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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!

« on: Mar 31, 2014, 01:39 pm »

If anyone has a copy of the Laramie Project I would really appreciate it!

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The Green Room / Re: Need help making a playlist

« on: May 14, 2012, 07:57 pm »

"I've got a big bag of crabs"

Made me laugh. Where the heck is this from? 

Heh.  One of those weird songs that an actor was listening to and then the techs heard it and now it's in the preshow mix.

Now have:
I'll Make a Man out of You.
I've got a big bag of crabs
I put a spell on you (performed)
A little priest (performed)
Loathing (performed)

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The Green Room / Re: Need help making a playlist

« on: May 12, 2012, 11:39 pm »

Ehh. All the theatre kiddies that are coming to the party pretty much are good with any music.  I know that "I'll make a man out of you" from Mulan and "I've got a big bag of crabs" have to be in the mix somewhere so song that could possibly lead to or lead from those.... Which seems unlikely to me.

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The Green Room / Need help making a playlist

« on: May 11, 2012, 07:35 pm »

The Tech Director (Also the person that hooked me on theatre and the tech theatre teacher) at my school is leaving.  We always have a end of the year party to just wrap up and celebrate after a year of good shows.  This year I've been asked to make a playlist for the party.

I have no clue what I should put in.  I want a mix of show tunes and good bands... but I've never been known for having good taste in music.

Any suggestions?

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!

« on: May 05, 2012, 07:01 pm »

I see Into the Woods has been requested several times here, if someone has it please message/email me.

Thanks,
Penguin
(Burton)

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Tools of the Trade / Re: How to best use Dropbox?

« on: Apr 28, 2012, 07:02 pm »

Dropbox is spectacular, but another tool you might want to look into is Evernote. It's also free, but it has editing and search tools built into it so you don't necessarily need to go over to word/excel/whatever. You can share notebooks with other team members, and if you use the mobile version you can record audio notes directly with it or take snapshots right into it. If you really got into it, they sell scanners for about $100 that will scan directly into evernote and do on-the-fly ocr - might be a licensing nightmare to do that with scripts, but with all your other paperwork it might be amazing.

On that note, of Evernote, you might also want to think of using Google Docs.  We have a GMail account for our school's Theatre Dept. and we use the Docs portion quite a lot and from the issues listed about Dropbox, I would say Google Docs works a lot better.
Just something to consider.

I use Google Docs for a lot of things with my shows and it works very well for me, but Google Docs just updated to Google Drive which is supposed to compete with dropbox and icloud etc.  Right now I am in the middle of rehearsals for a show, and I am being paranoid about not accidentally updating and breaking links.  Has anyone gone through the update process yet?  Do you know how links are being handled?  Are there any other things to watch out for with the update?  Sorry for kind of taking this off topic but I think this is enough in the vein of the thread to not need a new thread.

I'ms assuming when you say links you mean links to the individual files or 'collections'? As far as I'm seeing all of my files are still connected to their old links.

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The Green Room / Re: SMNetwork Presents: The Internship Survey!

« on: Apr 28, 2012, 06:31 pm »

Whenever I search, it just resets to Alabama, be it the normal search or the advanced search option.

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Employment / Re: Career Goals

« on: Apr 28, 2012, 02:54 pm »

I have a 1 and 5 year goal.

1- To get accepted into Ball State's Production- Stage management program.
5- To have completed my SM degree from Ball State and be in the job market, hopefully have a job.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Looking for testers for a new iPhone SM app

« on: Apr 28, 2012, 02:52 pm »

Any chance of an Android version coming soon?  My school is investing in Android-OS tablets next year, and I have a smartphone/tablet phone that also runs Android. 

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Tools of the Trade / Re: How to best use Dropbox?

« on: Apr 28, 2012, 02:49 pm »

Dropbox is spectacular, but another tool you might want to look into is Evernote. It's also free, but it has editing and search tools built into it so you don't necessarily need to go over to word/excel/whatever. You can share notebooks with other team members, and if you use the mobile version you can record audio notes directly with it or take snapshots right into it. If you really got into it, they sell scanners for about $100 that will scan directly into evernote and do on-the-fly ocr - might be a licensing nightmare to do that with scripts, but with all your other paperwork it might be amazing.

On that note, of Evernote, you might also want to think of using Google Docs.  We have a GMail account for our school's Theatre Dept. and we use the Docs portion quite a lot and from the issues listed about Dropbox, I would say Google Docs works a lot better.
Just something to consider.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Being friends with the SM

« on: Apr 25, 2012, 08:27 am »

I'm currently a Junior, and usually the solo SM at my school.  Unfortunately that made it hard to share the "good cop, bad cop" routine with someone else.  Which forced me to just be strictly professional at rehearsal.  I think that if you are co-SMing then it's possible to be a little loose, but otherwise it seems hard to maintain the respect from the actors that's required to put on a good production (Especially when they're all your peers).

I think it all depends on if your actors will understand the difference between you being their friend, and you being in charge of them.