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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Calling Lines After Last Day to Call

« on: Apr 30, 2007, 02:26 am »

Durring tech i feel it is compleatly appropriate for an actor to call for line we (the tech depatment) are tossing a ton of stuff at them and aking them to skip and move around in the text....i agree tech is difficult on the actors...now a day or two prior to tech and the no calling for line in in place you wait as long as it takes..... might seem harshh but as BallettPSM said they have had 4-6 weeks to work on this and they are not dealing with tech stuff....then once we get out of tech then the rules apply again save a serious prople on stage.....just my two cents....i hope all are doing well in there projects i'm in the middel of tech right now we have frist dress Monday hopefull it will go as smooth as tech has already gone (fingers crossed)

Cheers
Will

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Weapons on Stage - Saftey and Legality

« on: Apr 11, 2007, 04:16 am »

It seems fairly clear you said your law enforcement said "no" correct? Then the answer is no! This is now up to the AD, Producers and Director to find a compromise they have thier legal answer. Remember to document everything.....you dont want it coming back to misinformation on your part....

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: YAle Short Hand

« on: Mar 30, 2007, 02:24 am »

After many years of SMing I realize that we all do make up our ouwn blocking notaion...my director mentioned this and I figured IF there was something out there I would like to see what it is so that I could possibly steal somethings from it but now I think we have collectivly decided that it does not exist and am moving on...thank you all for your input I will go back to my stealing shinnanigainz and make soemthing up hahah  I hope you are all doing well on your respective projects 

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: YAle Short Hand

« on: Mar 25, 2007, 04:57 am »

Maybe shorthand is the worng term....the director says its a type of SM blocking notes called Yale Style???

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / PROMPT BOOK: YAle Short Hand

« on: Mar 25, 2007, 01:48 am »

Hello Everyone,

This is Will I am a SM in Sunny San Diego Cali. This will be my first post how ever this site has provided me with vast amount's of information. It is great to have a place we SM's can come to gether to help each other out. Ok enough yaky yak I am about to start a new show on Tuesday ad the directors uses the Yale form of shorthand. I have heard of this method however I can not find any information on it via the web. Does any one know of a site or have a doc with the symbols? It would be greatly appreciated.....thanks