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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: The Ultimate Decision
« on: Oct 25, 2006, 04:02 pm »
I have been interested in technical theatre ever since I went to a professional production of The Nutcracker, and was more curious and interested about what was going on backstage then being intrigued with the performers. Of course, then, I was 5 yeares old, and didn't yet know what a stage manager was, but that experience "set the stage" for what I was going to choose as my life's passion.
I did not participate in theatre in high school, however, because I was involved with the orchestra, and didn't have time for theatre.
When I was performing in my first play, in my third semester of college, I casually mentioned to the ASM that I wanted to be a stage manager. She laughed and said, "No, you don't." I didn't let that stop me, however; I researched the job of a stage manager, and in my first semester at the school I transferred to the next year, I mentioned to the theatre department director that I was interested in stage managing. He said that I couldn't stage manage until I took the technical theatre class, but he let me be an ASM for the summer production. For the very next show after that, I was asked to be a SM. I found that I love leading, guiding, "directing", and running the show, and I knew, after the first show, that it was my passion in theatre.
I did not participate in theatre in high school, however, because I was involved with the orchestra, and didn't have time for theatre.
When I was performing in my first play, in my third semester of college, I casually mentioned to the ASM that I wanted to be a stage manager. She laughed and said, "No, you don't." I didn't let that stop me, however; I researched the job of a stage manager, and in my first semester at the school I transferred to the next year, I mentioned to the theatre department director that I was interested in stage managing. He said that I couldn't stage manage until I took the technical theatre class, but he let me be an ASM for the summer production. For the very next show after that, I was asked to be a SM. I found that I love leading, guiding, "directing", and running the show, and I knew, after the first show, that it was my passion in theatre.