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Stage Management: Plays & Musicals / Re: Do you call from house or backstage?

« on: Aug 28, 2008, 10:49 pm »

Personally I'd always call from backstage,  I've never had the choice but if i did i'd do backstage.  I'm confident in the sound and light techs and if there are any issues i know the boards better than the ones actually working at them and i can tell them what to do over a headset, which is another reason why backstage works i'm not sure how many theatres have headsets so the technicians can communicate.  But being backstage I think is much better because, like i said the booth is easy to run off headset, and more problems arise backstage you can deal with things immediatly,  I do have an amazing ASM but having two people back there it is easier to deal with the actors that are annoying.  Also i'm a high school SM so it all depends on how many of your fellow class mates you can get into the show to help with tech.  Many times you don't have anyone able to run the fly rail.  So i kinda do a double job in there.  so overall i'd say backstage always