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Tools of the Trade / Re: Useful iPhone apps?

« on: Apr 15, 2014, 01:23 am »

These are a few of the apps that I "can't live without"

Personal:

• Facebook - Need I say more...
• LinkedIn - I have been using LinkedIn for a few years building and networking
• FourSquare - I'm not as addicted to this one as when I first bought it, but I like it much better than the Facebook check-in
• Starbucks - Can a stage manager live without coffee? I can easily manage and reload my Starbucks card on it.
• Urbanspoon and OpenTable - These are indispensable when we are traveling, especially since my partner and I both have to be gluten-free
• QuizUp - This one is a recent addiction. Play against random players or challenge your Facebook friends in multiple categories. I am killing it on the Musical Theatre and Shakespeare quizzes.

Stage Management/Theatre:

• ShowTool SM https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/showtool-sm/id352212001?mt=8 - I really do like this one. I know, I know. I can use the stopwatch. But with a little bit of setup beforehand, ShowTool SM is much more intuitive for me. Only thing I have to remember to do is to hit the next button.
• SayBallet https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sayballet/id333408014?mt=8 - I am not a dancer. No theatre has enough insurance to cover me trying to dance. This handy app has all the dance terminology--many with quick videos of the steps.
• Scene Partner https://www.scenepartnerapp.com/ - This is a great app for learning lines. It's free to the actor. The cost is to the theatre/production company, which is renting or purchasing the scripts. Creating a library key (password) for the production and distributing to the actors, the actors can then view, listen to and record their lines. There are so many options for how the actors can rehearse their lines. The only draw back is that the company needs to increase their script library. The theatre I am currently working with found that for next season the only scripts they had available were The Addams Family and Anything Goes. They didn't have The Heiress, Of Mice and Men, The Philadelphia Story or Harvey--maybe not overly done shows, but certainly fairly common.
• IBDB, Broadway.com and TheatreMania - I really like these companion apps to the websites.
• Musicnotes Sheet Music Viewer https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/musicnotes-sheet-music-viewer/id369741034?mt=8 - Great little companion app the website.