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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Re: ESCRIPTS: Post your requests for electronic scripts here!

« on: Jul 30, 2011, 05:08 pm »

Hey guys! Does any have an e-copy of Once Upon a Mattress? THANKS!

Email: melaniezastrow@gmail.com

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Labtop vs. Pencil and Script/Notepad

« on: Jun 05, 2011, 05:30 pm »

The only thing that I try to use a laptop for in rehearsal is do rehearsal reports. I transferred over to using the laptop sparingly, but I've noticed if i don't at least have it with me to do things during breaks. I end up with 70 pages on notes that I then have to transfer to all the different places things have to go. I know of plenty of theaters that want everything to be emailed, it just seems to me a more efficient use of time to type quietly a little quick note directly into an email you send at the end of the rehearsal than spending who knows how long looking through all your notes to make sure that you've got something. The downside of technology is that in this day and age, it's so easy to get distracted. I don't know how many times I've been in the theater and actors or others miss something because they were on Facebook, texting, or playing Angry Birds. I find it happens more with a younger crowd.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Student Stage Manager's Challenge #3: SMs Everywhere

« on: Jul 08, 2008, 03:53 pm »

I actually just went out on call with a pyro-technician to see some behind-the-scenes stuff at a minor league  baseball game. There happened to be a stage manager there for the game, for the things that went on between the innings. It was kind of amazing to watch him work, he actually had only moments to get everything done that he needed to get done to make things run flawlessly.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: The Ultimate Decision

« on: Jun 08, 2008, 04:23 pm »

I'm surprised by how many people had this position fall into their laps - especially when, at least in my opinion, it takes a certain kind of person so SM. I didn't get into Stage Management until my junior year in college. My college always put on these amazing productions with these truly amazing sets....I was enthralled so I went into the TD's office and asked if I could work on a show as something...anything. He offered me the Stage Management position on the show Comedy of Errors. It sort of just went from there....in order to get my work done that I needed to do I would have to show up early and stay late, and I started to figure out techniques that worked for me to make my time less crazy...turns out these things that I had been doing was stepping it up a notch, and no one expected those things of me, but our show went off amazingly, and I was hooked. Since that time, I've SMed for countless shows, free-lanced all over, and worked with some of the most amazing companies in the Twin Cities - and although I did add a minor in theatre to my already full schedule. The extra time is priceless to me. I've made a complete turn around in the last year...I went from a History Major with and English Minor to a History Major with a double minor in English and Theatre with an emphasis is Stage Management...and I plan to happily do the SM for as long as I am able.