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The Hardline / CAEA Apprenticeships

« on: Dec 28, 2008, 02:31 pm »

Greetings all,

I've been working as a tech at a mid-sized road house for the past few months and am starting to look at moving into stage management.  I'm starting to pick up small SM gigs of the community/amateur/semi-pro variety and am looking towards starting to pick up my Apprentice SM credits (its a Canadian thing) in the next 6-12 months.  To get a better sense of the lay of the land, I've been digging through old E-Drive SM postings when I came across something this morning that stuck out at me.  An Apprentice SM posting specifically mentioned a stipend ($1100 for a 3.5 week contract).  I found this odd because no other postings made any mention of wages, salary, or stipends.  So my questions are these:

Are CAEA Apprentice SMs paid?  If so, what are the general ballparks?  If you've been a CAEA Apprentice, what were your experiences? 

As an apprentice, I wasn't expecting to be well paid by any stretch of the imagination.  But something more than nothing is fairly key to someone paying student loans, etc.

Thanks in advance,

Ted

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SMNetwork Archives / Re: SM: the musical

« on: Dec 16, 2008, 04:32 pm »

Riggers repelling down the proscenium?  Dancing carps?  Ohhhh ... "The Circular Saw Ballet!"

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The Hardline / Re: MILWAUKEE SHAKESPEARE CLOSING ITS DOORS

« on: Dec 16, 2008, 02:29 pm »

And all of the theatrical productions turning into movies is definitely not helping either.  I'm sure the film version of Doubt will be good but as more plays go to film - audiences will stop seeing it as necessary to see the live version when they can own the DVD at home.

That isnot always the case, although for musicals, Chicago, Rent and Mama Mia all saw ticket sales go up after the movie came out; people oddly like the familiar.

Audiences know what they like, and they like what they know.  Holds true for theatre, opera, classical music ... pretty much everything.

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SMNetwork Archives / SM: the musical

« on: Dec 15, 2008, 10:00 pm »

Hows this for a plot?  An ASM arrives from a small midwestern repertory theatre and tries to make it big on Broadway.  In spite of some initial set backs, one of the big shot SMs is sidelined and our spunky would-be SM gets his/her chance at the big leagues and knocks it out of the park! 


Darn!  Thats 42nd Street. 

Edited by nmno for content.

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The Hardline / Re: MILWAUKEE SHAKESPEARE CLOSING ITS DOORS

« on: Dec 15, 2008, 06:04 pm »

Ballet British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) is on the brink of going under.    Two weeks ago everyone was laid off and the season canceled until an anonymous donor pitched in $42,000 which is enough to keep the company open for a run of The Nutcracker after Xmas.  Beyond that, things aren't looking good.