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« on: Sep 26, 2012, 07:04 pm »
I've noticed a local trend of stage managers or stage management getting mentioned in reviews. It's only happened 2-3 times in the last few weeks, but considering the usual treatment of stage managers (*crickets*), that's quite a change.

Have any of you been mentioned, plugged, hat-tipped, criticized, lionized, vilified or otherwise addressed in a review? (Directly? Indirectly? Someone else getting credit for something that was totally up to you?)

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #1 on: Sep 26, 2012, 07:12 pm »
I have been mentioned but mostly in general if there show was technically complex, but never by name.

My feeling is that stage management should be pretty invisible - and if I was called out either pro or con, I would feel very awkward. 

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #2 on: Sep 26, 2012, 07:26 pm »
Huh, thanks for starting this. Just discovered that the site was namechecked in another textbook. (Y'all have your reviews, I've got mine.)

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #3 on: Sep 26, 2012, 07:35 pm »
There are a couple of local reviewers (not the big boys) who always make sure the SM is mentioned in the review. Not reviewed, but on the page. It's kinda fun. Esp as some of the reviewers and I know each other by now, I always thank them.

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #4 on: Sep 26, 2012, 10:20 pm »
I've never seen one mentioned in a review. My knee jerk reaction would be something disastrous happened onstage and they weren't doing their job correctly.

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #5 on: Sep 26, 2012, 11:37 pm »
I don't think I've ver mentioned the stage manager by name in one of my reviews. A few of my writers have though, usually along the context of "Scene changes were coordinated by so and so." or in acknowledgement of a complex cue sequence.

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #6 on: Sep 26, 2012, 11:54 pm »
Closest I've come to an actual review would be a critic complimenting the blood FX (I had a blood gun!) for a show. Another critic praised the scene shifts in another show (where the cast rotated the entire diner set 45 degrees 3 times), and I was proud of that.

I'm happy if my name makes the summary at the bottom of the article. :)
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Re: Reviews
« Reply #7 on: Sep 27, 2012, 11:08 am »
I'd take a job referral over a review mention any day!

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #8 on: Sep 27, 2012, 01:51 pm »
I haven't but I did read a review in a small local paper where the critic thought the scene changes went badly and blamed the stage manager. I felt bad for the SM. That would have killed me.

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Re: Reviews
« Reply #9 on: Sep 27, 2012, 08:04 pm »
I just pray I get mentioned in the box at the bottom where it lists the cast and design team.
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Re: Reviews
« Reply #10 on: Sep 27, 2012, 08:12 pm »
That's the mention we get - those last few sentences that list the design team and the SM.

 

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