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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #15 on: Jan 28, 2012, 08:58 pm »
"I'm just calling to make sure you're on your way.  Rehearsal began at [time].  Call me if there's a problem."

"Take 10, ladies and gentlemen!  Ten minutes, please!"

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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #16 on: Jan 28, 2012, 10:21 pm »
"Don't worry, after this, you never have to work with them again."

"This is the longest preshow speech ever."

"who needs sleep?"

"please restrict your naked time to inside the dressing room only please. "

"is that the fog machine or a fire backstage?"
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #17 on: Jan 29, 2012, 12:48 pm »
"Don't lick the props."

"Trying to take a cab to the theatre on New Year's Eve might not have been the best choice you've ever made. You have three minutes to be ready to go."

"I am going to murder the person who left the remains of their lunch on my prop shelf."

"What do you mean you can't find your socks?"

"What broke?"

"Is anyone hurt?"

"Thank God I don't have stage fright."

"Everyone has already confirmed for the production meeting, and you want me to reschedule it because you don't feel like coming in before noon? . . . . Fine. Give me ten minutes."

"Hold.  Restore."

Anyone mind if  try to make the S### Stage Managers Say video? I've been wanting to try out my web cam for a while.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #18 on: Jan 29, 2012, 01:00 pm »
Quote from: tempest_gypsy on Jan 29, 2012, 12:48 pm
"Don't lick the props."

Don't lick the actors . . . I HAVE GIVEN THAT NOTE.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #19 on: Jan 29, 2012, 03:45 pm »
Quote from: tempest_gypsy on Jan 29, 2012, 12:48 pm
Anyone mind if  try to make the S### Stage Managers Say video? I've been wanting to try out my web cam for a while.

I was going to suggest the same thing myself....
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #20 on: Jan 29, 2012, 03:46 pm »
Quote from: tempest_gypsy on Jan 29, 2012, 12:48 pm
Anyone mind if  try to make the S### Stage Managers Say video? I've been wanting to try out my web cam for a while.

Do it!
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #21 on: Jan 29, 2012, 04:27 pm »
Maybe we can make it a SMNetwork project? I'm sure a lot of us have webcams and could do a few lines each...although that means someone will have to edit them together.

Some of my favorites:

"Please don't leave your half eaten ricola on the walls backstage"

"Here. Take my pencil."

And a few of my catchphrases that my last cast were so helpful to point out that I say constantly:

"It's on the callboard. Does no one read the callboard?!"

"I'm not your mother."

"That...that is an excellent question" (For all those things cast members ask you and you can't quite give a diplomatic answer)

"If you're late for places one more time, I will start without you." (Actually happened, twice.)
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #22 on: Jan 29, 2012, 04:51 pm »
Quote from: MatthewShiner on Jan 29, 2012, 01:00 pm
Quote from: tempest_gypsy on Jan 29, 2012, 12:48 pm
"Don't lick the props."

Don't lick the actors . . . I HAVE GIVEN THAT NOTE.

I have given BOTH of those notes... two different actors, though.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #23 on: Jan 29, 2012, 05:23 pm »
Quote from: NomieRae on Jan 29, 2012, 04:27 pm
Maybe we can make it a SMNetwork project? I'm sure a lot of us have webcams and could do a few lines each...although that means someone will have to edit them together.

I'm happy to do the editing if everyone likes the idea.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #24 on: Jan 29, 2012, 07:58 pm »
Great project!


Another to contribute:

"That's a cue line. Don't drop it."
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #25 on: Jan 29, 2012, 08:42 pm »
I know I would love to help with the project if we end up doing it as a site editing or contributing lines :)
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #26 on: Jan 29, 2012, 09:59 pm »
"If you are not onstage acting in a scene, you should not be eating the props."

...said in reference to a bag of cheese curls.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #27 on: Jan 30, 2012, 07:13 am »
"If I find a fork anywhere on stage, just remember I have access to the tool room."

--In reference to a game actors at my school like to play, "forks"

"This is Andrew. He makes the lights do pretty things"

--To a small child who once asked me what was a lighting designer.
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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #28 on: Jan 30, 2012, 07:27 am »
Quote from: NomieRae on Jan 29, 2012, 04:27 pm
"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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Re: Things Stage Managers Say
« Reply #29 on: Jan 30, 2012, 08:50 am »
"I don't think that can of Diet Coke on the table was available in Germany in the 19th century."

"Two questions: 1) Why did you have your cell phone on you during the scene shift and 2) Why did you leave it onstage? Here's hoping you turned the ringer off."

"Nothing caught on fire. I say that was a good day."

"Can we do this scene without the singers on roller skates?"

"Can you make sure you wear underwear for your fittings?"
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