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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Balancing humor and seriousness as a university stage manager

« on: Oct 27, 2015, 10:58 am »

The stage manager is a part of the creative process just as much as everyone else involved, so I think that though they should be strict at some points in order to keep the rehearsal moving, they should allow for there to be moments of laughter or chatter. The key is knowing how long to let people be distracted before moving on. I think that it also helps if the stage manager develops some sort of a relationship with people in the cast, so that it isn't necessarily the SM's first instinct to take on the "dictator" type role.