I don't remember the first show I SMed....I do remember my first professional show though - it was a huge in-house production of The Wizard of Ozat the theatre where I was house crew. The LX operator (who was also house crew) hated me, didn't think I could do the job, and so pretty much ignored a lot of my calls and took the cues where SHE thought they should go, which did not often coincide with where I thought they should go. Needless to say, this did not last long before the director went mad and told her to stop being such an unprofessional child. The rest of the crew were brilliant and the cast was all lovely, so generally it was a positive experience once we'd had the row about lighting cues!