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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: First Tech related anything

« on: Oct 23, 2009, 11:01 am »

thanks so much
well we're two weeks in and we've hardly done any blocking and our director is consistently late because of other obligations, rehearsal is becoming very frustrating to the actors and the A.D, when he has a chance to work scenes, after lots of hype and good ideas, doesn't do anything. It looks like a cold-read right now.

I think i've been doing a good job though, i'm keeping up with techies, making a lot of decisions on things, keeping up with the scheduel, taking down blocking and making sure what the director wants done gets done. I'm just getting a bit scared, because this is a farce, and when a farce doesn't have direction, it turns into a nightmare

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Student SM Challenge #8: Running Late

« on: Oct 10, 2009, 12:32 pm »

well, i guess if its an emergency i would call my director, but other than that, if i just know i'm going to be running late, for this show, i'd call the A.D. who is a friend of mine and ask him to show up early and kinda take over.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / First Tech related anything

« on: Oct 10, 2009, 12:29 pm »

Hi everybody, first off i'd like to say im new to this forum and ive read a few topics here and was just looking for a bit of advice

Second off, here's my story. I have been involved in my HS theatre since my sophomore year. Since then i have consistantly been cast in every production, and my junior year i started to get leads, including musical and uil. Its my senior year and i just finished a straight show as a lead. I had always gone into tech interviews, but they never considered me for anything. For this show, i let the director know i was interested in tech over acting, because id like one tech position before i graduate and (being a singer) i don't want it for musical. So I went into Stage Manager/Assistant Director Interviews, and tech interviews. I Somehow ended up being stage manager, no ASM, so i'll probably be backstage. Its not like i have absolutely no tech experience, but ive never had a specific title, ive dabbled in just about everything, but this is kind of overwhelming.

I've put together my spreadsheet for conflicts roll call, and i have my prompt book ready, with a design of the set after every page and ive been starting to take down the characters' blocking. I'm not sure if i have to take down light cues yet, because i think the A.D. will be calling the show.

Should i be doing anything else? and i need some advice about working with a director who's kind of difficult (and a bit immature)