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College and Graduate Studies / Re: Colleges with well-rounded theatre programs (Was: school.)

« on: Nov 07, 2007, 02:21 pm »

I didn't mean any harm.  I know there are schools that have these programs, but from what I know in my internship experience most (not all) undergrad theatre programs don't have any focus on stage managment.  Im sure there are some out there, but I have noticed that there are few that actually have a undergrad SM focused major.  Plus we teach equity rules in our classes and follow them (as close as possible do to the fact it is college) in our productions.

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College and Graduate Studies / Re: Colleges with well-rounded theatre programs (Was: school.)

« on: Nov 06, 2007, 07:36 pm »

I know it is out in the middle of no where (Muncie Indiana), but I go to Ball State University.  It has an undergraduate SM program, and because we have no grad students we get to SM at the undergraduate level.  You start off your freshmen year ASMing the mainstage shows and SMing the student directed stuff.  We have 2 black box theaters and a standard theater all to work in.  Plus its the only school I know where you get to call a huge musical with like 500 light cues 100 sound cues and use cue lights for fly cues all in undergrad level.

Here is the website if you interested. 
http://www.bsu.edu/theatre/

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: The Most Qs Ever

« on: Sep 25, 2007, 10:01 am »

I personally have not had a crazy amount of cues in any show, but my professor is doing "Wild party and has somthing like 800 light cues she said.

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The Hardline / Re: Question about British Equity

« on: Sep 17, 2007, 02:38 pm »

thanks

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The Hardline / Question about British Equity

« on: Sep 15, 2007, 01:34 pm »

I was just curious if anyone knew the break rules for the British Equity union.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Show suggestions (for HS)

« on: Jul 18, 2007, 09:03 pm »

"Honk!" is a great musical for high schools.  It's a lot of fun and tame enough that no parents will complain.  If you don't want to do a musical I would suggest something simple that the parents will enjoy.   

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Bows

« on: Jul 18, 2007, 09:00 pm »

What my professor told me is that the only time the stage manager gets any attention is if they do something wrong.  If you want applause then you should be on stage.  I love being backstage and my applause is knowing that I did my part to make the show great.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: calling cues

« on: Jul 17, 2007, 11:49 am »

I used to go to a community college before transferring schools, and there everyone lettered their sound cue's.  When I transferred schools now I can't do that because most shows have to many sound cues.  Also with the fly cues we have cue lights, and when I don't have that I just call deck cue and make sure that my ASM has a good shift plot of work off of.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Executing both light and sound cues?

« on: Jul 06, 2007, 01:02 am »

I have had to do this on a few shows.  Although I think it is easier to have a board op for both, it is a luxury that we don't always enjoy.  My suggestion is just put warnings before each cue in your script show you know when a cue is coming before hand.  This has always helped me a lot.

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Employment / First Aid/Fire Guard

« on: Jul 05, 2007, 02:14 pm »

I was just wondering peoples advice on this.  I am starting out SM'ing in NYC and I was told that It was a really good idea to get my First Aid/CPR cert, along with Fire Guard cert.  I was wondering if anyone thinks this is a good investment or not? The classes are really expensive but if it will help me get work I think it would be worth it.  Just curious what people think about this.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Sublet in NYC?

« on: Jun 25, 2007, 09:36 pm »

I am also doing the Midtown international theater Festival.  You could try a hostile in the city.  Or commute from somewhere cheap like Brooklyn.  Thats what I am doing.

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Tools of the Trade / Midtown Theater festival?

« on: Jun 14, 2007, 12:09 pm »

I just wanted to know anyones advice.  I am an ASM for a play in NYC for the Midtown Theater Festival.  It plays at the Jewel Box theater.  I was wanting to know if anyone has ever worked in this space before and had ideas for storing set pieces.  The SM, playwright, director, and myself have been wracking our brains trying to figure out where we are going to store the set pieces.  I just wanted to know if anyone had any ideas because at this point we are considering just using cubes for everything.

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Vista and Microsoft 2007

« on: Jun 14, 2007, 12:06 pm »

I recently switched to Vista and Office 2k7 because my school offers both for free.  Now I used to do computer work back before I wanted to SM.  I even got Microsoft certs and all that crap.  I have played around with every operating system from windows 95 to Mac OSx and even linux, and I can tell you once you get used to it Vista is awesome.  The biggest issue I have with 2k7 is I need to save everything as a 2k3 file so that people without 2k7 can open it.  But other then that I love it.

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Employment / Re: Too Old

« on: Jun 12, 2007, 08:49 pm »

I think ageism is wrong on all sides.  I am young (only 23) and working in NYC.  I sent a resume and cover letter to a dinner theater and got a phone interview.  The man loved my resume ( I don't put dates to try to hide my age).  This tactic was a suggestion from a professor.  The phone interview was going great until the man said "you sound young how old are you".  When I told him it was all downhill from there.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Does this happen alot

« on: Jun 11, 2007, 04:26 pm »

I am still kinda new to the professional SM world.  I recently was hired as a PSM for a show and I had a phone interview.  Things went great and the playwrite who interviewed me said that I had the job.  Today I was called and told that the director had a friend who was an SM with more experience so I am being bumped down to ASM.  Does this happen alot or something, because it seems very unprofessional to me.