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chickangel486:
I am a Stage Manger at Wayne State University and I am doing the last Bonstelle show of the year. I have an outside Director from New York who actually graduated from the undergraduate department here at WSU in 1982.
With my weekly, there is a lot of detail and I'm not sure if it's too long. It is two pages but I am afraid to make it smaller or breaking it down too small, would be confusing. Normally, weeklies are one page and I just don't want to be different but maybe different is okay?

Please let me know what you think!

Thanks!

Scott (formerly Digga):
I think you'd be better off making it smaller but that's just me.  I don't think they have to be one 1 page but I also don't think you need the title and heading to be so large.  You could also expand your margins to the sides making it fit better.  And personally, I prefer 11pt Font for things like that to make it fit better.  And I also use actor's real names (generally First initial and then the Last name) as opposed to character names but that could be from experience with Chorus musicals where actors don't have a character name.  That way you're not bouncing back and forth between Character names and Actor names.

Nbayard:
My weeklys were long like that too, but only because the director wanted multiple rehearsals so they ended up being 2 soemtiems 3 pages.  But it was smaller font.    But I agree that the heading doesn't need to be so big. 

MarcieA:
I agree with the formatting suggestions, but I also think that your schedules need to be as long as they need to be. I try to keep my schedules to one page, but sometimes that's not an option for whatever reason: too large a cast, too much material covered, etc.

Never heard them called weeklies before.  :)

Maybe it's the format that needs to change, not the information you're including?

I've attached one of my 'weeklies' below, just a working copy and not the final distributed version, but not much is different. This was for 8 10-minute musicals featuring 10 actors, so a huge scheduling mess. I used to do this in Word, but recently started using Google Docs as well as emailing and printing, and Excel uploads much better, so I'm trying to make the switch.

johnmurdock:
Yes I agree.. I make mine as long as needed.

Here is the format I am using currently on THE FULL MONTY.

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