I mean what is the difference between a humdrum stage manager and someone on broadway?
Careful of that one! :wink: There are lots of good SMs out there that have never had an interest in SMing on Broadway.
what's THE place to stage manage? That If you get there you know you're REALLY good.
For me, THE place to stage manage is the place that pays you want you want to get, while working with people you want to work with in the city that you want to live.
I think of it more in personal terms. Having a goal of what you want to do, and getting there. When I left college, I my goal was to tour. I am touring, and that is making me happy because I had made my goal. The next step for me? Maybe finding a good theatre to work for at home.
What do stage managers aspire to? The perfect show? The perfectly called cue? The perfect theatre?
Scoot said it for me. I aspire to the fact that I am making my living doing something that I love, and not sitting behind a desk in some mindless corporate job.
At what point do you get somewhere and say you are there? Is there even any huge goals like that for stage managers?
-isha
I'd say when you are happy. For me, I have never in my life wanted to live in NYC, or anywhere on the east coast. There is a glamor to saying that 'you've worked on broadway' - but for me that doesn't make up for the fact that its a very, very large, expensive, and crowded city to live in. Doesn't appeal to me.
Personally, I admire the folks who've got such good reputations in a particular city that they hardly need to send resumes anymore, they're just called with job offers. To me, when you're never lacking for work becuase you're wanted by so many folks, that's being good.
-Centaura