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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Last minute prop!?!?

« on: Apr 15, 2008, 02:59 pm »

Cheers for the suggestions!

Ended up doing similar to Here2serv said by deflating the ball, slicing a hole, insterting the stick into the ball and then we filled the ball with expanding foam to give it back the ball shape. Its not completely sherical anymore but its used in a silloutte so it's fine!

Cheers,

Adam

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Last minute prop!?!?

« on: Apr 12, 2008, 02:28 pm »

Hey everyone,

Have just been gievn a last minute prop needed for a show; a basketball which needs to be attatched to a stick/cane of some description...

Am a bit lost on how I could do this!

Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions or ideas?

Thanks a lot,

Adam

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Peter Pan

« on: Mar 17, 2008, 12:33 pm »

Hey,

I did Peter Pan last December and we used Foy for it, cost about £1500 in total for a two week hire with three fly lines.

Were great people, easy to install and they trained us up properly about how to do it.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Caling the show...

« on: Feb 11, 2008, 06:07 pm »

Obviously 'traditionally' a show is generally called from stage left. Has anyone ever called from FOH?

I've done a few shows now where I have called them from FOH (in a theatre venue) and overall I find it much easier to call from this position...

Just wondering if I'm the only one...

EDIT: Merged this and the entire thread after it with the older thread from April of '07. --PSMK

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Employment / University/drama school Vs. real world experience

« on: Oct 17, 2007, 03:58 pm »

As a student intending to go into the industry next year, I've thougt hard and long about wheather I should go to uni/drama school to study stage management, or just go straight into work, avoid a £50,000 debt and get 3 years experiance under my belt.

For those of you who who sit and read CVs debating who to hire, which in your opinion is better? A degree in stage management, or SM experiance?
Would be nice to know...
Cheers.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: High School Musical

« on: Aug 31, 2007, 11:00 am »

avkid: yeah exclusive UK rights for next year were the words that came from Disney 

But yeh, thanks a lot guys, I was beginning to get pretty nevous about it even though the whole process of the show has ony just really begun. Thanks!

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / High School Musical

« on: Aug 30, 2007, 05:33 pm »

So the production company that I currently work for alongside doing my tech theatre college course has just got exclusive rights from Disney to put on High School Musical, lucky me; I've been given DSM. I've DSM'd before many a time, but all on smaller scale productions - this one should be in excess of £25,000. Any general advice anyone can give on working on larger scale productions seeing as I'm still a student and have never experienced something like this before. Cheers.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / DSM Help

« on: Mar 07, 2007, 02:13 pm »

Hi everyone, I began a Technical Theatre BTec in September and have just been assigned to be the Deputy Stage Manager for a big scale musical in a professional theatre, I was wondering what I need to include in my DSM folder, obviously I need the script with all the blocking, cues etc. but what else do I need to include in the folder? Help would be much appreciated as I don't really know much about DSM as I prefer sound design, but I want to expand and be good at Stage Management too. Thanks in advance for any help.