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Uploaded Forms / Re: !! - Request Forms Here - !!

« on: Mar 14, 2011, 09:27 pm »

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for an update script changes form. The two that are on here are from 2006/2007 and I'm wondering if anyone has any updated forms or methods!

Thanks!

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Tools of the Trade / Re: Favorite Bag

« on: Mar 03, 2011, 04:30 pm »

I'm currently using an EMS wheeley backpack b/c my shoulders have been bothering me (I think I pulled a muscle) but normally I love my Timbuk2 messenger bag. They are customizable both in color and to an extent some features. Mine is 6 years old and looks absolutely brand new. I actually don't remember which style it is, but I think it's a 'commute' bag. At any rate it has the padded laptop sleeve inside.

I bought mine from ebags.com because I wasn't so picky about color (I rock a blue-silver-blue) but on timbuk2.com there are so many possibilities.

I actually sold my first one - it was a size large - because it was TOO BIG! I use a medium now and it's perfect for me and my 14 hour days.

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Self-Promotion / Re: Next stop: dream job!

« on: Mar 02, 2011, 03:36 pm »

Mazel tov!!

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: POLICIES: Giving over paperwork mid-run

« on: Mar 02, 2011, 01:20 pm »

The show is actually a showcase, and after this week it is extending and rolling over to a Transition for 3 weeks.

My reservations that something was going on were valid as it turns out: At our Monday performance, two SMs (one who I know very well and one who I know by name only) were brought in to observe the show and given copies of the script and my paperwork. Both were given offers to PSM or ASM the show (whichever they preferred after watching), despite my having accepted the offer made in writing to me.

I'm working with the business rep for the Transition part of things, and hopefully it will be resolved.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Giving over paperwork

« on: Feb 28, 2011, 12:21 pm »

Well I agree completely. I had a sub in when the request was made, so that made matters even more awkward. The bigger issue is that they replaced an actor before informing him that he had been replaced and haven't told me anything about the matter.

This is also why I am questioning why they have asked for all of my "technical paperwork" for the show.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / POLICIES: Giving over paperwork mid-run

« on: Feb 28, 2011, 09:22 am »

Has anyone been asked to either give your prompt book over to a potential replacement actor (I only have 1 script for blocking and cues) OR been asked to turn over all paperwork regarding running the show to the producers mid-run?
 
I've never been asked either of these things until this weekend, and both concern me, though for different reasons.

Edit to subject-Rebbe

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The Hardline / Rolling Over

« on: Feb 16, 2011, 03:37 pm »

I'm curious if anyone in NYC has worked on a show that has rolled over from a showcase to a Mini?

The show I'm currently working on may be doing that, but I have some reservations about staying on. I do not however have reservations about needed the 3 weeks of health and pension for my 20 weeks, so I'm torn.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / REHEARSAL: Have you ever NOT done daily rehearsal reports?

« on: Jan 24, 2011, 04:23 pm »

A bit of background:

I'm helping a friend out with a show (an AEA Basic Showcase) with a very low budget and very minimal design team. Actually, there is only a set and lighting designer. It's a unit set, with no scene changes at all. Two of the actors are also producers and because of the structure of the play, they are called to every rehearsal. So far, after 9 rehearsals, the only purpose that the rehearsal report has served is to distribute a recap of the daily schedule to the two members of the distribution who are not in rehearsal (the lighting and set designer). I keep track of actor arrivals/departures/breaks on a separate sheet that stays with my book, and that information is repeated daily in the report. There have been no technical notes whatsoever.

According to the showcase code (Rule 10 B): (B) Assemble and maintain the promptbook, which is defined as the accurate playing text of stage business, together with such cue sheets, plots, and daily records, as are necessary for the actual technical and artistic operation of the production.

...which I do keep. There is no special mention of distributing a rehearsal account or report. I don't want to make a blanket statement and say that me doing rehearsal reports are a waste of my time, but so far I'm just sending blank reports with the actor's arrival info, etc. and that's it.

So I was wondering, has anyone ever been in a situation where distributing a daily report didn't seem like a necessity? Have you ever worked on a production where you did not send a daily report?

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Sign-in Sheet for Rehearsals

« on: Jan 19, 2011, 05:54 pm »

The one time I had an actor ask me about this, it was on a four person show and he had just come from a season with our own Matthew Shiner as PSM, so apparently his good call board habit really did stick  .

Obviously my actor must have worked with Mr. Shiner, as he was adamant that the sign in sheet was a necessary component to rehearsal. I'll have to make one, or else he'll start signing the door out of habit!

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Sign-in Sheet for Rehearsals

« on: Jan 19, 2011, 02:38 pm »

This cast is 5 actors, who are all on stage for the whole show. Basically all 5 are called at the same time, or only one is called for 1/2 the day and then released and a 2nd actor called for the next part of the day.

Also - we're in a rental space, so we don't have access to our room until the rehearsal is scheduled to start, with no green room or anything, we just stand around in the lobby if we're early, so it's kind of a 'you're there or you're not' situation.

I'm not opposed to the idea of the sheet, I've just never used one in a rehearsal setting until tech.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / REHEARSAL: Sign-in Sheet for Rehearsals

« on: Jan 19, 2011, 01:08 pm »

Just curious if anyone has done (or currently uses) a sign in sheet for rehearsals?

I have never used one but an actor brought it up today, so I thought I'd see who might.

Added tag to subject line-Rebbe

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The Hardline / Re: Creating Contracts

« on: Jan 12, 2011, 03:12 pm »

You're talking about work agreements, correct? Job responsibilities and the like for a particular person or position. If that's the case, I would be happy to email a sample work agreement that I signed before I signed my AEA contract for reference. I may even have more than one type of these agreements. PM me your email if you'd like.

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The Green Room / Re: Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark

« on: Dec 21, 2010, 08:21 pm »

Just curious as to how the Times came to have this video - the caption states it's a reader video.

Doesn't diminish the injury at all. Or the issues. Just an observation.

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The Green Room / Re: Rehearsals are Like Relationships

« on: Nov 14, 2010, 10:19 pm »

The Walk of Shame: I thought doing this show/project was a good idea when I agreed to it, but I felt dirty afterwards.

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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: PROMPT SCRIPT: Receiving a Mess

« on: Nov 06, 2010, 09:34 am »

I believe, and I may be wrong or misunderstanding here, that the previous SM's book is not for you to call or work from but to use as a point of reference. Even with a remount, things sometime change and it's a wise idea to have your own paperwork.