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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: TERMS YOU NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE

« on: Dec 19, 2012, 03:29 pm »

Another one that I actually love: a rehearsal prop is a doofer. As in, it's not the real thing, but it'll doofer the time being.

If I worked in film, I would use "doofer" and "gaffer" in the same sentence. Often.

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The Green Room / Re: 'Virginia Woolf' Stage Manager's Report

« on: Dec 19, 2012, 03:28 pm »

Thanks for that. Interesting to read. I like the fourth one, where he talks about specificity, and David Mamet's extra ellipses. Something I remember learning, but can always use a reminder of.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 6: Headset vs Cell Phone

« on: Dec 18, 2012, 07:46 pm »

Seriously? Now I have to advocate for cell phones (currently 4-1 headset)??!!

I'm still fuming over the multi tool injustice. I'mma pull a Koch Brothers and flood this race later on if I have to.

I'm with you nick...bring down big photocopy...

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The Green Room / Re: Hell in a Handbag (A Game for Stage Managers)

« on: Dec 18, 2012, 07:21 pm »

Um, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNXj-SCx5dY#t=02m35s

But is the Producer willing to quit and replace himself with Bialystock and Bloom? Can we get him a nice severance package?


NEW NOTE: Lois will shave Connie's head completely, in full view of the audience, during the hair salon scene at the end of Act 1.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 18, 2012, 06:43 pm »

H-E-Double Hockey Sticks!

You are wrong about everything, but this was FUNNY. 

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 18, 2012, 01:05 pm »

Yes, but then you're relying on two pieces of technology instead of one. Ninety-nine percent of the time, if something goes wrong with the photocopier, the fix is pretty simple: put paper in, or pull paper out. Ninety-nine percent of the time, if something goes wrong with my computer/scanner, I'm left standing there like .

Plus, most photocopiers come with a printer included.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 18, 2012, 10:18 am »

LCSM: You vote against your own interests and it is sad. I am filing paperwork to have the YSMPC registered as a hate group.

Shame you're required to submit three copies, in person, to the closest government office. And a copy of your passport OR a copy of your birth certificate along with a copy of one piece of government-issued photo identification.

Copy your passport out longhand? I don't think so.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: University, Round 5: Binder vs Scale Rule

« on: Dec 17, 2012, 11:34 pm »

How did Scale Rule even get five votes?

No, seriously. What's the rationale?

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 17, 2012, 11:01 pm »

As Founding Member and President of the Canadian Chapter of the political organization Young Stage Managers for the Photocopier, I have this to say:

When I was in high school, I was trapped in an environment where access to the Photocopier was by pass-code only. As such, I was denied a great part of the stage management experience - an experience which every young Stage Manager has the right to live in full. My first true encounter with a Photocopier did not occur until I attended university. When my stage management mentor went on maternity leave, did she leave me with her Multitool? No, my friends, she did not. She left me her photocopy code. From that moment on, I knew my stage management would never be the same. For this great gift, I thank my mentor every day.

I live in Canada. We are a great country. A country of ice rinks. A country of husky puppies (seriously cute). A country of free health care. And like free health care (not to mention the huskies), photocopies are something we can - indeed, we should! - be proud of.

Let all the children photocopy! Let them distribute new script pages far and wide! Let us bring toner cartridges to every home in North America! Hell, every home in the world!

YSMPC! YOUNG STAGE MANAGERS PHOTOCOPY!

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 17, 2012, 11:03 am »

Also, If you misplace a multitool, you go to a local hardware store to replace it. To replace a photocopier you needed a fundraising campaign and a grant in order to afford it.

Yes, but I'd like to see you try to misplace a photocopier. Go on, try.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Regional Round 5: Multitool vs Photocopier

« on: Dec 16, 2012, 04:02 pm »

(gets on soapbox)

That is the true genius of America, a faith -- a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on miracles of copying; that we can tuck in our children at night and know that they can wake up in the morning and make photocopies; that we can say what we think, print what we think, copy what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door; that we can have an idea and copy that idea without paying a bribe; that we can participate in the photocopy process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted.

*slow applause*
*single tear down the cheek*

Cue photo montage: Matthew in front of a flag, Matthew holding a baby, Matthew looking tired on a campaign bus, Matthew addressing cheering crows, Matthew thanking Staples as the sponsor of his campaign...

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Commercial, Round 4: Highlighter vs Hammer

« on: Dec 13, 2012, 11:02 pm »

Some days I just want to hammer stuff. BANG. BANG. BANG. BANG.

I never feel the same way about my highlighter. ("Squinch. Squinch. Squinch. Squinch."?)

Seriously? I find highlighting to be dead satisfying. You have a page with tons of stuff on it, and you get to go through and separate all the important stuff. Super fast.

Plus, it doesn't hurt if my highlighter-aim is slightly off.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Commercial, Round 4: Highlighter vs Hammer

« on: Dec 11, 2012, 06:34 pm »

There are some days when I would sure like to see my laptop go up against a hammer.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: University, Round 4: Stopwatch vs Call Button

« on: Dec 11, 2012, 06:27 pm »

In a pinch it can be used as a substitute for a cue light on the rail.

...for stage managers whose ASMs and Board Ops don't have a chronic case of Oops-I-Was-Trying-To-Press-The-Talk-Button. I swear, there's one on every show.

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December Madness I: 2012 / Re: Community, Round 4: Glow Tape vs Paper

« on: Dec 11, 2012, 06:23 pm »

I bet Paper is going all the way. Think of all the items in our bracket that are made to be used with paper, or that would be useless without it.

I wonder how many years back we would have to go before paper took the board unanimously.