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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Noises Off

« on: Apr 10, 2014, 02:14 pm »

Thank you everyone for your input. I have since spoken to the set designer as well as the set builder. With your valuable insights and experience I feel confident that I can persuade the director to look for another play.

Now that I have found this site I will not only recommend it to my theatre family but I will  be a regular. Thank you again...
so much appreciated. 

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Noises Off

« on: Apr 09, 2014, 06:43 pm »

I am a producer and and I am concerned that the director will insist on doing Noises Off on two stages or one level without consideration of stage management.  He has left it in the hands of the set builder to solve his problem and I am looking for a reasonable solution to the problem. Either way it appears that he cannot do this show in its present venue unless I can see a set desing that would work.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Noises Off

« on: Apr 09, 2014, 03:08 pm »

All of the designs I have seen show a two level  stage that rotates and I am not willing to lose the integrity of the play not to mention giving our SM a coronary because the director is dying to do this play in a ballroom. Lend Me a Tenor has been done three times in the last ten years here and we just finished Moon Over Buffalo so I was looking for another idea.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / PLAYS: Noises Off

« on: Apr 09, 2014, 01:08 pm »

I am wondering if any one knows if Noises Off can be performed on one level rather than the two stories. We do dinner theatre in a ballroom so stage height is an issue.


Edited to add topic tag. - Maribeth

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Introductions / Hello, I 'm a newbie

« on: Apr 09, 2014, 12:29 pm »

I have been involved in community theatre for 25 years and have worked on and off the stage in every capacity. I am presently producing dinner theatre for a company in our city. One of the things I love about community theatre is the unpredictability of events as the show progresses.The scariest challenge I was faced with happened most recently when our sound tech quit dress rehearsal night. After a ten minute crash course in running the sound board I ran through the cues without a hitch. Unfortunately openeing night was a disaster. Luckily it was a comedy and the audience had a good laugh. I took a lot of good natured ribbing and vowed never to run the sound board again. Note to self...have a back up sound tech.