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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / birthday cakes

« on: Jan 27, 2005, 05:24 pm »

I like the idea of baby-ing casts, and making birthdays extra special, but it's free if you sing the birthday song, and most people really just want things to be acknowledged.  If you're buying cakes for this run, then you set a precedent and it will become an expectation for all other runs.  Also, how many birthdays were there and did you buy cakes or bake them?  (Cake mix goes on sale for $2.00 a box at Safeway....)  You can also establish a new tradition of "It's your birthday, bring your favorite treat to share with everyone."

thank you for your response. I like the idea of bringing your own favorite treat to share.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / MORALE: Birthday cakes

« on: Jan 23, 2005, 09:19 pm »

Having just spent over $100 of my own money on birthday cakes for actors birthdays that fell during the production, I was wondering if anyone has any clever ways of dealing with this issue. I have been told it's the stage managers responsibility to provide cakes but management doesn't pay for this expense.