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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / PEOPLE: How to (know-it-alls and significant others)
« on: Mar 12, 2007, 03:36 pm »
I am about to go into tech week on a show, so I probably should have asked these questions a while ago, but several of these issues just came to a head.
We have a cast diva - that's not my problem. I know how to deal with Divas.
We have a cast "know-it-all" He has a Master's Degree in Theatre, and he's been a director for several years, and he works at a theatre school, and he's completely disrespectful to, and disregards the stage-manager. What do I do?
We recently added a person as an Extra who has a walk on, no-lines role; the problem, he's my committed life partner - and has a history of not separating professionalism from personal in what he considers "Non professional environments." Should I tell my ASM that she is in charge of him, or should I treat him like any other cast member?
Here is my concern - some of the things that he says to me, and sometimes the ways that he treats me LOOKS very disrespectful from the outside. *I* know that he's joking around - but others might not know that. Couple that with the principals who are not giving me the respect that they should, I am afraid that the rest of the extras will start misbehaving, and I want to prevent that. Any ideas?
We have a cast diva - that's not my problem. I know how to deal with Divas.
We have a cast "know-it-all" He has a Master's Degree in Theatre, and he's been a director for several years, and he works at a theatre school, and he's completely disrespectful to, and disregards the stage-manager. What do I do?
We recently added a person as an Extra who has a walk on, no-lines role; the problem, he's my committed life partner - and has a history of not separating professionalism from personal in what he considers "Non professional environments." Should I tell my ASM that she is in charge of him, or should I treat him like any other cast member?
Here is my concern - some of the things that he says to me, and sometimes the ways that he treats me LOOKS very disrespectful from the outside. *I* know that he's joking around - but others might not know that. Couple that with the principals who are not giving me the respect that they should, I am afraid that the rest of the extras will start misbehaving, and I want to prevent that. Any ideas?