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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: theatre romance
« on: Jul 30, 2007, 03:49 pm »
Part of the problem is that rehearsals are pretty much the only place most of us CAN meet people, since it eats up our free time.
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Employment / Re: Getting Jobs & Leaving Jobs
« on: Jul 30, 2007, 10:17 am »
Steal office supplies.
Give them plenty of notice, in writing, but deliver it by hand and explain, and thank them for the 7 years.
They will probably be happy for you.....
Give them plenty of notice, in writing, but deliver it by hand and explain, and thank them for the 7 years.
They will probably be happy for you.....
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Bows
« on: Jul 18, 2007, 04:16 pm »
if you want applause, you're in the wrong job
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College and Graduate Studies / Re: Wayne State University???
« on: Jul 03, 2007, 01:47 pm »
I was considering going to Wayne State a few years back. I spoke with the lady who ran the SM area at the time and it sounded like a great program. All you do is theatre. And they pay you.
The SMs all meet in the morning and vent. And they ASM each other's shows too. I think they are rehearsing one while performing another. They do all classical plays.
Posted on: July 04, 2007, 12:46:23 PM
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,893.0/
The SMs all meet in the morning and vent. And they ASM each other's shows too. I think they are rehearsing one while performing another. They do all classical plays.
Posted on: July 04, 2007, 12:46:23 PM
http://smnetwork.org/forum/index.php/topic,893.0/
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: SMing a Shakespeare
« on: Jun 13, 2007, 04:03 pm »
make sure you're all working off the same version / edition
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Who Runs the Tech?
« on: May 03, 2007, 03:47 pm »
I've found that in Shakespeare all of the cues revolve around scene transitions - actors entrering and exiting - and the light cues and sound cues that accompany it. in that case, for timing purposes, a Q2Q with actors is invaluable.
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Who Runs the Tech?
« on: Apr 30, 2007, 02:19 pm »
What we need / I want to do in Tech largely depends on the needs of the show. if it is a musical with lots of scene changes, wagons, fly cues, and so on, we'll do a dry tech w/o actors until we get it down, then if we NEED it , go Q2Q with actrons. my preference is to just RUN the show, no matter what the show, because it is better practice for me and the actors ... but it is not always the best solution
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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: How do I audition for SM at a college?
« on: Apr 26, 2007, 04:37 pm »I understand that an infinite number of monkeys, given an infinite number of headsets and an infinitely long technical rehearsal, will eventually call all the cues for all the works of Shakespeare.
LOL LOL LOL
brilliant
and true
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: YAle Short Hand
« on: Apr 20, 2007, 08:30 am »
I'm not sure I understand why the Director cares at all how the blocking is written down so long as it is written down and can easily be read back to the director or actor.
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Tools of the Trade / Re: Do you prefer Word or Excel?
« on: Apr 13, 2007, 03:11 pm »I think I've said this before, but the reason I use word has nothing to do with my preferences and everything to do with the personnel at the theater. Most of the time, when I am out in a regional space, I am luck if they have dial-up, let alone excel, and a percentage of the office isn't extremely computer facile. My primary consideration is that most of the departments and the house can open Word when they can't open much else
this is me too
i keep checklists and such that only I use on my laptop in Excel, but otherwise everything is in Word because more people can use it more easily
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Tools of the Trade / Re: Google Groups?
« on: Apr 09, 2007, 10:17 am »
does everyone have to create a google or gmail account to use it?
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Dressing For The Part?
« on: Apr 06, 2007, 02:36 pm »Quote
That and if the only clothes you ever wear are black, making decisions in the morning is easy.
its like you are watching me get dressed every morning with your p-sychic powers!
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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Keeping it Straight with BIG CASTS
« on: Mar 23, 2007, 11:03 am »
Just call everyone "Boo."
I used audition photos to keep kids straight for a children's musical. cheat sheet for the first week.
i just spread them out on my tech table
I used audition photos to keep kids straight for a children's musical. cheat sheet for the first week.
i just spread them out on my tech table
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College and Graduate Studies / Re: NC School of the Arts
« on: Mar 16, 2007, 12:32 pm »
I don't know anything about their theatre program.
HOWEVER.
When I was in high school I took a film class. We toured on a field trip the NCSA film department. The tour was given by the Asst Dean. One of our students was mouthy and the Asst Dean and he got into a physical altercation, and the mouthy student was pinned up against a wall with his air cut off.
I didn't like the mouthy student, so I thought this was great. The film dept's attitude was to treat students like they are already working, so they are very hard on them, cut them no slack, and tolerate no grief.
The police were called. I don't know if charges were pressed.
HOWEVER.
When I was in high school I took a film class. We toured on a field trip the NCSA film department. The tour was given by the Asst Dean. One of our students was mouthy and the Asst Dean and he got into a physical altercation, and the mouthy student was pinned up against a wall with his air cut off.
I didn't like the mouthy student, so I thought this was great. The film dept's attitude was to treat students like they are already working, so they are very hard on them, cut them no slack, and tolerate no grief.
The police were called. I don't know if charges were pressed.