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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Budget?!
« on: Dec 11, 2007, 02:09 am »
If you are using wireless microphones don't forget the wallet draining bane of my existence.
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Tools of the Trade / Re: What Type Of Drill Is Best?
« on: Dec 01, 2007, 06:13 pm »Also, I agree that a corded drill is importantThere are some tasks that are darn near impossible to do with a cordless drill.
There is just something comforting about having a 15 amp high RPM corded power drill in the shop, should the need arise.
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Tools of the Trade / Re: What Type Of Drill Is Best?
« on: Nov 30, 2007, 10:46 am »Nothing says "I love you" like powertoolsQuite true.
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The Hardline / Re: Crediting in Programs
« on: Nov 30, 2007, 01:28 am »
If I have been hired as an outside contractor I prefer not to be listed in a program and create a false association.
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Tools of the Trade / Re: What Type Of Drill Is Best?
« on: Nov 28, 2007, 11:27 pm »
Makita.
Mine is over 25 years old(older than I) and still going strong on the original batteries.
Which confuses the heck out of me.
Mine is over 25 years old(older than I) and still going strong on the original batteries.
Which confuses the heck out of me.
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Absences
« on: Nov 28, 2007, 02:22 pm »
Motion carried, get out whilst you still can.
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction”
-William Osler
“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction”
-William Osler
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Injured during tech?
« on: Nov 28, 2007, 02:18 pm »
Ohhh..I forgot to share.
Two staples clean through my right ring finger just to the side of the nail.
I wrapped it up and got on with life.
That part of my finger is still a bit numb to pain.
Staple guns are not toys!
Two staples clean through my right ring finger just to the side of the nail.
I wrapped it up and got on with life.
That part of my finger is still a bit numb to pain.
Staple guns are not toys!
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Employment / Re: Going to NYC?
« on: Nov 28, 2007, 02:16 pm »I always find it creepy to be in cities where you can't get anything to eat after 9:00 pm and the bars close down before 4:00 a.m....so to each their own.Yeah, it is annoying not be in a place that does at least not have a good all night diner.
Heck, we used to close the bar at 1:30 AM.
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Employment / Re: Going to NYC?
« on: Nov 25, 2007, 12:54 am »Thanks to everyone for their input! I suppose the desire to go to NYC is just one of those crazy young people things.You should go, for a like a week, see the city in detail not just the touristy nonsense.
Spending a while just walking around and talk to some people about life there.
Personally,I find it creepy to be at the corner of Broadway and 49th Street at 9:30 P.M. in October in what appears to be broad daylight.
When you look up you see all the sodium lights that create an artificial day.
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Stage Management: Other / Re: Running lights from front of house?
« on: Nov 25, 2007, 12:37 am »I've run lights/sound for kids' shows from the house. Kids right in front of you twist around in their chairs and ask you all sorts of questions. You tell them all about being an SM/board op, and they tell you all about being a first grader. Great learning experience, when all they usually ever see are the actors.Now see that's cool.
When they get older they just want to know if you know the band and get them passes and other such nonsense.
(oh whoops, slipped into concert world again)
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Stage Management: Other / Re: Wrangling the Childrens Chorus
« on: Nov 25, 2007, 12:35 am »Definitely ask them to bring something QUIET to do...homework, quiet games, knittingLet's emphasize the activities that don't involve sharp objects.
You get together a set of knitting needles and a set of 10 year old boys, things can get ugly quick.
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Onstage Hangings
« on: Nov 22, 2007, 05:41 pm »
Get a dummy with a wig and costume and hang it behind a sheer scrim with lighting that shadows but doesn't reveal anything critical.
The audience will be none the wiser, and nobody will be dead either!!
The audience will be none the wiser, and nobody will be dead either!!
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Employment / Re: Going to NYC?
« on: Nov 22, 2007, 05:37 pm »
NYC is not the best idea for time being.
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Preshow (turn off your cellphone) announcements
« on: Nov 17, 2007, 10:46 pm »My least favorite is the horrible way it is done at the Dragon Lady's theatre here in DC. It involves the house staff circulating through the house demonstrating how to turn it off.Eww...That sounds almost insulting.
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Employment / Re: Advice on my resume
« on: Nov 15, 2007, 03:56 pm »
That looks cleaner and generally easier to understand.
You need to be careful with job titles, a theatre manager and a stage manager are not the same thing.
Revised Copy 2 attached
You need to be careful with job titles, a theatre manager and a stage manager are not the same thing.
Revised Copy 2 attached