading Plays
« on: Sep 30, 2011, 01:23 am »
I'm definitely enjoying Suzan-Lori Parks right now, especially after she gave a talk at my school. 365 Days/365 Plays is a good place to start with her as the plays are 1-10 pages long.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Broadway Internship?
« on: Sep 11, 2011, 12:23 am »
One of the recent graduates from my program got an internship with Wicked not too long ago. I don't know how she got it but it seems a little bit different than the guy above's experience. My friend claims to be on the internship until January yet she's been actively working on several other projects since the internship started.

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The conference is happening again this year, this time on September 8-10, again at UNCSA. The previous link is updated.

Honestly wish I could go but looks like time and finances are against me.

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If all the world's a stage, how do you access the fly rail?

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