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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Humor: Stage Managing the World

« on: Dec 17, 2011, 03:47 pm »

At my day job, because we don't have clocks easily visible and we all have to be finished by five o' clock, the secretary always calls out a ten minute warning. My co-workers inform me that I always reply with, "Thank you ten." I have no memory of this.

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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Student SM Challenge #12+1: The old switcheroo

« on: Apr 11, 2011, 12:13 am »

My first inclination, if possible, would be to replace the lead actor with someone who already knows the show (in some shows, there's always that chorus member that has half of everyone else's lines memorized anyways, or an available asm might work), then replace that actor with the new guy. That being said, not every show has someone that you can bump up. In that case, I would call in the actors he has the most scenes with them, and run them as many times as possible, focusing on cues and specific blocking, on the assumption that he'll be able to have a script on stage (I thought of some kind of book originally, but I like the black binder idea better.) I never would've thought of a pre-show announcement, but now I will if this every happens!

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The Green Room / Re: Best one-liner from a performance report

« on: Apr 01, 2011, 10:42 pm »

One-liners from my last production ranged from our director informing us that: "Shakespeare is telling us to kick him in the crotch!" to: Actress: "Line?" Prompter: "And we all knew our lines." Actress: "(swearing)." Other favorites include: "I couldn't find [actress's] lips for the life of me!" and "What happened to [actor]? Probably dingos."

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The Green Room / Re: Do you add a personal touch to your booth?

« on: Apr 01, 2011, 10:16 pm »

Because I'm still in college, I only get to be in the booth during tech and performances, and I work in a lot of different venues, so I don't do a whole lot. I do, however, have a small blue stuffed lizard with magnetic paws that was given to me by my best friend, that lives wherever I do when I run a show. His name is Cue, and every new crew I work with learns pretty quick that if they come pet Cue before the show, they will have better luck.