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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Blending a libretto with a score

« on: Feb 17, 2009, 11:17 am »

Hi everyone, I have a question:

I am PSMing an off-off Broadway revue and the lighting designer and I decided to use the libretto; so I did all of my blocking notes and set notes up in it for the past few weeks.  Now we come close to tech, he has decided to use the music.  My question: how should I go about "blending" this together?  When I am calling should I have the cues on music and blocking on libretto?  Do I need blocking in the run? I think so.... but I don't know.  I just feel at a total loss with this.  Should I have the music with cues and after it have a page of the libretto with blocking?

Any input and advice is super appreciated.  Thanks so much!

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Tech

« on: Jan 29, 2009, 11:52 am »

Hey everyone, I have been ASMing around NYC for about 3 years now and I am doing my first show as PSM.  Since I have ASMed so much, during tech I am always busy doing my own things and have not actually been next to the stage manager when the lighting designer is explaining where to call from.  How is this process? When we go in for tech, I just sit beside him and as he programs tells me where I write it down?