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« on: Sep 28, 2008, 04:34 pm »
I like to have the tech schedule included when rehearsal schedule(s) are distributed. I prefer to have everything scheduled (paper tech--this is very important because if you go through the show on paper w/ director and designers, you will have a good idea of the entire flow of the production before tech rehearsals). If I've scheduled things on paper, I'm not trying to fit in a lot of stuff after the fact. If it's a complicated show, I like to incorporate a Q to Q without actors (here's where the artistic staff can work out some bugs, timings, etc.). If it's a multi-scene or complicated set show, I have a separate set change rehearsal (just for stage crew and designer and TD). Then it's on to the the Q to Q with actors. In this rehearsal, after a cue is executed, if all parties are OK with the way the cue happened, I find the next cue in the show, put my operators/crew on stand by and stop the actors. I then call the pick up line and we run the next cue. (Actor's love this as they don't stand around doing nothing for long peroids of time). If the cue did not go well, we run it again. If it's a problem that doesn't involve the actors, as some of the other SM's said, we'll come back to that area of the show either after the actors are released from rehearsal or schedule time before the next rehearsal to work on it.
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