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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: May 01, 2011, 11:03 am »

Winners for April are:

1. rvhead (253 points, 4 wins)
2. loebtmc (249 points, 3 wins)
3. blantonrk (243 points, 5 wins)
4. Lizzie (225 points, 7 wins)
5. scott (224 points, 4 wins)
6. ruthny (210 points, 3 wins)
7. ScooterSM (204 points, 0 wins)
8. stagebear (167 points, 1 wins)
9. yomanda (153 points, 0 wins)
10. lsears (132 points, 1 wins)

lsears will pick categories for May.  Look for a PM with categories to choose from!
Post Merge: May 01, 2011, 05:39 pmAnd the categories are:

Sun - General Knowledge 3
Mon - Geography 2
Tues - World General 1
Wed - Theater
Thurs - Mixed Bag
Fri - Animals
Sat - Literature 2


Good luck all!!

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The Green Room / Re: The Onion - White House to Hold Second Auditions This Week For "Guys and Dolls"

« on: Apr 07, 2011, 11:15 am »

This is great!!!  I wonder if they need an SM??? 

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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: Apr 04, 2011, 06:24 pm »

And the winners for March are:

1. loebtmc (260 points, 1 wins)
2. rvhead (256 points, 4 wins)
3. blantonrk (244 points, 5 wins)
4. ruthny (243 points, 5 wins)
5. stagebear (235 points, 4 wins)
6. ScooterSM (219 points, 2 wins)
7. SMLois (212 points, 0 wins)
8. Lizzie (208 points, 2 wins)
9. scott (179 points, 1 wins)
10. lsears (175 points, 3 wins)

loebtmc will pick categories for April.  I will send you a PM with categories to choose from...
Post Merge: Apr 05, 2011, 12:45 pmAnd the categories for April are:

Sun  - general knowledge 3
Mon - history 3
Tues - hobbies
Wed - mixed bag
Thurs - movies 3
Fri - science & tech 3
Sat - theatre

Good luck all!

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Tools of the Trade / Re: FX: Smoking Hair

« on: Mar 25, 2011, 12:24 pm »

Smoke drops are great, but they are HIGHLY toxic, so I would recommend extreme caution using on someone's body...

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Glow-in-the-dark Glow tape

« on: Mar 09, 2011, 11:19 am »

We have been using it this season, and have been overall pretty happy with it.  It doesn't glow as strongly as the old version, but is sufficiently bright enough to see in blackouts, etc.  It sticks much better than traditional glow tape (although not as well as gaff), but can be covered with clear marley tape on the floor if the glow is in small pieces (particularly when used for dance).  It is much faster to put down than the paper backed glow and can be torn instead of having to be cut with scissors.

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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: Mar 04, 2011, 03:33 pm »

And the winners for February are:

1. Lizzie (299 points, 7 wins)
2. loebtmc (269 points, 0 wins)
3. ruthny (267 points, 5 wins)
4. blantonrk (241 points, 6 wins)
5. ScooterSM (233 points, 1 wins)
6. rvhead (221 points, 3 wins)
7. stagebear (217 points, 2 wins)
8. scott (214 points, 2 wins)
9. babens (189 points, 0 wins)
10. SMLois (164 points, 0 wins)


rvhead will pick categories for March.  I will send you a PM with options to pick from!

26 people played this month.  Can we make it to 30 for March?
Post Merge: Mar 06, 2011, 10:35 amAnd the categories for March are:

Mon - celebrities 2
Tues - general knowledge 4
Wed - literature 1-2
Thurs - music 3
Fri - people 1-2
Sat - religion 2
Sun - theatre

Enjoy!

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: DCTC Internship. Thoughts?

« on: Mar 03, 2011, 11:46 pm »

I learned more at DCTC in the 4 months I was an intern (and the following 7 years that I worked there) than I did in 4 years of college.  It was a really great place to work.  The hours can be kind of crazy, but their SM team is wonderful to work with, and the facility is one of the best in the country (shops, rehearsal spaces and offices all in the same building, which is across the street from the theatres.  Feel free to PM me if you have specific questions.

Also, Denver is awesome...  Mountains, good weather, no bugs...  You can't beat it!  (can you tell that I miss it after the east coast winter this year??!)

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Employment / Re: Pictures

« on: Mar 01, 2011, 05:58 pm »

Although the request for a SM photo with an application is an odd one, if you do choose to send a photo it should be a professional looking shot and not just a snapshot.   (The question of whether they should or shouldn't ask for it is separate issue).
Although employers should not be judging you on your gender, age, race, etc. that may be apparent in your photo, they can judge based on the quality of the materials you send them, and a picture with someone obviously cropped out, or with a party in the background or something similar doesn't present a professional image.  It would be like sending someone a resume with hand written notes.  It is a good way to just have your stuff tossed instead of read.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Internships? Pay or credit?

« on: Feb 24, 2011, 04:04 pm »

Matthew - thank you for your thoughtful reply.  These are many of the same discussions that we we have had about starting an intern program, and whether the purpose is to fill in labor or to actually provide an educational experience for someone.  Is it ok with you if I pass your comment on to our team?

Thanks!

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Internships? Pay or credit?

« on: Feb 23, 2011, 04:36 pm »

Just to clarify, it would be a $500 stipend for the run of the show (~7 weeks work).  $500 a week would be awesome, but is well beyond any budget we would have.

Thank you all for your input.  Would it change your responses at all if there were time in the schedule that someone could have another job?  (ie only day rehearsals or only evenings?)

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Internships? Pay or credit?

« on: Feb 17, 2011, 04:55 pm »

We are investigating starting an internship program at our company, and are having some disagreements about what we should offer as compensation.  We would be able to offer college credit, but would like to add some other incentives other than the experience working with a professional company on a variety of shows.
Some guidelines are professional company connected to a university, large scale musicals and operas.  Would serve as primary SM in rehearsals and ASM in tech and performance.  Typical schedule is 5 weeks rehearsal, 1 week tech, 1 week performance.  There would not be housing.

 Any input or opinions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: Feb 12, 2011, 12:58 pm »

Man, I should not do trivia at 7am before I leave for tech!  Ouch!!

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The Green Room / Re: Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: Feb 01, 2011, 02:27 pm »

The winners for January are:

1. ruthny (306 points, 11 wins)
2. Lizzie (292 points, 5 wins)
3. rvhead (291 points, 1 wins)
4. loebtmc (279 points, 3 wins)
5. scott (275 points, 1 wins)
6. blantonrk (239 points, 2 wins)
7. yomanda (224 points, 0 wins)
8. stagebear (223 points, 2 wins)
9. ScooterSM (202 points, 4 wins)
10. vsm (157 points, 0 wins)


VSM will pick categories for February.  Look for a PM with categories to choose from.  We also had the highest number of players for this month (26)!! Can we beat that for February?
Post Merge: Feb 01, 2011, 02:41 pmThanks VSM for getting back so quickly!!

The categories for February are:

Sun - Theatre
Mon - Science & Technology 3
Tues - Hobbies
Wed - Religion 2
Thurs - People 2
Fri - Music 1
Sat - Literature 2

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Finding Slip NoMor in the Boston Area

« on: Jan 05, 2011, 11:00 am »

You can try Backstage Hardware (617.330.1422) in the Seaport district.  I have also had pretty good success with using diet soda, which has a similar stickiness to regular, but doesn't have the sugar to attract ants, etc...

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The Green Room / Trivia Tournament III - 2.0.11

« on: Jan 02, 2011, 10:03 pm »

Since it is a whole new year, and the other thread was getting really long, here is a brand new 2011 trivia thread!!

If you're new to SMNet, here's the instructions for playing trivia:

To play, click here http://www.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=76555.

Please register over there with the same username there as you use here so you can be tracked in the standings.

To quote PSMKay -
"To register, you will need the tournament password.   Use the same password as you use for the SMNetwork resume browser.  The one that starts with the letter f.  The password is visible on the main page of smnetwork in the descriptive text of a forum that is visible only to registered, logged in members.  Please do not PM the password or post the password publicly.  The hints that have been given so far in this post should be more than sufficient for figuring it out.  The trivia tournament is TOUGH and figuring out the password is meant as a warm-up for you."

There's a different set of questions every day of the week.  Topics are chosen by a player in the top ten who hasn't picked topics in the past year.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________
Congrats to the 23 members who played during December!!  Here is the top 10.

1. rvhead (248 points, 3 wins)
2. loebtmc (241 points, 4 wins)
3. ruthny (234 points, 5 wins)
4. Lizzie (220 points, 5 wins)
5. scott (207 points, 2 wins)
6. MarcieA (196 points, 3 wins)
7. stagebear (186 points, 3 wins)
8. ScooterSM (163 points, 3 wins)
9. yomanda (145 points, 0 wins)
10. babens (143 points, 2 wins


Also congrats to yomanda, who will pick categories for January!!  I will PM you a list of categories to choose from.

Enjoy!!

**Moderators, please feel free to add this to the old thread if that is a better choice. Tx!**

10 pages means it's time for the padlock.  Old thread is locked, new thread is stickied. - PSMK
Post Merge: Jan 03, 2011, 03:30 pmAnd the categories for January are:

Sunday - people 2
Monday - animals
Tuesday - general knowledge 6
Wednesday - theatre
Thursday - mixed bag
Friday - movies 3
Saturday - history 2

Thanks yomanda, and enjoy all!!