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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Calling attention

« on: Oct 28, 2007, 07:02 pm »

Ok, so I could use a little bit of help.  I feel like for my experience I'm a good stage manager in most areas, but my weakest characteristic is that I'm naturally on the shy and quiet side.  I've noticed that I've gotten a lot more comfortable addressing a large cast with every new show, which is good.  However, I'm about to start working with what will probably be the largest cast yet, and even the director needs to call that many people's attention a few times to get everyone listening (this is high school theatre, by the way, which probably adds to it since students tend to be more prone to talking excitably over each other anyway).  I was wondering if any of you used any other method of getting the attention of a large cast besides just raising your voice?
(By the way, I'm not sure exactly how many people since we haven't started yet, but probably around 50 or so)